Tell more stories, add friction, edit relentlessly, and do the work. Matt Borland talks about design and storytelling in the age of digital distraction uxWaterloo using Dave Gray style of sketch presentations. Fun night!

Thanks again to Robin Bigio and Davis Neable and the Faire organizers for a fun January Session at Faire. My big takeaways from the session: Encourage your designers to reach out beyond the walls of your organization and connect them with others in the…lnkd.in/e7CMkAs

“Research is not just the fieldwork. It’s important to educate the team that it also includes the up front planning and scoping and the downstream analysis and communication.” Nicole Strong shares her UX research experience at IPEX in a physical product industry uxWaterloo

Thank you for hosting me last night, for my talk on The #UX of Tubes uxWaterloo Adam Euerby my name. Great group to present to! Great Q&A too (shout out to the 🎤 runner). Thank you to everyone who attended; so nice to connect with the UX community. #uxr #innovation #productdesign

Over 170 restaurants + food businesses are open across the city offering pick up, curbside or delivery services during the pandemic. Read more and check out the map! - waterloo.ca//modules/news/…

“When I’m in my team’s way, it’s usually a direct result of my own anxieties... People are going to do things differently than you would and it will be equally effective... Get out of the way.” Shioden JS sharing about leadership uxWaterloo May session.

“If you don’t have a purpose, you don’t have a team, you have a group of people.” Peter Merholz shares some practical wisdom and his 4P’s model for design teams (Purpose, People, Process, Potential) at last week’s uxWaterloo session in the Great White North 😉 Thanks again, Peter!

"To regain the trust of our audience, we need to empower them with useful and usable information." Margot Bloomstein discusses designing for brand authority through voice, volume, and vulnerability at the uxWaterloo July remote session.

"I try to be intentional about using the word 'street' instead of 'road' because it implies so much more than something you drive on” Darren Kropf highlights the importance of language in design at his uxWaterloo talk, Designing Streets for People.

Great research on managing and mentoring practices in the UX community - check out Tam's and Rebecca Rusk's work surveying leaders in the IxDA community to help understand how they're supporting and growing their teams and companies. vimeo.com/channels/41059…

To test 3d content with #Microsoft hololens one of the challenges was getting past the "wow moment" with users to find out how we could improve the designs. Ana Sofia Gonzalez, shares her guide for 3d content in mixed reality at this month's uxWaterloo. medium.com/@anashofas/a-d…

Learning that design methodologies like participatory design, rapid prototyping, user journey mapping are effective tools in the humanitarian development context. Very grateful to have @EriolDoesDesign share their experience of recent work at this month's uxWaterloo session.

A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors for making TILE possible! TILE is our upcoming designathon, created to teach, inspire, link and enable student designers. Apply today at forms.gle/qvs2pbzMPYqwph…

"...we can learn a lot about ourselves and our true feelings when we aren't surrounded by our usual identities..." A participant in the digital art app, Duet, shares a reflection of the experience. Thanks to Quicksand, and invisible flock for sharing their work with uxWaterloo.

What are the effects of religious or political activities that might take place in the created game experiences in the metaverse? Carina Ngai sharing her open questions about designing Roblox at the April uxWaterloo session. Great presentation!

‘If your solution was a person, what kind of a person would your customers want to be working with?’ Adam Connor shares his thoughts on how to use design principles to create consistent experience in the opening talk at Fluxible TV 2021.

“We owe it to ourselves to be able to access our whole design toolkit including our subconscious. The human brain is so freaking cool.”ChristinaGoldschmidt shares unconventional design resources and methodologies at #designleadership 2022.

“Meet your partners where they’re going.” Andy Vitale adapts the age-old Gretzky principle for how design leaders can work with partners in their organization. #designleadership 2022.

Jessa Parette shows how hiring is so much more than the interview. Use proto personas to clarify who you’re looking for and use a 1 year thank-you note for what you’re going to set them up to meaningfully achieve. #designleadership

“A VP of Design doesn’t do design, they’re a business person.” Peter Merholz shares an in-depth framework, complete with Pokémon, for understanding the various roles, levels and team structures for scaling design teams. Awesome talk! #designleadership DesignX Community