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Short Take #4: UX/Product Lessons from Your Industry Peers

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022 • Design in Product 2022
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Short Take #4: UX/Product Lessons from Your Industry Peers
Speakers: Noreen Whysel and Katie Saindon
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Summary

Curated from community-contributions, these brief video clips feature winning submissions from industry pros sharing their most important lessons on navigating the intersection of UX/Product.

Key Insights

  • Engineers and product teams often use highly specific taxonomies and standards like NIST, ISO, and HL7, which UX professionals must learn to speak fluently to collaborate effectively.

  • UX design can be integrated into engineering requirements by embedding user-focused elements directly into technical standards.

  • Resistance to UX in product teams often stems from fears that UX slows down rapid product growth and misunderstands technical constraints.

  • Doing UX design early and iteratively aligns well with lean product development and reduces costly errors later in the process.

  • UX research methods can fit into short product cycles without adding bureaucratic delays.

  • Building trust between UX and product teams involves shifting conversations from technical engineering details to the value and usability that UX brings.

  • In resource-constrained startups, leveraging structured communication tools like debrief trackers enables collaboration without requiring UX presence in every user session.

  • A debrief tracker with sections for individual context, key learnings, design concept performance, and takeaways aids quick knowledge sharing.

  • Having explicit conversations about team structure, meeting roles, and artifact usage is essential for sustainable UX-product partnerships.

  • Trust developed through transparent communication allows UX to lean on product managers and engineers effectively and vice versa.

Notable Quotes

"One thing I learned from working with product people is how to speak their language like all disciplines."

"Product designers I have worked with have experience deeply grounded in standards like NIST, ISO, IEEE, and HL7 for healthcare."

"Some bias against human-centered UX comes from concern that ordinary folks don't understand technical software requirements."

"Doing design right early, just like failing early, helps to prevent time-consuming mistakes."

"UX people do have research methods that fit into shorter product development cycles."

"From an engineer's perspective, we don't have to talk about the engineering but talk about the value, including usability, and that is what builds trust."

"By understanding your environment and having those conversations with your product manager, you can create a relationship that is sustainable and efficient."

"Our debrief tracker helped the UX designer quickly absorb information and became a helpful reference and index."

"It's not just about the artifacts but the conversations had to come to that system or structure."

"Trust was so key to the product-UX relationship and it was further built by putting structure in place."

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