Design Kaffé

In our last episode about Discovery, we discuss how we deal with ambiguity in discovery: when and how do we run into ambiguity in our discovery work? Should we always seek certainty or embrace ambiguity? How do we help our stakeholders deal with ambiguity as well?

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This week is about Continuous Discovery! We explore how it differs from project-based discovery as well as some of the best practices about when and how to implement it in your team.

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This week we are tackling the big mighty theme of Discovery. Starting with a first topic on how to design the right thing VS designing the thing right. We talk about how we frame problems, when we feel that it’s time to move forward within the design process and how solution phase also involves discovery.

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For our last episode in our trilogy on how to not lose your soul, we talk about knowing our value as designers: when do we think we’re being undervalued as designers? What can we do to help the rest of the organisation understand what value we bring? To what extent does where design sit in the org chart speak to our value?

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We continue our topic on how to not lose your soul by deep-diving into the challenges of staying creative as a designer. What is creativity in UX and design, and why can it sometimes be so hard to stay creative? What are some ways we can overcome our creativity blocks?

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Sarah Doody joins us this week to talk about UX career and job search. She tells us about how we can benefit from treating our career like a product and gives many valuable advice to designers in search for their next role. Sarah is the founder and CEO of the Career Strategy Lab™.

Articles and videos mentioned in the episode can be found right here: how to write a case study, how to create a UX resume and how to optimise your LinkedIn profile

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We explore a new theme: how to not lose your soul. How do we keep our soul as product designers? How do we stick to our user-centred values and principles while meeting business needs? How do we escape the feature factory?

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This week, we dive into our last empathy topic and talk about the importance of building empathy with ourselves. We discuss how self-empathy impacts us both positively or negatively at work and what practices we’ve tried to build self compassion. 

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We continue our empathy theme and talk about why it’s important to build empathy with stakeholders. We also share thoughts on how we might be better at being empathetic to our stakeholders and building a compassionate culture.

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Our first theme for the season is empathy: we define empathy, talk about the importance of building empathy with our users, and share ways we can be more empathetic with users throughout our design process.

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