3 Exercises to Help Your Team Develop Empathy
Empathy may feel like a buzzword these days, but its power is real. UX Booth author Jennifer Winter walks through exercises aimed at building and fostering empathy skills within teams.
When Feedback Goes Horribly Wrong
When feedback isn’t given constructively, a team’s morale can wither and die. Bad feedback means nothing gets better. Today, we look at a few bad types of feedback, and highlight a great talk coming up at the 2017 Design + Content conference.
Designing the Intersection of Government, Cancer, and the People
In 2016, President Obama announced an initiative to fight cancer, and Kara DeFrias was lucky enough to be on the front lines as a UX designer. This is her story of how they designed at the intersection of a benevolent bureaucracy and a devastating disease.
How to Run Meetings that Don’t Suck
Meetings are critical to the design process. It’s a shame they often suck. Fortunately, designers have the expertise to run engaging meetings with solid outcomes, and author Mike Jongbloet shows us how.
Every Week is a Design Sprint
David Pazstor’s team at UX Studio was doing design sprints before they were cool. In this article he shares what they’ve learned so far, how they’ve adapted the original idea of design sprints to their team, and some ideas about adopting design sprints to continuous development.
Communicating with (and Persuading) Engineers – A Learning Opportunity
UX Booth columnist Jennifer Leigh Brown is giving a talk on Marketing to Engineers! Learn more and find out how to sign up.
Three Exercises to Teach Your Team Empathy
Empathy may feel like a buzzword these days, but its power is real. Like any skill, empathy requires some practice. This week, writer Jennifer Winter teaches us 3 exercises to teach empathy to teams.