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Leveraging neurodivergent traits for design strategy

UX Collective

But as many articles that are consistently published around neurodivergence in tech as a talking point focused on how it can be a “superpower” or can potentially enable your team in “new innovative ways”, it still doesn’t feel “normalized” within companies/company culture. So what’s race car thinking?

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20 Must-Read Books for Product Designers at Any Stage

Creative Market

Written by Nick Disabato and illustrated by Daniel Bogan for supreme clarity, Cadence & Slang is a top resource for product designers. According to Lincoln Mongillo, VP of Product Management of Creative Market, the book is “one of my all-time favorites.” Just Enough Research. Same with Rosenfeld.”

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The many deaths of UX design

UX Collective

Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. It’s hard to say whether it will indeed be the case, but it surely is for the bird app. The not so phantom menace.

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Should designers PM?

UX Collective

Fortunately, that’s over, but it really does help us designers to at least get a feel for coding so we can work more smoothly and empathetically with our engineering teammates. As a designer, I still code a little myself both at work and as a hobby. The same goes with our product management (PM) teammates.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

The current wave is cresting, ready to wash over software design and product management. And third-wave research will reach even higher, moving into product and organizational strategy. Early twenty-teens product zeitgeist was “getting out of the building.” We needed customers and we needed insights.

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Your design is only as good as your organisation’s ability to problem solve

UX Collective

Books: • “Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams” by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden • “INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love” by Marty Cagan • “Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value” by Teresa Torres 3.

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Good UX is not enough without a proper communication plan

UX Collective

Not everything needs a communication plan; part of creating a design strategy is to think about how and when to communicate things to make them relevant to users. So, one of the most critical skills for designers is communicating design intent; as Kazden Cattapan recalls in the article, “Design communication is a critical skill.”