Summary
Join today’s speakers for Q&A and discussion of the day’s topics.
Key Insights
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User-centricity in enterprises often lags due to internal mindset treating users as colleagues rather than customers.
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Proving UX return on investment remains a major challenge, limiting stakeholder buy-in.
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IT teams often receive predefined solutions instead of problems to solve, limiting their impact.
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Design is frequently misunderstood as just UI or visual design, constraining designers’ roles.
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Designers struggle balancing pixel-perfect UI detail with broader product and business contributions.
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Customer obsession culture sometimes narrows teams’ focus on single personas, missing broader impacts.
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End-to-end service design thinking remains underdeveloped, with teams siloed by product stage or function.
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Dedicated researchers are critical for properly synthesizing insights and building organizational knowledge.
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Operating a UX team as a business with clear value propositions and mutual commitments fosters stronger partnerships.
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Growth boards encourage outcome-focused metrics, cross-disciplinary alignment, and executive engagement, but require foundational collaboration steps and can be resource-intensive.
Notable Quotes
"Sometimes it might be seen as something that is not necessary because our end users are practically colleagues, not actually paying customers."
"We’re often given solutions to build instead of problems to solve, so we’re completely outside of providing what IT is hired for."
"Designers want to get out of the UI design box but still cling to pixel perfection that may not matter to users."
"Teams only think about a specific customer obsession persona and lose sight of upstream or downstream effects and other personas."
"Service design is very up-and-coming, but there’s still a long way to go in thinking about the entire user journey."
"Designers often come out of schools without ever doing competitive analysis or considering existing design patterns."
"Designers focus on shipping and don’t have bandwidth for documenting learnings or synthesizing knowledge across products."
"You have to present UX value from the stakeholder’s perspective: what will John the developer get from doing this?"
"Growth boards are a more advanced tool that require breaking down walls between disciplines and focusing on outcome-driven metrics."
"If growth board content overlaps with quarterly business reviews, don’t do both; instead, inject an outcome mindset into existing meetings."
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