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What is Product Discovery? [Process, Methods, and Benefits]
Learn a system to collaboratively decides what gets built and the process and methods for gathering evidence to build the right thing.
4 Practical Ways to Get Started in Design Ethics
4 practical ways to design experiences that are more ethical [free PDF on “consequence scanning” included]
11 Iconic Product Design Portfolios Before They Were Famous
See what famous designers’ portfolio sites looked like in the 90s and 2000s thanks to the Wayback Machine
5 Ways to Make UX Research Agile
5 steps to lead your team to “continuous” user research so your learning can keep up with agile
Qualitative Design Research: Methods for the Why & How
A guide to the different types of qualitative research methods that you may need as a design researcher.
How to Escape the Delivery Trap (and Find Time for Discovery)
How to avoid designing products stuck in the Delivery Trap of deadlines, deliverables, and pixel pushing.
Visual Thinking Strategies: Facilitate with Art
Learn how to guide the conversation around any visual with a facilitation technique from art education and watch a demo of VTS by the author
How a Live Online UX Course Gave Me Practical Experience
Fountain Institute alumnus Pete Armitage tells us how Continuous UX Research helped him break through the Illusion of Mastery
Generative Research in Co-Creation Workshops
Generative Design Research brings a third element into the "say" and "do" techniques of design research…the “make.”
5 Key Elements to Designing Workshops
Use these five key elements of workshop design to ensure that your workshop event is well planned and tailored to your audience.
How to Use UX Data to Convince Stakeholders
What is one thing you can say to explain your design decisions better? Hint: it has everything to do with UX data.
How to Test Assumptions with the Experiment Cards
Learn how to turn product ideas into product experiments by testing assumptions with these free cards for Miro, Mural, and Figjam.
The Designer’s Guide to Testing and Experiments
Learn how to transition from a regular design mindset towards an experimental mindset and start testing product ideas with real customer behavior.
What is data-driven design?
What’s behind this new approach to creating products, and how should designers think about their process in a “data-driven” way.
What Is UX Theatre and How Do You Avoid It?
How do we know that we’re not pretending to be user-centered? Learn about the helpful term called UX Theatre to bring your team closer to the user.
What are Senior UX Designer Salaries Around the World?
Get an average of Senior UX Designer salaries from tech hubs all over the world with data sourced from the Designer Open Salary Spreadsheet
The 3 Pillars of Continuous UX Research
Learn how to turn any research method into a continuous research method with this simple framework
The Top 5 Methods of Continuous Discovery & UX Research
See which user research methods make to the top 5 for continuous product discovery.
What Is Continuous UX Research?
What is this new way of doing research and how does it compare with traditional UX research?