Rory Madden

Balancing User Needs with Business Goals in Product Development

Balancing user needs with business goals is key to successful products. At UXDX USA 2024, speakers shared strategies like aligning UX metrics with business KPIs, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and leveraging data to drive decisions, ensuring both user satisfaction and business success.

Press Release

UXDX Supports Laid-Off Tech Professionals in Ireland with Free Conference Tickets

In response to the recent tech layoffs in Ireland, UXDX is offering a helping hand by providing 50 free tickets to its upcoming conference, aiming to upskill professionals and enhance their t-shaped skills.

The Mindset Shift needed to Improve Product Teams

We learn a me-centric mindset early on but this inhibits strong collaboration. Tyler shares practical examples of how to shift to an others-first mindset to build better products.

10 tips for running a hybrid workshop

The best workshops take advantage of the medium that they use - but what if you are using two mediums - in-person and online? We look at the top 10 tips for running a hybrid online and in-person workshop.

A conference as a product: reacting to the hybrid world

Online conferences changed the industry. Hybrid is another big change but by staying focused on the attendee experience we can create events that are better than ever before.

Clarifying the role and responsibilities of the Product Manager

Reviewing the different product manager configurations in companies to identify the challenges and clarify the responsibilities of the role.

Want to Attend UXDX EMEA 2022? Convince Your Boss

Want to attend but don't know how to ask your boss? You're in luck! We've created a handy template for you!

UXDX USA

UXDX USA 2022 Trends: Improving efficiencies in product teams

Functional teams are more efficient in low change environments. But we are in a fast-changing world so companies are looking at new ways to improve product team efficiencies.

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UXDX USA 2022 Trends: Ensure your research lands

How do you ensure that your research doesn't just end up on a shelf? Here are three tips to ensure your research delivers an impact.

UXDX Arrives in New York!

UXDX USA takes place in New York. Here are 10 things to look forward to.

case study

WeighMyRack

A case study on how WeighMyRack upgraded their site to expand their business.

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How DAZN scaled their team using Microfrontends

A case study on how DAZN scaled their frontend teams using microfrontends.

Product Vision

Inspiring Teams with a Way of Working Vision

Starting from first principles we build a vision for a way of working that teams can use to streamline their product delivery.

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How to Measure Efficiency in Software Development

Time and cost metrics lead to inefficient software delivery. Using lean manufacturing as the inspiration, teams have shifted to throughput metrics to track and improve efficiency.

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How do you justify investing in UX?

The traditional answer of gathering data to convince stakeholders doesn't work. Use this UX toolkit to uncover the business pain points and get their buy-in for adopting UX.

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Convincing Your Boss

So you want to attend UXDX but you don’t know how to get your boss onside? We have composed a guide to help prepare you to ask your boss. We even drafted a sample email to send them!

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The Biggest Challenge - Our Focus for 2021

Like nearly everyone else I'm planning out my personal and professional goals for 2020. On the personal front, my goals are pretty standard - get fit, lose weight, travel etc. Covid has impacted all three of those in 2020 but I'm optimistic about the vaccine rollouts. On the professional side,

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What Benefits Do Cross-Functional Teams Really Deliver?

Cross-functional teams deliver better products and less re-work according to the speakers at UXDX 2020 due to continuous delivery, shared understanding and team spirit.

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Lessons learned from 300+ conference talks

Lessons learned on how to give an engaging and highly rated talk from analysing over 300 talks at UXDX.

From Project to Product

Making Product Delivery More Sustainable

To make product delivery more sustainable we need to shift from "predictability" metrics of time and cost to "sustainability" metrics.

DIBBs

Becoming Data Informed

How you can use the DIBBs model to empower autonomous teams and help them to become more data informed.

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Going Online - The Value of a Conference

How do you transition a conference to online but without just doing a webinar? We look at the real customer needs and solutions to satisfy those needs online.

community

How to get the most out of a virtual event?

With the move to virtual events find out how to get the most out of these events from networking, knowledge gathering and knowledge sharing.

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Getting the most from our research data

We've overhauled our systems to help us shift from being data reactionary to data informed. If you've struggled getting the value from your data hopefully this will help.

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“User centered design is obsolete”

User Centered Design is just not enough anymore. Our designs can have impacts far wider than just our users so we need to factor in the full ecosystem when assessing the effectiveness of our work.