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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. But in my new Agile team, I was designing fragments that felt incomplete.

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part I)

UX Planet

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step. Do they offer an alternative?”

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The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay

Lenny Rachitsky

It can drive enormous sustained growth (quickly) and often takes very little product work, yet is rarely prioritized or even discussed within product teams. She leverages the latest behavioral-science research to improve products’ conversion, engagement, and, most impactfully, pricing. What if we annoy users?

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part II)

UX Planet

However, without adequate feedback or dialogue, candidates may not have the opportunity to fully explain their thought process or the rationale behind their design decisions. Why other businesses do not ask for a design challenge and still their design teams succeed? Are my motivations backed by data? Am I victim of a bias?

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. But since the roots of the team were still in content operations and back-office processes, this remained their default solution even at times where technology could have been a better one.

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The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Customer Success in 2022

Userpilot

Customer Success is a core growth driver for any SaaS business. In 2022, when the SaaS market is crowded with tons of similar products, the best ones are those who delight their customers regularly. Are still wondering how to keep your customers and make them love your product? What is customer success? No worries!

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

This put more focus on both the customers and the products themselves. Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. Sound familiar? What an era.