HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Responsive Design, Mobile First, Content Strategy – yes, it’s important to keep up with the latest and greatest technologies, design patterns, and trends, but these alone can far from guarantee your success. The process...

You’ve read The Innovator’s Dilemma. You’ve bought in to The Lean Startup. You’re ready to kickstart your company’s product innovation efforts. There’s just one problem: you’re not sure where to begin: * What can design teach us about b...

Rochelle and her team had spend the past year at Spotify working to establish their design team and making design play a more strategic role in the company. She shares what they've learned (successes and failures) and talk about how they've been p...

A while back, Jeff sat on a couch in the Typekit offices, staring out the window, and wondering if everything their company had been working towards was about to slip through their fingers. How that story ends is interesting (spoiler alert: they’r...

We have arrived in an age of design. No longer relegated to a function of the marketing department or tacked on to an engineering process, Designers are increasingly taking leadership positions in the top companies in tech. But how do we manage cr...

We tend to forget that the experience is the product we’re delivering. Every technical product category through history has followed this pattern – from a technology for technologies sake, to a feature war, to an experience. In this awesome talk f...

User experience has matured into a robust field that is shaping products, services, and even the businesses behind them—but not in all companies. Just 14% of UX professionals in a recent survey said that UX is living up to its full strategic poten...

bq. <cite>At Uber, our design team consists of talented individuals who are ultimately passionate problem solvers at their core. As a result, many of us have been able to enact change across the organization through the use of common UX design tec...

What makes happy product teams? How close can teams come to those heist teams we see in movies like Oceans 11 or The Italian Job? # *Goal*<br>All great heist teams have a clear, obvious, challenging goal. They usually start with a meeting that ...

We spend a lot of time and effort avoiding conflict but inevitably as product managers and designers we engage in conflict on a regular basis, whether it’s dealing with other teams, giving constructive criticism or simply while engaging divergent ...

Want to make great products? You'll have to build a great team first. Great teams are comprised of people with complimentary skills, but more importantly, complimentary personalities. Savvy leaders select the right personalities and skills knowing...