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With AI advancing quickly, keeping up can be challenging. This blog post, inspired by our recent webinar with Micaela Dixon, explores the basics of AI, its role in UX design, and strategies for maintaining a people-centered approach when designing for AI.
Our design team has created the only UX Survival Guide you’ll ever need! As designers and researchers, we’re up against unique challenges in our day-to-day work. Learn important skills like managing project timelines, advocating for UX, navigating your career, and more.
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.
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.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate guide to understanding service design! We’re going back to the basics, explaining what service design is, how it shows up in your day-to-day life, the tiers of design, and five must-have skills for service designers. Plus, read all the way through for a helpful service design blueprint example!
Many UX Designers and Researchers thrive in remote work environments, enjoying various benefits such as flexibility and the ability to work from anywhere. In this post, you will learn how to optimize your remote work environment, understand why community building is essential, and discover how to maximize the potential of design communities to advance your UX career.
As designers and researchers, we are pros at thinking ahead— and that means looking ahead to any upcoming project risks. In today’s post, you’ll learn how to proactively plan for project risks using a risk mitigation strategy and gain insight into common risks in UX and design research.
Post-pandemic, we’re seeing a shift from purely virtual research to a resurgence in the popularity of in-person observations. In this post, we’re highlighting the challenges posed by virtual research and some key reasons why in-person observations should stay in our repertoire as design researchers. Plus, get our tips for convincing stakeholders to invest in in-person observations!
Leaders are usually being pulled in a million directions on a day-to-day basis, and that’s true now more than ever. So what’s the key to effectively steering teams toward success in this fast-paced and constantly changing climate? More and more leaders are turning to values-based leadership approaches to drive results and inspire innovation. Read all about values-based leadership in this post.
Explore our list of top-rated UX, service design, HCD, and research conferences happening both virtually and in person in 2024!
As designers and researchers, disagreement and conflict are common in the workplace! Today’s post explores conflict in UX and service design, how work environments affect communication, and provides tools for embracing conflict in design and research.
Dive into our very own Sara Fortier’s book — a practical guide to design research, packed with real stories, tools, and strategies to turn data and insights into meaningful business impact.
Join us for hands-on workshops, thought-provoking talks, and networking events that strengthen our UX community and push human-centered design forward.
With AI advancing quickly, keeping up can be challenging. This blog post, inspired by our recent webinar with Micaela Dixon, explores the basics of AI, its role in UX design, and strategies for maintaining a people-centered approach when designing for AI.
With AI advancing quickly, keeping up can be challenging. This blog post, inspired by our recent webinar with Micaela Dixon, explores the basics of AI, its role in UX design, and strategies for maintaining a people-centered approach when designing for AI.
With AI advancing quickly, keeping up can be challenging. This blog post, inspired by our recent webinar with Micaela Dixon, explores the basics of AI, its role in UX design, and strategies for maintaining a people-centered approach when designing for AI.