Resources

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.

Making your Journey Map Actionable and Creating Change: 301

We explore design-thinking and human-centered tools and techniques to ensure that your carefully researched customer journey maps are highly actionable, and that they are communicated across your organization to affect change.

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.

Practical Ways to Apply and Communicate User Personas at Work

In Part 3 of our User Personas series, we discuss how to communicate the importance and value of user personas to your team, stakeholders, and upper management. We demonstrate several key ways that personas can be practically applied to business.

Designing User Personas in 5 Steps

In Part 2 of our blog series, we explore exactly how to craft a set of user and customer personas. Through in-depth research and data analysis, you’ll build and design a set of user groups to inform and finalize a set of targeted personas that will improve how you do business!

Design Research Methods: Diary Study

This week in our Research Methods blog series, we’re explaining the benefits of conducting Diary Studies for your human-centered design and design-thinking projects, to better understand your users’ experiences and motivations over a longer period of time.

Design Research Methods: Observations

This week on the blog, we explore Observations as a key qualitative research methodology in design. We discuss the tools, tips, and techniques that you need to conduct contextual observations and shadowing for your next human-centered design project.