Topic 21 talks 16 experts 7 events 13h 11m
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...
*The Executioner’s Tale* Christina has spent her career attacking impossible tasks: at Yahoo, taking on the giant Google at search; at Linkedin, bringing people to participate daily at a site about resumes; at MySpace, reinventing the profile; ...
Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. He lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work.
Patrick Lencioni turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the complex world of teams. Lencioni's gripping tale serves as a reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals t...
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...
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty? In studying the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that t...
Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers - and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (un...
In this in-depth talk, ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek reveals the hidden dynamics that inspire leadership and trust. In biological terms, leaders get the first pick of food and other spoils, but at a cost. When danger is present, t...
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...
This philosophical talk might be hard to grasp in the first viewing without pausing and playing back - but it's more than worth the effort. Dave Snowden explains his sense-making methodology that help provide means to integrate and understand t...
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...
Whether you’re a designer or not, you make design decisions every day. Successful design projects require equal participation from both the client and the design team. Yet, for most people who buy design, the process remains a mystery.
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 ...
h3. ... and were too afraid to ask Learning objectives * Where are the big hiring trends? * Who gets paid the most? * What are the skills most desired? * How has it changed in the last 15 years? Be Kaler will answer the questions you w...
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...
If we hope to move forward, the UX community must go deep. We’ve been seduced by surface at the expense of understanding. We think we’re designing software, websites, and experiences. But we’re not. We are agents of change. Until we accept this...
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