communication Articles & Videos

  • Psychological Ownership: Own the Right Things

    Psychological ownership can make you more effective, but you’ll struggle if it attaches to things you can’t control. Spot misplaced ownership and redirect it.

  • How to Get Research Recommendations on the Roadmap

    To influence the roadmap: join planning early, learn constraints, tie research to PM metrics, and give clear recommendations at the right time.

  • UX Writing: FAQs from Practitioners

    Get answers to frequently asked questions about UX writing from attendees of NN/G’s Writing Compelling Digital Copy course.

  • Design Guidance: Principles, Patterns, Heuristics, and Team Charters

    Design teams rely on a combination of principles, patterns, heuristics, and charters to create consistent and usable experiences in a collaborative way.

  • Alt Text: What to Write

    Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.

  • Alt Text: Not Always Needed

    Write alt text that communicates an image's purpose without repeating page content. Focus on meaning rather than visual description.

  • The Rhetorical Triangle for Stakeholders: Make Your Point and Get Your Way

    Ethos, logos, and pathos can help you get buy-in from stakeholders.

  • Product & UX Glossary

    Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to product management and UX.

  • UX Deliverables: Glossary

    Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to UX deliverables.

  • A Lesson on Top Tasks from Hurricane Beryl

    Companies that do not support their users’ top tasks in a crisis fail their users and their reason for existence.

  • Storytelling in UX Work: Study Guide

    Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn how to craft compelling stories while communicating research findings and design ideas.

  • Communication Practices for Increasing UX Maturity

    Improve your organization’s UX maturity by increasing UX awareness and knowledge through purposeful UX-related communication.

  • Common-Knowledge Effect: A Harmful Bias in Team Decision Making

    Teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals.

  • Rewriting Digital Content for Brevity

    Writers always get the advice to be concise, but doing so is easier said than done. These tips and tricks help reduce your word count.

  • Crossfunctional Collaboration: Challenges and Strategies for Success

    To improve crossfunctional collaboration, UX teams must be aware of the challenges they face and develop tailored solutions for each unique challenge.

  • Information Architecture vs. Sitemaps

    Information architecture is the practice of structuring and organizing content on your site. Sitemaps are visualization tools used predominantly for planning.

  • UX & Marketing: Balancing Business Goals and Supporting Users

    There are inevitable tensions that form between UX and marketing teams because of their differing approaches to users and differing priorities. Regardless, both teams can still work together to find effective solutions that address those tensions.

  • Data vs. Findings vs. Insights: The Differences Explained

    Data refers to unanalyzed user observations, findings capture patterns among data points, and insights are the actionable opportunities based on research and business goals.

  • Lean UX & Agile Glossary

    Unsure of what a word means and how it applies to UX in-practice? Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and Agile concepts.

  • The Product-Manager Archetype

    Product managers share common goals, strengths, activities, and skill sets. Awareness of these commonalities helps designers figure out how to best collaborate with product managers on Agile teams.