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This post dives into why your COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) solution might seem right for you upfront, but may actually be the wrong choice in the long run. We’ll teach you about custom solutions, debunk common myths about COTS and custom solutions, break down when to use a COTS vs. a custom solution, and help to ensure your custom solution is a success.
We sat down to talk to our CEO and Founder of Outwitly, Sara Fortier, about the recent launch of Outwitly Academy. Outwitly Academy’s flagship course, Design Research Mastery, is now accepting its first cohort of registrants.
In this blog post, we’re letting you in on the five most common hiring challenges in UX and service design, plus tactical strategies to avoid them! We cover the UX job market, online course credibility, and our top strategies for finding the UX candidates you need.
Are you investing in building your in-house UX design and research team? If so, you might be struggling to find the right people for the job, or maybe your current team isn’t getting the job done. If this sounds like you, you might be running into some of the most common pitfalls we see when non-UX experts try to recruit and hire into UX. This blog post will help you get started with your UX hiring process and help you avoid obstacles on the way!
Have you experienced challenges in getting your ideas heard by executives, stakeholders, or across departments? We know it can be hard to persist, but the reward is worth the struggle! Learn how to overcome these challenges and champion design within your organization.
We explore how tech-led companies can overcome new challenges and common growing pains in product and feature development by adopting and championing UX best practices among their teams.
To what extent has your business or organization adopted UX research and design? Using a UX Maturity Scale, we help you identify where your organization’s user experience currently stands, and what steps to take in order to level-up.
Does your organization have a clear vision or set of guiding principles? We explore why your company might need North Star Principles to make strategic product/service decisions and to ensure you’re offering the best customer experiences.
How can SaaS companies improve their free trial experience and convert customers? We explore how customer journey mapping and UX research can help SaaS leaders to optimize their free trial periods and boost conversion rates in a competitive digital marketplace.
How effective are user surveys? Are they really adequate to get at customers’ deeper needs and pain paints? We explore why companies should be applying mixed UX research methods alongside user surveys in order to uncover richer insights and make stronger product/service decisions.
We explore why your tech/SaaS company should hire an external firm to conduct UX and human-centered design research with your customers, and help your busy UX team develop its design strategy.
We highlight and explore important steps you can take to integrate UX design and research into your organization to improve business processes, workflows, and customer experience (CX), elements that often get overlooked in rapid digital transformation.