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These Are the 10 Best Online Facilitation Training Courses in 2023
Get a breakdown of every online facilitation course that’s worth your time in 2023
5 Ethics Issues for ChatGPT and Design
Read this critical take on the popular AI tool before you adopt generative AI tools
What Is Facilitation? A Definition and Overview
Learn what facilitation actually means, and what it looks like in practice.
How To Build Your Facilitation Skills (and Why You Should)
Learn how to level up your facilitation skills with these 3 actionable strategies.
How to Write User Research Insights [Full Guide + Template]
An in-depth guide to help you write better user insights with lots of examples and a free template
Keeping Track of Your Accomplishments with a Brag Document
How to use a “brag doc” to capture the small wins in your career and get your work noticed
Why Doing Everything is a Bad UX Strategy
Read this case study on failed UX strategy and learn how to avoid common mistakes in strategy work.
How to Use Chat GPT in Your Design Process: 11 Advanced UX Tasks
Learn how to instantly start using AI in your design process using prompts for Chat GPT, a text-based AI tool
10 Ways That UX Research Report Could Have Been Shorter
Are research reports user-centered if nobody reads them? Read on to see how they’re evolving to be more…designed.
The Design of Really Big Things: Planet-Centric Design
How designers are evolving beyond user-centered design to tackle complex problems like climate change + 7 principles to help
I Fight for the User: Business-Centered vs. User-Centered Design
I want to tell you a tale of two worldviews. It’s a story of user-centered ideals. A warning: if you’re new to UX, this story may seem heresy to you.
The Top 10 Senior Design Method Toolkits Online
Find all the best free design method and activity toolkits on the internet, ranked by a lead-level designer
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