Fuel your curiosity
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Design Thinking: Solution Assignments
Understanding the people you’re designing for — the ones who will use your products and services…
Design Thinking: Solution Phase Student Assignment
In the refine phase, we revisit the original design challenge and its success criteria…
Design Thinking: Understand Phase Student Assignment
Design thinkers need to be proficient in all phases of the process - Understand…
Design Thinking: Prototype Phase Student Assignment
Design thinkers are proficient in more than design only. Our competencies and collaboration glide from…
Design Thinking: Explore Phase Student Assignment
We learned in the Explore phase article (academy.autodesk.com/inspiration/blog) that finding solutions to the problems we’ve uncovered requires us to generate a wide range of ideas on how we might meet people’s needs.
How can we lift non-researchers up?
How can we make it easier and more effective for non-researchers to obtain the insights they need…
Our exciting metamorphosis
It's ironic. Those of us who work in UX, user researchers included, aspire to create terrific user experiences. That’s what we do. But what we have done…
Elevating the next generation of UXers!
The seeds are taking root! Between starting on a new project (leading a Rolling Research program and at well-known tech company), our “Crowdsourcing Terms…
Don’t stop with merely transferring knowledge
When teaching others new skills, don’t stop with merely transferring knowledge. Instead, provide a means or tool to put that knowledge to work…
WOW what an incredible, nail-biting week!
I skipped last week’s communication but I feel great about it. Here’s why…
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