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Category: Design Strategy
Design Strategy is about controlling the amount of subjectivity in the product or service development process. If designers want to influence and translate strategy in ways that drive their user experience vision forward, they must become both business-savvy analysts and synthesizers. In this section, you will learn about different trainings, talks and workshops on the topic of ‘Design Strategy’ that I presented on different events in which I’m trying to raise the awareness of the importance of designers to think more strategically about their own work.
Jobs to be Done (JTBD) can help facilitate the two-way negotiations that allows for managing by Outcomes, creating team autonomy and ownership.
Influencing larger decisions that shape strategy starts with the smallest of decisions, including how to incorporate feedback to designs in order to drive product vision forward.
Learn how Jobs to be Done (JTBD) work as an “exchange” currency between designers, business stakeholders and technology people.
There are some Project Management skills that will prove invaluable for the effectiveness of design strategists.
Testing Business Ideas throughly, regardless of how great they may seem in theory, is a way to mitigate risks of your viability hypothesis being wrong.
In this post, I’ll talk about how psychological safety is a prerequisite for creating shared understanding.
In this post I’ll talk the need for visibility and traceability systems that enables you to adjust strategic choices accordingly.
In this post, I’ll talk about how can we facilitate pivot and risk mitigation discussions while pursuing ideas and/or approaches, what methods, tools or techniques are available for pivot and risk mitigation, and what signals we need capture in order to know if we should Persevere, Pivot or Stop.
In this post, I’ll focus on how to help teams with facilitating investment discussions by finding ways to remove (or at least reduce) subjectivity when we compare, contrast, or debate the value ideas, approaches, solutions to justify the investment on them.