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Rachel Krause

Rachel Krause is the Director of Live Training at Nielsen Norman Group. She leads the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of NN/g’s live training offerings. She has expertise in UX strategy, facilitation, storytelling, product design, and stakeholder management, and is passionate about empowering UX professionals to build skills, solve complex problems, and elevate UX maturity within their organizations.

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Articles and Videos

  • Bulk Actions: 3 Design Guidelines

    When designing bulk actions, provide a Select All option, use a contextual action bar, and give users clear feedback with the option to undo actions to ensure a smooth and efficient experience.

  • Improve Your DesignOps Practice: 3 Essential Tips

    Improve early-stage DesignOps practices by increasing consistency, focusing on high-impact efforts, and achieving quick wins.

  • Accelerators Maximize Efficiency in User Interfaces

    Alternate methods for accomplishing frequent actions in user interfaces support expert users by speeding up their interactions, without hindering novice users.

  • The 5 Stages of UX-Career Progression

    Individuals at different career stages have different challenges, opportunities, and ways to level up.

  • Visual Design: Glossary

    Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to visual design.

  • Affinity Diagramming for Collaboratively Sorting UX Findings and Design Ideas

    Use affinity diagramming to cluster and organize research findings or to sort design ideas in ideation workshops.

  • Sprint Reviews: Prioritize Your Users

    Prioritize users in sprint reviews by demoing features from the user's perspective and creating outcome-based sprint goals.

  • Personal Growth in UX: 5 Signs

    There are five primary signs of personal growth in the UX field: gaining new skills, recognition from others, taking on strategic efforts, autonomy from leadership, and gaining confidence.

  • Defining UX-Career Progression: What Practitioners Say

    UX career progression is not singularly defined, though it typically involves a mix of measurable signals and gut feelings. Growth in the industry is often described as slow and inflexible due to a lack of consistent, measurable criteria and reliable personal-tracking tools.

  • Gain-Loss Framing

    Gain-loss framing in UX storytelling tailors arguments by emphasizing advantages or disadvantages of viewpoints.