UX Teams Articles & Videos

  • Planning Effective UX Workshop Agendas

    Goals, questions, and processes are the 3 building blocks for creating UX-workshop agendas. A 6-step approach integrates them into an agenda.

  • Observer Guidelines for Usability Research

    Let stakeholders help gather data during user research sessions. Customize this handout for observers to fit your situation.

  • Design Critiques: Encourage a Positive Culture to Improve Products

    Open feedback is essential for a collaborative UX process.

  • Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams

    Not only does design thinking foster innovation, but it also strengthens teams by creating common vocabulary and artifacts, and a trust-based team culture.

  • Design Thinking 101

    Design thinking is a user-centered process that helps teams understand needs, generate ideas, test solutions, and drive innovation.

  • How UX Professionals Collaborate on Deliverables

    82% of UX professionals collaborate with other team members to produce deliverables. Ideation workshops and “four-eyes” reviews occur frequently, both in-person and remotely. In addition, the roles and contributions of collaborators vary widely.

  • Charrettes (Design Sketching): ½ Inspiration, ½ Buy-In

    Design charrettes inspire design sketches and ideas, include more people in the design process, explore and expose goals and objectives of colleagues in multiple functional roles, and drive off designer’s block.