Topic: Management

Talking To Your Boss
About Lean UX

What You’ll Learn

• Communicate the value of continuous development techniques like Lean UX to your boss
• Learn how Lean UX, Agile, and other techniques are revolutionizing and disrupting business production
• Understand the eight major obstacles for Lean UX teams, and how to avoid them

Preventing the Swoop-and-Poop with Successful Stakeholder Engagement

What You’ll Learn

• Identify if your approach is contributing to bad stakeholder behavior
• Extract the best information from stakeholders early in the process
• Build your interviewing and communication skills to get to the heart of what they want, and what you need to do to deliver it
• Engage stakeholders throughout the project to get the feedback you need and help them feel their contribution is important
• Adjust your stakeholder approach based on the organizational culture in which they work

Sharing our Stories: Designing and Reviewing UX Portfolios

What You’ll Learn

• Discover how designing a UX portfolio can actually change your life
• Represent your experience and value
• Overcome common constraints in telling your story
• Know what to look for when you conduct a portfolio review

Teaching UX

What You’ll Learn

• Identify potential UX talent
• Find compelling UX projects
• Leverage the educational power of usability testing
• Learn effective mentoring skills

Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design

In Rise of the DEO, Maria Giudice and her coauthor explore the intersection of creativity and business smarts. They look at how and why this unlikely coupling produces leaders capable of solving our increasingly complex business problems.

At Warm Gun, Maria will lead a conversation that focuses on techniques, tactics, and intuitions that create stronger leaders. She’ll untangle the characteristics and qualities that distinguish great creative leaders. She’ll introduce you to today’s role models and rule breakers. Join us to uncover your own skills to build, revive, or reinvent the next generation of great companies.
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Hold Meetings That Aren't Excruciating

What You’ll Learn

• A starter kit to run better meetings about UX, design, research, and more
• Methods for collaborating with on-site and distributed teams
• Techniques to facilitate creative discussions and record emerging themes
• Fun experiments that play off how our brains work with visuals

Get More From User Research

What You’ll Learn

• A non-awkward process for preparing and involving your teammates
• Tools like journey maps to get user insights without needing direct answers
• A method for translating those insights to design priorities
• Techniques for communicating your research findings effectively

Do Great Work from Anywhere

What You’ll Learn

• A painless workflow for remote designers and usability engineers
• Techniques for empowering team members, wherever they are
• Corporate philosophies that form a solid foundation for remote cultures
• Processes that encourage creativity without constricting freedom

Your Toughest Design Challenge

What You’ll Learn

• Levers you can use to influence change—and how to identify which ones to pull
• Tools to help individuals and high-level stakeholders start implementing change
• Identifying effective approaches that will work in your unique culture
• Ways to approach individual communication to more effectively change minds

Kicking Off Projects Right

What You’ll Learn

• Put together an effective kickoff workshop.
• Get your team working together quickly with easy facilitator techniques.
• Become a compelling agent of change for your team.
• Beat down the defeatism and fear that comes from traditional kickoff meetings.