7. Do you want to learn something interesting?
Meet specialists from different disciplines?
Be part of an ‘A Team’ that learns by doing?
Make more meaningful experiences for users?
Would doing the above make you happier?
8. If you answered ‘Hell yes!’ to any of those
questions you’d fit right in with the XDs.
9. Not for profit do tank
200+ members
Inter-disciplinary
Specialist
Design-based process
Collaborators in
Berlin, NY, San Fran,
Sydney
15. Because UX design is evolutionary strategy in action
Because using UX design as strategy creates a lean,
mean, value creation machine.
Because it’s better at coping with wicked or very
complex problems.
Alex Barclay’s Guide to Why UX Design Strategy is Best…
17. Prescriptive schools Descriptive schools
Entrepreneurial School
Cognitive School
Cultural School
Learning School
Cultural School
Power School
Configuration School - Mintzberg
Design School – Ansoff
Positioning School - Porter
Planning School
The 2 strategy ‘schools’ (with 10 sub-schools)
19. For me we are homo faber -
makers.
Strategy is a making
process - a pattern of
behaviour where actions are
repeated and ideas and
their expression emerge
over time.
Like species of flora and
fauna, humans and
businesses learn and adapt.
20. Take out:
UX Design is strategy as an evolutionary
process - a pattern of behaviour based on
making, learning and adaptation.
27. What if we could re-imagine what a
loyalty scheme is?
What if we could create something
different and powerful for the
Peckham Refreshment Rooms?
What would it look and feel like?
What would a success look like?
Are we asking the right questions?
Understand – taking
time over brief
creation
31. Emily
Publishing Assistant, 25 years old, edge rider/ taste maker
Dr. Dre Beats, Major Lazer, Grado, Koss
MTV, South Park
Social online gamer + Playstation
Nike, Pringles, Coca Cola, Monster Energy
"I like taking risks"
Festivals, friends, party-mindedNon-conformist, uses music to feel free
Vybz-Cartel, A-Tak, Jon Gooch
Attitude
Brands
Habits
Lifestyle
Artists
Spotify, Soundcloud
Socially-orientated, likes to share
Super social