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Lead from the fourth way
What's inside: Outcome-oriented design, improve curiosity, impact mapping, OKR mistakes, leadership needs hierarchy, UX strategy, and more.
Newsletter • April 12, 2024 • 5 min read
Hey folks,
Here are the top 10 things I found worth sharing and your UX tip of the week.
UX tip of the week
Learn to lead from the fourth way.
Don’t lead your team from the front, the back or the side. You need to know whether they’re following.
“Facing your team and walking backwards some days to keep their attention fully on you so that you can direct. To eventually getting to turn around and walk fast again and count on them to follow.”
Top 10 things worth sharing this week
“A designer’s role is out in the field. Design is an 'experience, rather than explain’ practice. We can have an even greater impact if most of our time isn’t spent speaking FOR users, but rather, speaking TO them.” Ida Persson wrote about why a designer’s role is NOT at the table.
Explore a framework to design generative AI experiences. Go further by leveraging a new perspective outcome-oriented design with the promise of highly personalized interfaces in this AI paradigm we’re in.
Invest in improving you and your team’s curiosity to drive further success. Get insights on its power, how to train it, and how to spark and encourage it at work.
Considering what to do with impact mapping in relation to driver trees and jobs-to-be-done. Related: learn how designing maps can help you understand and advocate for use cases.
See what applying maslow’s hiearchy of needs to leadership means.
I enjoy really good analog interfaces. I’ll be interested to see if AI might bring them back in contrast to voice-first experiences.
Revisit OKR common mistakes and how to get them right with Beck Novaes.
Revisit takeaways from SXSW and dig into the rise of the model designer.
Get a refresher on what UX strategy is and how to create one. Dive deeper with Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions and Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives.
Leverage a complete guide on making content accessibility and learn how to expand your content design impact by transitioning from Solo to Scaled.
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Sincerely,
Gerren