Strategy Articles & Videos

  • Macro vs. Micro Conversions

    Macro conversions are desired user actions that directly contribute to your business's primary goals. In contrast, micro conversions are user actions that precede macro conversions and occur more frequently.

  • 4 Reasons Your UX Roadmaps Are Not Working and What to Do Instead

    Enhance UX roadmaps by focusing on themes instead of features, flexible timelines, team prioritization, and regular revisions.

  • Competitive Reviews vs. Competitive Research

    There is more than one way to conduct a competitive evaluation. This video describes the difference between a competitive review and competitive research.

  • Product-Led Growth & UX

    The product-led growth model enables users to try a product or service before paying. This video offers three tips for UX professionals to support a product-led user experience: Connect changes to metrics, interview/survey users, and compare behavior and feedback.

  • STEEPLE: Building Contextual Knowledge

    STEEPLE is an acronym to help teams identify specific categories of external, contextual factors that may impact the success of your product or service. Being conscious of these factors can ensure your team reduces risks in future design strategies or investments.

  • UX Risk Statements to Influence Stakeholders

    UX professionals can use UX risk statements to structure their communication, negotiate with the business, and advocate for or against particular activities or approaches.

  • Gain-Loss Framing

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

  • CSD Matrix: Framework and Template for Shared Understanding

    A CSD matrix outlines and simplifies project context and understanding by categorizing information into three distinct types: certainties, suppositions, and doubts.

  • Campbell's Law: The Dark Side of Success Metrics

    When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption, which can have disastrous consequences.

  • Why Prioritize Personas?

    Prioritizing your personas helps you make strategic design tradeoffs to ensure designs bring the most value to the business.

  • User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s The Difference?

    Customer experience (CX) is a term commonly used to define UX over long periods of time.

  • Long-Tail Data in UX

    The long tail refers to the data points at the trailing end of a power-law distribution. A long-tail strategy involves efficiently exploiting these low-impact data points for an aggregated benefit.

  • Design Risks: How to Assess, Mitigate, and Manage Them

    The risk-management process enables teams to assess risks during the design process in order to reduce harm to users and to the organization. Risk mitigation involves systematically reducing the likelihood or the impact of a risk.

  • Product-Led Growth and UX

    Product-led growth is a try-before-you-buy business strategy. Successful product-led growth relies on strong product utility and usability.

  • UX Vision & Strategy: Top Questions Answered

    A UX vision is a part of a UX strategy, alongside goals (or measures) and a plan.

  • 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.

  • UX Research Roadmaps

    A UX research roadmap is a living artifact that prioritizes and communicates a team’s future research efforts, from early discovery-based initiatives to later-stage usability testing.

  • UX Strategy: Study Guide

    Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos about UX visioning and strategy.

  • UX Stakeholder Engagement 101

    Engaging with stakeholders is a requirement if we want to ship great experiences. It should be integrated with your team’s routines, tools, and methods — so that it feels sustainable and effective.

  • 3 Common Antipersonas in UX

    Considering 3 main antipersonas in your design process can prevent much misuse or other grief which would undermine the user experience after the product is released.