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

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Links for Week 1, 2018

How To Power Down And Find Your #JOMO Flow This Year
Pause. Disconnect. You’re not missing anything, you’re enjoying your life.

10 Product Management Articles You Should Have Read in 2017
Some good nuggets in here…

10 New Principles Of Good Design
Design is an ever-changing field. In a nod to Dieter Rams, Here’s a list of 10 skills designers should strive to have.

UX Research – A dedicated role, or a skill everyone develops? The answer: Yes.
Research can be a skill, or a dedicated role.

Leading Design Research can be a Full Time Job (or not)
At Nasdac, project or organization scale has created the need for dedicated researchers.