Tag: Stakeholders
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 16 with Andy Vitale on Applying User Research and Gaining Business and Stakeholder Trust
Episode 16 highlights:
- What makes experiences valuable?
- Getting a “seat at the table” with design…and then what to do with it
- Growing from a designer to a design leader
- Speaking the language of the business to sell your vision and ideas
- How to tie design decisions to business metrics
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 17 with Erika Hall on User Research, Collaborating with Stakeholders and Design Culture
Episode 17 highlights:
- Using research and design to create products and services that are more balanced in the world
- Where to start helping your company make a bigger impact with user research
- “Startup” culture and how it can be very unhealthy and unproductive
- Why some companies still aren’t doing user research (or enough) and how you can help
- How having shared goals boosts collaboration and creativity
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 8 with Audrey Crane on UX Design, Research & Napkins
Episode 8 highlights:
- Audrey’s concept of “give me a napkin”
- Knowing how and when to step backwards from a prescribed solution to find the problem to solve
- Working with your team and stakeholders so you can make a meaningful contribution as a designer
- How we can find, and solve, the right problems as designers
- UX designers and product managers working together successfully
- Who owns the advocacy for and voice of the customer?
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I Found a Remarkable Way to Kill Politics in my Design and Product Strategy
Can I get a show of hands from how many people have ever had an awesome idea shot down due to politics or flimsy opinions?
Yep, I’ll bet you’ve been in client or stakeholder meetings finding yourself hit with a bunch of questions and critique about the decisions or recommendations you’ve made. Heck, you might even have a great story to tell and well thought out reasons for why you did what you did. Yet, there you sit, watching all that great work get flushed down the drain right before your very eyes by the highest paid, or the loudest (or both!) person in the room. Often, the discussion turns to things about the product or service that fly in the face of customer needs or even our own company objectives. Watching well crafted ideas get argued away in a single meeting is like squabbling over what to have for dinner while the house burns down around you.
Here’s the good news: killing politics and emotions in your design or product strategy doesn’t have to be an impossible task. By setting clear, well defined goals for your strategy, you can easily sell great ideas, decisions and recommendations without banging your head against the wall.
Download the free 4 point product strategy goal checklist, and we’ll walk through how to use it right here in this post. When we’re done, you’ll be on your way to building a brilliant design and product strategy that solves the right problems for your company and its customers.
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