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OKRs for Design Orgs
In a recent Thought Partnership session, a VP Design asked for help in thinking through their team's OKRs
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Craft Your Leadership Plan with These 5 P's
Recently, a head of design shared with me how their UX metrics work was being taken up by their product
quality
Critique is not review, and many other thoughts on an overlooked practice
TL; DR:
Critique and review are different. 🗣️Critique is simply about making the work better. Review is about assessing readiness
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Whither UX Research?
A few years ago, we interviewed Jen Cardello for Finding Our Way, and she shared that her team (UX Research)
design leadership
To Lead Design, You Must Have an Agenda
That Vision Thing
About a year ago, I distilled the conversations Jesse and I had been having with design executives
design leadership
On the (f)utility of design maturity models
Thesis
Design maturity models are oversimplified frameworks that mask the necessary nuance to understand and develop an organization's
design leadership
UX/Design Leaders: Understand the motivation of your peers and stakeholders the same way you do your users and customers
UX/Design leaders often get caught up in their personal missions, their narratives of change and impact, and believe they