No manufacturing in digital products. Time for User Experience Researchers
I was never a great fan of full-fledged detailed plans... maybe because I can die today. Not today It's my birthday -:) Gantt charts (and its cousins) make me sick as well as the task management planning industrial-age approach to managing uncertainty. A few months ago someone told me: "...We are not able to buy that software since you are not going [...]
A UX Researcher needs to drive a culture accountability and flawless execution
2019 has been a great year as I had the luck to work with some brilliant people... and brilliant people... means learning from them. The drive to become the best user researcher I could be lead me to learn some new tricks... (olds dogs can... at least try, to learn new tricks), and I tried to fully understand how accountability [...]
How fast is your User Research strategy?
The need for speed is paramount on fast-paced, fast-growing organizations as your competition is on fire... and so are you. The (ultra)lean agile product team is an interesting case study for this sprinting mindset where speed is everything and long term means a few weeks. Figuring out the place for strategic thinking in this environment is challenging. The strategy is not [...]