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Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent & Behaviour
Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent & Behaviour
People often make assumptions about behaviour, and those assumptions often turn out to be wrong. Something I’m guilty of as much as anybody…
Adrian Howard
Sep 13
Facilitating Your First Wardley Mapping Session
Facilitating Your First Wardley Mapping Session
(This is not an introduction to Wardley Mapping in general. If you’re looking to understand what a Wardley Map is, why you would want to…
Adrian Howard
Aug 19
Why I Dislike Maturity Models
Why I Dislike Maturity Models
I’ve recently been hitting some client problems caused by their organisation’s approach to maturity models. So… time for a brief rant…
Adrian Howard
Jul 31
Reflecting on Fourteen Years of Journaling
Reflecting on Fourteen Years of Journaling
My annual reminder to reflect on the last year of journaling popped up today — which reminded me of something I wrote in 2022 which I’m…
Adrian Howard
Jul 25
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The Self-Service Research Sweet Spot
The Self-Service Research Sweet Spot
A recent question on the ResearchOps Community Slack touched upon on how to split work between dedicated user research practitioners vs…
Adrian Howard
Jul 4
Three Questions to Help Triage Your Dashboards
Three Questions to Help Triage Your Dashboards
I’ve been helping someone recently whose organisation has been overwhelmed by “dashboards” — collections of KPIs, OKRs, and other…
Adrian Howard
Jul 4
Turn It Up or Turn It Down
Turn It Up or Turn It Down
An issue I’ve been talking through with people recently is when to do certain activities. Or how often. Or how many people to involve.
Adrian Howard
Jul 4
How Do Candidates Describe Your Hiring Process?
How Do Candidates Describe Your Hiring Process?
If you’re having problems hiring go ask candidates how they would describe your hiring process.
Adrian Howard
Jul 4
The UX of Management
The UX of Management
UX Scotland, 13–15 June 2018
Kathryn Leach
Jan 30, 2019
Points Don’t Mean Prizes
Points Don’t Mean Prizes
ACE!, Kraków, May 2018
Kathryn Leach
May 30, 2018
Sturgeon’s Biases
Sturgeon’s Biases
How communities of practice lie to themselves & everybody else
Adrian Howard
Apr 13, 2018
UX Camp Brighton 2018
UX Camp Brighton 2018
24 March 2018, The Skiff, Brighton
Adrian Howard
Apr 6, 2018
Taking Your First Steps as a Director of UX
Taking Your First Steps as a Director of UX
I’ve been having a lot more conversations in recent months with people who are new to leadership roles in UX.
Adrian Howard
Feb 27, 2018
Books to Get Your Usability Testing Practice Up and Running
Books to Get Your Usability Testing Practice Up and Running
The answer to “How do I get better at usability testing?” is always going to be “Do more usability tests”. However, I often get asked after…
Adrian Howard
Feb 12, 2018
User Stories: Bin, Thin, or Split?
User Stories: Bin, Thin, or Split?
Questions to keep you focused on user story value
Adrian Howard
Jan 31, 2018
Books to Get Your Customer Interviewing Practice Up and Running
Books to Get Your Customer Interviewing Practice Up and Running
After my workshops on Customer Interviewing I’m often asked which books I would recommend for further reading. I always advocate practice…
Adrian Howard
Jan 17, 2018
Culture Mapping, Agile & Sustainability Science
Culture Mapping, Agile & Sustainability Science
London Agilists Meetup, November 2017
Kathryn Leach
Nov 21, 2017
Scrum doesn’t say…
Scrum doesn’t say…
A rant about what Scrum isn’t.
Adrian Howard
Nov 1, 2017
Towards Agile-Inspired Sustainability Science
Towards Agile-Inspired Sustainability Science
James Hutton Institute, August 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 14, 2017
How to talk to Earthlings
How to talk to Earthlings
The Lead Developer, June 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 14, 2017
The UX of Management
The UX of Management
UX in the City: Manchester, May 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 14, 2017
Effective Customer Interviewing
Effective Customer Interviewing
NUX Camp Leeds, April 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 14, 2017
Failure Swapshop
Failure Swapshop
Ground Control, April 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
Experimenting with Experimental Ethics & Failure Swapshop
Experimenting with Experimental Ethics & Failure Swapshop
Just Eat, Bristol, April 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
The UX Style of Management
The UX Style of Management
UX Camp Brighton, March 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
How to talk to Earthlings
How to talk to Earthlings
ProductCamp London, March 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
The UX of Management
The UX of Management
UX Bournemouth, February 2017
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
Iterative Persona
Iterative Persona
Agile on the Beach, September 2016
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
Lean Persona
Lean Persona
Agile in the City: London, June 2016
Kathryn Leach
Sep 13, 2017
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