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How To Get Your Boss or Client To Support Your Idea

What’s usually missing from common advice for ‘getting to yes’.

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tags: Work, Stakeholders, Advice, Management, Career, Pitching, Research, Consultancy, User Experience, User Research, Getting to Yes, Bias to Action, self-improvement, Mind Hack, Self-improvement, Personal development, Personal growth
categories: Humanity, Design
Monday 04.11.22
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Stand Out on Slack With Block Kit Builder

Turn your Slack announcements into mini-applications with buttons, rich data, and more

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tags: work, Product development, User Experience, Hacks, Underpromoted, Startup
categories: Ingenuity, Design
Wednesday 02.16.22
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Not All Blogs Are Created Equal

How some blogs demonstrate user-centricity by challenging long-standing best practices

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tags: Blogging, writing, User Experience, User-centricity, Audience, Creativity, Personal Brand
categories: Design
Thursday 01.06.22
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

User Satisfaction Measurement 101

There’s a whole science to customer or user satisfaction measurement. But sometimes, you just want to get started quickly. This is how to do it ‘safely’.

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tags: UX, Customer Experience, User Experience, Measuring, Metrics, OKRs, Goals
categories: Design
Monday 10.04.21
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Should You Become a UX Designer and Do You Have What It Takes?

The Pros, Cons, and the Requirements of the Job

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tags: UX Design, Professional Development, Life
categories: Design
Tuesday 12.22.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Design is Dead

Why the 'decade of design' may mean its disappearance as we know it.

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tags: Industry, Changes, Trends, Career, Design, UX, Business
categories: Design
Saturday 06.27.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Design Your Skill Set As if It Were Your Job

No, as a designer, you don’t need to learn coding, business, and the rest of it.

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tags: Learning, skills, Professional Development, Personal Brand
categories: Design
Friday 05.22.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Could the Least Sexy Part of Business Hold the Greatest Potential?

To be ready for the future, work on legacy systems

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tags: Management, investment, IT, Business, Consultancy
categories: Design
Wednesday 05.06.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Guiding Principles for Relentless Collaboration

(via the QuantumBlack blog)

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tags: AGILE, collaboration, Learning, Process, Product development, productivity
categories: Design
Friday 08.30.19
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Stay Focused With Data Stories

Combine advanced analytics with design to identify the right problem, and ensure your solution leads to the desired outcomes

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tags: Business, analytics, design thinking, human-centered ai, Design, Consultancy, AI for good
categories: Design
Thursday 06.20.19
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

10 Lessons from Businesses from SXSW 2019

One doesn’t just summarise a conference as vast as SXSW Interactive. But one can see recurring themes that impact all companies and institutions. Here are my 10.

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tags: AI, VR, Self-driving cars, healthcare, conference, lists, technology, adoption, trust, R&D, AGILE, Personalisation
categories: Design
Wednesday 04.03.19
Posted by Thomas Essl
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The UX of an Earthquake

What natural disasters teach you about design

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tags: Product development, Consultancy, UX Design, Essay
categories: Design
Tuesday 03.19.19
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Behold the Post-it

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How to make best use of the unsung hero of ideation workshops

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tags: Ideation, innovation, design, workshop, design thinking
categories: Design
Tuesday 10.16.18
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

QA in UX: How To Ensure Your Vision Reaches Your Users

Quality assurance should be part of every design project. Here is a checklist to help you consider all that’s important.

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tags: UX Design, QA, Process, Quality
categories: Design
Tuesday 07.24.18
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

How To Teach a Colleague on the Job

Being asked to share the tricks of your trade can be rewarding. It can also ruin your relationships.

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tags: Teaching, UX Design, Mentoring, Learning, career
categories: Design, Humanity
Thursday 11.23.17
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

8 Stakeholder Interview Questions For Unique Insights

To succeed with your project, you need to gain a deep understanding of others’ motivations

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tags: Interview, UX, Design, Research, Stakeholders
categories: Design
Tuesday 01.31.17
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy UX Design?

When computers start to know us better than we do, will they start to design our technology too?

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tags: AI, Artifician Intelligence, future, Work
categories: Design
Sunday 06.19.16
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Is the Business of Innovation Stuck in Tradition?

Challenges For The Future Of Design Consultancies

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tags: Design, Innovation, Consultancy, Agency, Future, Business
categories: Design
Sunday 05.22.16
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

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