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Asking the right questions is a vital skill, applicable across all company departments. There are hurdles in developing effective questions, such as reducing bias and understanding user language, while also discussing the benefits of overcoming these challenges: accurate user insights, improved product design, resource efficiency, increased user satisfaction, and potential competitive advantage.

The Challenge of transforming team perspectives into How might we (HMW) questions can be time-consuming. By integrating ChatGPT into FigJam via a plugin, facilitators can quickly rephrase and abbreviate content, leading to more effective problem-solving and innovative solutions while keeping everything in one place. This AI-powered tool acts as a companion to speed up progress, with future features to be added as the plugin evolves.

Recognized the potential for improvement in team check-ins and retrospectives. How to learn to navigated the challenges of limited communication, voluntary participation, and lack of transparency to create opportunities for growth and enhanced collaboration.

Success requires hard work and persistence, and setbacks are normal. After a failed attempt, a community of UX designers was successfully created during Covid-19. This story shows the importance of teamwork and community in achieving goals.

ChatGPT is a new level of chatbot that provides a shortcut to almost all of your solutions and answers. Since November 2022, this AI technology has significantly increased the style of working for many people. It is an incredible tool that can help us make better decisions, save time, and increase efficiency. However, it is important to remember that AI is not infallible and it is important to always verify the information it provides.

When it comes to solving a task, everyone wants to speak their mind. Often based on supposed knowledge, personal experience or beliefs. This typically results in a biased opinion and unnecessarily complicates working together. Fortunately, there are methods that can help us. For example that different ways of knowing exist. This helps us to better understand your colleagues and how diverse our knowing can be.

Without conducting the appropriate research, we won't be able to influence crucial choices like which features our team should design first or how much work is required to complete a task well. The main point is that without research, it usually takes longer to achieve the desired results. Why? Essentially because we need to develop all of the things that don't function as well as the things that do. Sure we Designers can’t predict the future, but we can help the team to make better decisions. And beyond just considering whether or not the design is usable, we must research our users whole user experiences.

It’s always a challenge to introduce UX into a company or to bring it to the next level. There are a number of key factors which play along when it comes to UX. Are you the first UX Designer within the company or is there already a team? Is it a start-up or established corporate? The understanding and attitude of the team, management, and organization shapes the success or failure of UX. Fortunately, there are so-called UX maturity models to determine the current state of your company.

It's quite likely that a meeting will end in frustration with no outcome, leading to another meeting being scheduled. Due to this and the fact that they are frequently poorly organized, they have a poor reputation in general. Thanks to new tools, remedial action can be taken.

The term design deserves better. It regularly gets underestimated because people think it’s only about making things pretty, chasing new trends, or cleaning up the interface after it's been built. And a lot of so-called Designers are more or less only lip sticking the existing design because they have been told to do so, don’t know better, or don’t have any time for research. So it's essentially about guessing and building shiny user interfaces (UI) without solving actual problems or creating real value, either for the User or for the company. But there is slowly change happening!

Enabling teams to be fast in delivery. With a Design System in mind it can become quite challenging. Should you pursue a centralized or a decentralized design system? How about a hybrid? Depending how you manage your libraries it's actually doable in a scalable way.

Now where CSS aspect-ratio is being cross-browser supported and the global coverage is quite high it’s time to use this advantage for your Website or Product! The idea is to speed up your daily workflow when it comes to creating visuals by minimizing the amount of assets you have to create. Because why not use a size that you can easily reuse? Either it’s for your social media channels or Website.

We tend to be busy all the time. But it is crucial to check in on your tools and workflows. This can help your team achieve better product outcomes. Because the status quo is directly related to the user experience it currently delivers.

There are always user who tend not to use your product as intended. Therefore always aim to simplify the complexity of your product as much as possible. At the same time, this can mean that the complexity of your code increases in order to deliver the greatest possible experience to the users. Complexity shifts!