Smart Design is the more productive innovation strategy for products and organizations. Based on Design Thinking, Array Designs agency from San Mateo, CA brings us a Workshop on how to become a strategic UX designer.
How Design Thinking will fix Design ThinkingBert Bräutigam
Design Thinking faces criticism for its lacking integration with business and compatibility with market reality. Does Design Thinking have to be reinvented or even replaced?
DesignOps Team-of-One: Navigating Your First YearJackie Ajoux
Design operations is not for the faint of heart. In many ways, design operations for the team-of-one is a choose-your-own-adventure game; it’s essential to choose your own path in this new discipline. In this session, you will learn about the challenges encountered, and lessons learned from the perspective of a single-player design operations manager at EA, one of the largest gaming companies in the world. You’ll walk away from this talk with a strategy guide on how to navigate design operations in your organization, and the methods and best practices you can use to be a resilient team-of-one.
Bruce McCarthy "Product culture eats Execution Culture" Productized19Productized
What is it that Dollar Shave Club has that Gillette has lost? Serial Entrepreneur Bruce McCarthy will lead an interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age.
Product culture is fundamentally different than execution culture. Product Culture is not a process or a tool. It is a shared mindset about why we are in business and how we go about things. Rather than focus on design thinking, agile methodologies, DevOps, or Lean, product-focused organizations focus on continuously developing, testing, and delivering products of value to customers using whatever tools work best for them.
Competitors and employees alike are leaving companies with weak product cultures behind. Bruce will tell some horror stories and also some hopeful ones that show change is possible. He’ll ask you for your stories, too. Let’s stop talking about process and tools and start talking about culture.
Here is a video of me delivering this talk at the Business of Software conference in London in September 2018.
Keynote given on May 30 @ DesignOps Global Conference.
In the world of design and Design Operations, leaders struggle to create insight into the success level of their design teams so that appropriate resources can be attained.
How Design Thinking will fix Design ThinkingBert Bräutigam
Design Thinking faces criticism for its lacking integration with business and compatibility with market reality. Does Design Thinking have to be reinvented or even replaced?
DesignOps Team-of-One: Navigating Your First YearJackie Ajoux
Design operations is not for the faint of heart. In many ways, design operations for the team-of-one is a choose-your-own-adventure game; it’s essential to choose your own path in this new discipline. In this session, you will learn about the challenges encountered, and lessons learned from the perspective of a single-player design operations manager at EA, one of the largest gaming companies in the world. You’ll walk away from this talk with a strategy guide on how to navigate design operations in your organization, and the methods and best practices you can use to be a resilient team-of-one.
Bruce McCarthy "Product culture eats Execution Culture" Productized19Productized
What is it that Dollar Shave Club has that Gillette has lost? Serial Entrepreneur Bruce McCarthy will lead an interactive discussion on how successful product-focused organizations think and act differently every day in the networked age.
Product culture is fundamentally different than execution culture. Product Culture is not a process or a tool. It is a shared mindset about why we are in business and how we go about things. Rather than focus on design thinking, agile methodologies, DevOps, or Lean, product-focused organizations focus on continuously developing, testing, and delivering products of value to customers using whatever tools work best for them.
Competitors and employees alike are leaving companies with weak product cultures behind. Bruce will tell some horror stories and also some hopeful ones that show change is possible. He’ll ask you for your stories, too. Let’s stop talking about process and tools and start talking about culture.
Here is a video of me delivering this talk at the Business of Software conference in London in September 2018.
Keynote given on May 30 @ DesignOps Global Conference.
In the world of design and Design Operations, leaders struggle to create insight into the success level of their design teams so that appropriate resources can be attained.
Measuring & Evaluating Your DesignOps PracticeDave Malouf
This premiere version of this talk was given at WAQ in Quebec City on April 10, 2019.
It has a brief introduction to DesignOps and then goes into how to measure and understand value of designOps to the team and business.
MURAL Webinar: How Design Sprints Can Be Reformatted For Any Workshop/MeetingMURAL
In this webinar, Brittni Bowering (Head of Media, AJ&Smart) will explore how you can take the design sprint process and easily reformat it in a way that helps you run the best meetings and workshops of your career, AND get buy-in from your team to adopt this way of working - by taking the core design sprint exercises and principles to get things done faster, better & happier!
What does your job title really mean? / Ben Fausone & Yannic ScheffelService Experience Camp
This is Ben Fausone & Yannic Scheffel’s presentation from Service Experience Camp 2016 on What does your job title really mean, held on Day 1 in Raum 5.
Title: Achieving a balanced team. Can Service Design and Product Management play nicely?
Presented at the Leading the Product conference in Melbourne 2017
Making ourselves redundant: Delivering impact by building design capabilities...Service Experience Camp
This is Simone Carrier’s key talk from Service Experience Camp 2016 on Delivering impact by building design capabilities, held on Day 2 on the big stage.
This talk addresses tactical ways to improve the design manager's relationship with her directs, influence other teams, and rethink hiring practices to create an equitable, inclusive organization.
I delivered this talk at Chicago Camps' Prototypes Process and Play Conference on August 12 2016.
It used to take companies weeks to brainstorm, write specs, publish RFPs, and get started on projects. With a design sprint, it’s possible to accomplish all that—plus sketching, prototyping, and validating big ideas—in just 5 days.
Sound too good to be true? We partnered with InVision to help teams learn how exactly to run their own design sprint. Follow these tips and by the end of your sprint, you’ll have live, targeted customer validation so you know exactly what to prioritize in your product roadmap.
Design thinking in HR : an introduction to design thinking, Presented by Remco Lenstra, as a prelude to the introduction of "Return on Experience" toolset developed by DIXON drive aided By AMS, presented at TEC (talent enablement conference) 2019 at meet district (Ghelamco arena) Ghent
This is the second part of my presentation at the DesignOps Meetup Helsinki on 30th of August 2018.
Read more: https://medium.com/@sonjakrogius/scaling-design-with-a-design-system-89e52efff1c8
Shaping and implementing a DesignOps functionMatt Gottschalk
Matt Gottschalk and Ben Franck, both UX & DesignOps Managers at Centrica, will share the journey they have been on since setting up their DesignOps function at the beginning of 2018. They will discuss the types of problems that come with managing and supporting a de-centralised design team of 40+ User Experience designers, how they defined the role and how having a design operations function enabled them to streamline processes and drive efficiency and consistency.
GHC slides for dare to disrupt the numbersAliza Carpio
These are slides to support the talk with Sonia May-Patlan and Aliza Carpio at Grace Hopper 2021. The title is "Dare to Disrupt the Numbers: Design Open Source for Inclusivity". These slides are specific to the design thinking portion of the talk
You'll learn:
- How to design ahead of development without chaos
- How to conduct user research within Agile
- How to deliver consistent UX on tight timelines
1. Your way to a strategic role as a product leader While a product manager’s role should be strategic, in practice, it’s often a tactical one, with a focus on execution and delivering a set of features.
2. Reflect on your role It’s easy to feel stuck in the role of a backlog administrator instead of a product leader. How do you take on a more strategic role?
3. Spread your influence In this Masterclass, you’ll learn how to align teams by crafting a clear vision and to spread your influence and way of thinking across your organization.
4. Tools to help you Product managers and senior product leaders will gain tools to craft a compelling vision and help others internalize your vision, and use it in everyday decision-making. Senior leaders who have developed product intuition through years of hard lessons will gain communication tools to help others develop an intuition for making decisions like you would.
5. And many more strategies You’ll walk away with practical techniques to level up and elevate your role as you build successful, world-changing products.
Costanoa Expert Series: What Business Leaders Should Know About Design- Order 4Costanoa Ventures
What do you measure to make sure your user experience improvements move the needle for your product and go to market strategies? How do you invest in UX wisely?
Audrey Crane from DesignMap presents the last of the four orders of design: Value, Vision, and Hiring.
Measuring & Evaluating Your DesignOps PracticeDave Malouf
This premiere version of this talk was given at WAQ in Quebec City on April 10, 2019.
It has a brief introduction to DesignOps and then goes into how to measure and understand value of designOps to the team and business.
MURAL Webinar: How Design Sprints Can Be Reformatted For Any Workshop/MeetingMURAL
In this webinar, Brittni Bowering (Head of Media, AJ&Smart) will explore how you can take the design sprint process and easily reformat it in a way that helps you run the best meetings and workshops of your career, AND get buy-in from your team to adopt this way of working - by taking the core design sprint exercises and principles to get things done faster, better & happier!
What does your job title really mean? / Ben Fausone & Yannic ScheffelService Experience Camp
This is Ben Fausone & Yannic Scheffel’s presentation from Service Experience Camp 2016 on What does your job title really mean, held on Day 1 in Raum 5.
Title: Achieving a balanced team. Can Service Design and Product Management play nicely?
Presented at the Leading the Product conference in Melbourne 2017
Making ourselves redundant: Delivering impact by building design capabilities...Service Experience Camp
This is Simone Carrier’s key talk from Service Experience Camp 2016 on Delivering impact by building design capabilities, held on Day 2 on the big stage.
This talk addresses tactical ways to improve the design manager's relationship with her directs, influence other teams, and rethink hiring practices to create an equitable, inclusive organization.
I delivered this talk at Chicago Camps' Prototypes Process and Play Conference on August 12 2016.
It used to take companies weeks to brainstorm, write specs, publish RFPs, and get started on projects. With a design sprint, it’s possible to accomplish all that—plus sketching, prototyping, and validating big ideas—in just 5 days.
Sound too good to be true? We partnered with InVision to help teams learn how exactly to run their own design sprint. Follow these tips and by the end of your sprint, you’ll have live, targeted customer validation so you know exactly what to prioritize in your product roadmap.
Design thinking in HR : an introduction to design thinking, Presented by Remco Lenstra, as a prelude to the introduction of "Return on Experience" toolset developed by DIXON drive aided By AMS, presented at TEC (talent enablement conference) 2019 at meet district (Ghelamco arena) Ghent
This is the second part of my presentation at the DesignOps Meetup Helsinki on 30th of August 2018.
Read more: https://medium.com/@sonjakrogius/scaling-design-with-a-design-system-89e52efff1c8
Shaping and implementing a DesignOps functionMatt Gottschalk
Matt Gottschalk and Ben Franck, both UX & DesignOps Managers at Centrica, will share the journey they have been on since setting up their DesignOps function at the beginning of 2018. They will discuss the types of problems that come with managing and supporting a de-centralised design team of 40+ User Experience designers, how they defined the role and how having a design operations function enabled them to streamline processes and drive efficiency and consistency.
GHC slides for dare to disrupt the numbersAliza Carpio
These are slides to support the talk with Sonia May-Patlan and Aliza Carpio at Grace Hopper 2021. The title is "Dare to Disrupt the Numbers: Design Open Source for Inclusivity". These slides are specific to the design thinking portion of the talk
You'll learn:
- How to design ahead of development without chaos
- How to conduct user research within Agile
- How to deliver consistent UX on tight timelines
1. Your way to a strategic role as a product leader While a product manager’s role should be strategic, in practice, it’s often a tactical one, with a focus on execution and delivering a set of features.
2. Reflect on your role It’s easy to feel stuck in the role of a backlog administrator instead of a product leader. How do you take on a more strategic role?
3. Spread your influence In this Masterclass, you’ll learn how to align teams by crafting a clear vision and to spread your influence and way of thinking across your organization.
4. Tools to help you Product managers and senior product leaders will gain tools to craft a compelling vision and help others internalize your vision, and use it in everyday decision-making. Senior leaders who have developed product intuition through years of hard lessons will gain communication tools to help others develop an intuition for making decisions like you would.
5. And many more strategies You’ll walk away with practical techniques to level up and elevate your role as you build successful, world-changing products.
Costanoa Expert Series: What Business Leaders Should Know About Design- Order 4Costanoa Ventures
What do you measure to make sure your user experience improvements move the needle for your product and go to market strategies? How do you invest in UX wisely?
Audrey Crane from DesignMap presents the last of the four orders of design: Value, Vision, and Hiring.
Treat your career like a design project. A brief overview of a coaching framework and career design workshop that enables managers and employees alike.
Org Design for Design Orgs - The WorkshopPeter Merholz
As the move to establish in-house design teams accelerates, it turns out there’s very little common wisdom on what makes for a successful design organization. Books and presentations focus on process, methods, tools, and outcomes, leaving a gap of knowledge when it comes to organizational and operational matters. This workshop seeks to address this lacuna by shining a light on the unsung activities of actually running a design team, and what works and what doesn’t.
Topics include:
- How a service design mindset shifts standard organizational approaches
- Organizational models for design teams, from centralized to decentralized and back again
- Breadth and depth of skills and strategic thinking
- The 5 Stages of Organisational Evolution
- A New Taxonomy of Design Team Roles
Design + PM = Better Together by Snap! Raise Design DirectorProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to build trust with your Design team and how to pick out your top performers
- Did you know design and Product Management have a lot in common? Learn how to adapt to your resources and delegate responsibilities according to your strengths
- Learn how to use Design to maximize business and customer value through problem statements and building business knowledge in your team
Design Systems: Designing out Waste, Designing in ConsistencyEqual Experts
Design Systems help modern innovative companies build new software quickly without waste and with a consistent look and feel.
They are the single source of truth to allow the teams to design, realise and develop a product.
From our work with Design Systems for Equal Experts' clients we have many learnings to share about benefits and risks and what needs to be overcome to get a system live and adopted.
SPEAKER: David Hawdale. Product and UX person at Equal Experts.
Contact www.equalexperts.com
Contact David: david.hawdale@hawdale-associates.co.uk
I spoke at LA Uncubed to talk about Product Design at Fullscreen. I get into everything from Ideating, research, prototyping, testing & building, and key take aways
Being a Successful User-Centred Product ManagerAndrew Mayfield
This workshop is about building an effective and nimble user centred product team building great products for a global audience. It’s about deciding what a Minimum Viable Product really is and [the hard part:] what to do once you’ve got one. I’ll go behind the scenes at Optimal Workshop to discuss our design and development process, how we handle customer support and how the two are intertwined for the good of our customers.
Design Thinking Certification - MIT ID InnovationPankaj Deshpande
Want to build your career in Design Thinking? Then enroll yourself in MIT ID Innovation's Design Thinking Certification course and get one step closer to creating a better tomorrow.
For more details, visit : https://mitidinnovation.com/recreation/design-thinking-certification-at-mit-id-innovation/
Designing and Driving UX Careers: A Framework for Empowering UX Teams (Ian Sw...Rosenfeld Media
Ian Swinson: "Designing and Driving UX Careers: A Framework for Empowering UX Teams"
Enterprise UX 2016 • June 8, 2016 • San Antonio, TX, USA
http://2016.enterpriseux.net
Presented by Ari Weissman. How do you start from scratch? How do you build and grow a UX team within your organization where none existed?
Many organizations “do UX” in name only. There are people who might have the UX Designer title, but aren’t talking to users, leaving the product or engineering teams to drive the experience. It’s not that these organizations don’t want to be user-driven. It’s just that they don’t know how. That is what I walked into when I started as Director of UX for [my company].
This is the story of my ongoing successes and failures at building a UX practice. It’s not about one decision, but the many strategies you can employ to build, grow, and thrive.
Design Thinking Session by ShahjahanTapadar. Acquire a deep understanding of Design Thinking principles, process and tools. Apply the Design Thinking methodology and tools to generate breakthrough ideas and co-create and improved customer experience journey.
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Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
Expert Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Drafting ServicesResDraft
Whether you’re looking to create a guest house, a rental unit, or a private retreat, our experienced team will design a space that complements your existing home and maximizes your investment. We provide personalized, comprehensive expert accessory dwelling unit (ADU)drafting solutions tailored to your needs, ensuring a seamless process from concept to completion.
Hello everyone! I am thrilled to present my latest portfolio on LinkedIn, marking the culmination of my architectural journey thus far. Over the span of five years, I've been fortunate to acquire a wealth of knowledge under the guidance of esteemed professors and industry mentors. From rigorous academic pursuits to practical engagements, each experience has contributed to my growth and refinement as an architecture student. This portfolio not only showcases my projects but also underscores my attention to detail and to innovative architecture as a profession.
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
2. How do you become the next Apple
or Nike, or Square?
Set of methodologies which change your thinking
3. About Me
Designer and Design Strategist for over 15 years
Specialize in Branding, Innovation, Identity System and
Product Design
AT&T, Microsoft, Apple, Intuit, Bosch International, Yamaha Music
Bombardier …
4. Agenda
Different Aspects of Smart Design
Innovation versus Execution
Look at some of the process & methodologies used in order to create
Smart Design
We’d love to hear from you. What interest’s you in Smart Design
And what are some of the challenges you are encountering?
Introduce some of the classes we are going to conduct in
Smart Design methodologies
10. Team Cross-functional Teams
Core Team Extended Team / Advisors
Product Manager
Lead Engineer
Marketer
Design Lead
Back End EngineerBusiness Analyst
Teen Physiologist
15. Process Prototype
Choose one or two ideas
and start prototyping them.
Prototypes come in a
variety of forms
• Sketches
• Paper Prototype
• Low Fidelity
• High Fidelity
22. Not all designers are the sameTeam
Apple designers for example are a specific
bread of designers with a common
understanding about the quality & meaning
of design
An important aspect when you hire a team.
23. Design as a teamTeam
Traditional
Direction A Direction B
Direction C
Pick one!
Smart
One Team One Direction
31. Smart Design Workshops
As a designer it will change your thinking to become a more
strategic designer and it will give you tools to progress in an
environment which is not necessarily design friendly
Entrepreneurs, it will help you to understand design better
and make better business decisions to accomplish Smart Designed
products. Smart Products = More Revenue
All in all it an incredible amount of fun!
Editor's Notes
How they approach a problem?
Phone company who sells teens texting…
here they hear they need video
The same company
They don’t wait to get feedback from Sales
They conduct ongoing comprehensive research