Stu Collett

🚀 Kicking off the day at DesignOps LA 2024 with an insightful opening session: Measure by Measure - New Frameworks to Measure the (elusive) Value of DesignOps 🎯 DesignOps can be tricky to quantify. While we know its impact is essential, how do we measure it beyond just the glowing feedback from partners? 📏 Join Rachel Posman and John Calhoun of Salesforce, co-authors of 'The Design Conductors: Your Essential Guide to DesignOps', as they explore innovative frameworks for proving the true value of DesignOps. This conversation is sure to reshape how we think about metrics in design operations! #DesignOpsLA #DesignLeadership #Innovation #Metrics #Conference #CreativeTech #DesignOps

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Fact: Diverse design teams are faster, more efficient, and produce more innovative products.  Why?  Because diverse teams (teams that consist of people with different skillsets, educational backgrounds, and lived experiences) are simply smarter and more creative than homogenous teams. The diversity of skills and expertise in a multidisciplinary team encourages trial and error and challenging the status quo. This stimulates new kinds of learning and thinking, potentially resulting in breakthrough design solutions that would not have been possible with a single-discipline team. Ready to delve deeper? Read our full article, “Why Multidisciplinary Teams Create Design Better Products”: https://hubs.la/Q02xKCyt0  ---- Hello. We're Delve, a product innovation firm. We help companies bring bold ideas to market through human-centered expertise—strategy, design, engineering. Learn more about product design and development services at Delve: https://hubs.la/Q02xKt8T0 #DEI #diversityday #productdesign

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If your main metric for success for design systems is measuring adoption, then consider this: Adoption does not equal value. Value is better communicated by money saving or money generated when it comes to organisations. This can be calculated by time savings for example. Adoption only tells you how much it is being used - without the former you cannot realise the scale of value. #designsystems #design #designmatrics

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Very interesting article on the technologies supporting and enabling Chatbots. https://lnkd.in/eJMAN-hs #design #designthinking #designbuild #designstrategy #product #producctdesign #productmanagement #productstrategy #designprinciples #innovation #designers #digitaltransformation #ux #uxdesign #uiux #uidesign #designinnovation #application #software #softwaredesign #usability #userresearch #research #usercentereddesign #productleadership #uxwriting #designsystems #empathy #interfacedesign #usabilitytesting #userexperience #productdesign #accessibility #ui

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Personas - a guaranteed way to generate a lively discussion in the UX world. In her latest post for #ResearchOps - Why do Personas underdeliver to design teams? - Irith Williams goes beyond the initial love/hate response to understand their uses, misuses and misunderstandings of Design Personas. "The first task for a design practitioner is to understand what makes a Design Persona work, and what makes a Design Persona fail. This is key to recognising the ‘threats’ to a Persona’s reliability." https://lnkd.in/eS4RtPTJ • Not a member of ResearchOps Community Slack? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gRj9tvct • Want to write an article for ResearchOps? Submit ideas and drafts: https://lnkd.in/gmzthmCg #UX #UXResearch #Democratization #Training #Operations #ProductDevelopment #ProductManagement

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Interesting article on rethinking the role of UX Teams. https://lnkd.in/eN7SQHEm #design #designthinking #designbuild #designstrategy #product #producctdesign #productmanagement #productstrategy #designprinciples #innovation #designers #digitaltransformation #ux #uxdesign #uiux #uidesign #designinnovation #application #software #softwaredesign #usability #userresearch #research #usercentereddesign #productleadership #uxwriting #designsystems #empathy #interfacedesign #usabilitytesting #userexperience #productdesign #accessibility #ui

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The more I talk to hiring managers and senior designers about what they are looking for in designers, the more I back up the theory that portfolios shouldn't be X, Y, Z case studies, but explorations of your obsession with details. I've written up more thoughts on this so I don't spam your LinkedIn feed with an essay https://lnkd.in/e9CxHxzz

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Figma’s ConFig ’24 released several new features that caused many to continue to sing their praises. However, there is a trend their business model that is problematic. New features are initially available to all in beta. Once the feature goes into production, there will be a charge to use the new feature. Figma seems to be building an a la cart feature menu creating a nickel and dime growth strategy. The problem is that Figma has already surpassed the exorbitant pricing of Adobe products. Has Figma considered the full spectrum of their user base? While some enterprises may be able to float that price tag (For managers, it still can be a hard sell for budget approval), small businesses and independent designers will find the cost to be challenging or prohibitive. While Figma may generate some initial profit, it may not work in the long-term once the romance is gone.

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Very interesting article on the process of showcasing the results of research to stakeholders. https://lnkd.in/eyzx_4Sg #design #designthinking #designbuild #designstrategy #product #producctdesign #productmanagement #productstrategy #designprinciples #innovation #designers #digitaltransformation #ux #uxdesign #uiux #uidesign #designinnovation #application #software #softwaredesign #usability #userresearch #research #usercentereddesign #productleadership #uxwriting #designsystems #empathy #interfacedesign #usabilitytesting #userexperience #productdesign #accessibility #ui

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Here is an interesting article from UXDesign.io about how to incorporate user feedback in an iterative design process. https://lnkd.in/eqUjX6JN Please note I was asked to comment so it does include something from me.

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Exciting news! 🎉 My book Design in Context: A Framework for Strategic Differentiation is now available on Audible! 🎧 If you’re a design driven company or a designer driving companies. This is the book for you ✌️ Design Thinking has evolved 🤔... meet Context-based Design 🚀 --- https://lnkd.in/eJqHAYVy #DesignInContext #Audible #BusinessStrategy #DesignThinking #Innovation #DesignInContext

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Launching a successful digital product starts by defining a clear product strategy. For us this often kicks off with blended workshops in person and online. Download our Product Strategy Canvas on Miro https://lnkd.in/eGStYJ4A This strategic tool aligns goals and key considerations for launching new products, services, or business ideas. With five comprehensive sections, it covers all crucial aspects of your business strategy and customer experience, providing a clear vision of your venture's future. 🚀 We'd love any ideas to help improve it. #Miroverse #weareathlon #productstrategy #strategycanvas

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Highlighting one of my articles on the topic of Empathy in the Design Process. https://lnkd.in/e8HfUUD #design #designthinking #designbuild #designstrategy #product #producctdesign #productmanagement #productstrategy #designprinciples #innovation #designers #digitaltransformation #ux #uxdesign #uiux #uidesign #designinnovation #application #software #softwaredesign #usability #userresearch #research #usercentereddesign #productleadership #uxwriting #designsystems #empathy #interfacedesign #usabilitytesting #userexperience #productdesign #accessibility #ui #ai #genai 

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What power structures are inherent in your design system, and how does it perpetuate these structures? One of my favourite things is having theory (of any kind) applied to something you weren't expecting - here's a great example that properly made my brain fizz (in a good way!)

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Often, team creativity, and the ability to build a creative culture, are limited by classic cognitive biases. In this blog, I cover some of those biases, and how we can help teams move past them to unlock their creativity: https://bit.ly/4bfRVQd

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