Leadership
Richard Baker
Change Means Progress, Sometimes

Lately my team has been getting frustrated from the shifts and changes in their projects. New constraints, priority shifts, change in project goals, and so on. When it came down to it, the team expected to be able to follow a perfect design process, without shifts.

Change Means Progress, Sometimes
User Experience
Richard Baker
5 Tips to Improve Your UX Team

Building a great UX team is more than just hiring ‘better designers’. Even the best designers will fail if their work environment doesn’t set them up for success. Over the past decade of leading, building, and growing user experience teams, there are five key areas I focus on that result in noticeable and speedy improvements.

5 Tips to Improve Your UX Team
Conference
Richard Baker
Adobe 99U 2019 Recap
Adobe 99U 2019 Recap
Career, Management
Richard Baker
Schedule Time to Focus
Schedule Time to Focus
Management, Career
Richard Baker
Scaling Through Quality
Scaling Through Quality

innovation

Links for Week 4, 2018

Building New Organizational Models to Achieve True Digital Transformation
“People have been shown by Amazon, Google, and even Twitter, how easy things can be. So, they just expect things to work and to be relatively simple.”

Outline
A new (and beautiful) documentation tool. Looks promising.

The UX of AI
“If you aren’t aligned with a human need, you’re just going to build a very powerful system to address a very small—or perhaps nonexistent—problem.”

How to design An Innovation Culture
A webinar video of Alex Osterwalder (Strategyzer co-founder) and Dave Gray (XPLANE co-founder) talk about intentionally designing your corporate innovation culture.

Want To Build A Culture Of Innovation? Master The Design Critique
Successful design critiques is based on honesty and trust. It reminds me this tweet from John Maeda: