Aurelius Podcast: Episode 21 with Lou Rosenfeld on DesignOps, ResearchOps and UX

Posted on May 8, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Designops, Information Architecture, Podcast, Research Ops, Researchops, Ux

Episode 21 Highlights:

Lou’s background, the beginning of the internet and how UX/IA all started
The stories behind Lou meeting Tim Berners Lee and Larry Page
How Lou started Rosenfeld Media, the UX book publishing company
The story of the blind men and the elephant and how it applies to building a great user experience
DesignOps, ResearchOps and how Lou began major conferences around those topics
Lou’s advice for those of us working in large organizations doing UX design

Aurelius Podcast: Episode 20 with Aarron Walter on UX Organization Models, DesignOps and User Research

Posted on April 17, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Design Ops, Podcast, Research Ops, User Research, Ux

Episode 20 highlights:

What does a high functioning design team look like and how are they organized?
The three types of successful enterprise UX organization models
How companies like Target, Spotify, Netflix, Google and more are doing designops and great UX design at scale
Creating and sharing user research findings across your organization

You Don’t Need More User Research

Posted on April 10, 2018September 19, 2019 by Zack Naylor

Tags Design Ops, Research Ops, User Research

Don’t freak out, but just hear me out. It’s very likely that you don’t need more user research but rather, you need to be getting more out of the user research you already did.

Spending more quality time with the data and insights you collect is one of the biggest challenges in our industry, particularly if you’re already doing user research regularly. Think about it, when was the last time you honestly felt that you spent enough time really analyzing and synthesizing (read…”figuring out what you learned) from the data and information you gathered from a research study?