Articles

Sarah Gibbons

Sarah Gibbons is a former NN/G employee who worked on teaching, leadership, and design thought leadership. At NN/G Sarah published ground-breaking insights on service design and service blueprinting, design thinking, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Articles and Videos

  • UX vs. Service Design

    What's the difference between user experience and service design? Or, more to the point, how does good service design support a good user experience?

  • Customer Journey Mapping 101

    The 5 components of a journey map and the benefits of using this qualitative method as part of a UX design process to discover, document, and share the bigger picture of what users want.

  • Sympathy vs. Empathy in UX

    The majority of UX professionals practice sympathy instead of empathy for their users.

  • Top 5 Mistakes in Running UX Workshops

    Workshops are a useful tool in the user-experience design process, but mistakes are common when the workshop facilitator didn't prepare right, causing the team to waste time.

  • User Need Statements: The ‘Define’ Stage in Design Thinking

    User need statements, also called problem statements or point-of-view statements, are a tool for defining and aligning on the problem you are going to solve.

  • How to Empathy Map

    A 5-step process for creating empathy maps that describe user characteristics at the start of a UX design process.

  • Design Thinking 101

    What is "design thinking" and why should you care? The 6 steps of the process defined.

  • Journey Mapping 101

    A journey map is a visualization of the process that a person goes through in order to accomplish a goal.

  • A 4 Minute UX Workshop Facilitator's Guide

    As a facilitator, it’s your responsibility to make sure the time spent in workshops is as productive as possible for attendees, while at the same time ensuring that you get the insights you need in order to move your project forward.

  • What Is Design Thinking, Really? (What Practitioners Say)

    The majority of UX and design professionals define design thinking roughly the same, regardless of industry and experience, but there’s no agreement on the specifics.