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Outsmart the Ordinary in UX & Service Design

Unconventional insights, tools and resources to fuel your craft and leadership — built by fellow UX practitioners with hard-earned experience in changemaking and digital transformation.

Convincing Executives of the Value of Customer Journey Mapping

Customer journey maps are a highly valuable design tool, but convincing executives to invest in the research required to create them can be challenging. This blog post will teach you how to sell the value of journey mapping to stakeholders so you can transform your organization.

Miro’s New Features and Updates: AI, Intelligent Canvas, and Innovative Workflows

Today’s blog post breaks down Miro’s newest updates, Intelligent Canvas, Composable Workflows, and AI, and shares how these features will improve your workflow and enhance team collaboration.

Config 2024 Recap: Figma’s Newest Features and Updates

This post covers exciting new releases from Config 2024, Figma’s UX conference. See how these updates will optimize the UX and UI design process.

What is Design Thinking? An Introduction

What is design thinking? Why is this term so popular? In part one of this series, we offer concrete definitions and explore further why design thinking is SO valuable for any business seeking to solve complex problems and innovate.

How to Research and Build a Customer Journey Map: 201

Building a customer journey map will enable your company to better understand how customers use your products or services. We outline how to collect research insights and build an effective and highly useful journey map for your organization.

Going Remote: Our Favourite Research & Workshop Tools

We offer our top remote-working strategies, tools, and techniques for conducting user research and design workshops at a distance. Team collaboration and qualitative user research can be completely digital and your projects can move forward in uncertain times!

The Power of Customer Journey Mapping: 101

Customer journey mapping is a powerful design tool that will give you an end-to-end visual picture of your customer experience and the ability to tackle pain points, explore new product or service opportunities, and much more.

How to Facilitate a Great Design Workshop

We explore in detail how to plan for, properly structure, and conduct a variety of design-oriented workshops for client projects that include brainstorming and collaboration, stakeholder alignment, team exercises, design-thinking, and UX design.