UX Strategy
Articles and writing on how to understand the strategic landscape and align around business goals
Envision the strategic landscape as the map that follows goals from the current to the future state; change pushed by drivers, and resisted by barriers.
Over the course of each day, your team makes a multitude of design decisions. And it's not just designers. Organizations, not designers, design everything. How can the entire team stay aligned? How do we ensure the decisions made by each team member stay aligned with the project's overall vision?
The strategic landscape
Defining your strategy: Current states and future states
Hack your own approach to UX strategy. It’s not the blueprint, canvas, or diagram you use. It’s the conversations you have and the alignment you achieve.
What's blocking change? Organizational barriers.
Before your organization can evolve to the future state, you must design to overcome the barriers to that change.
Why change? Organizational drivers.
An organization won’t spend resources to change without good reason. Drivers explain why you want to move from your current state to your future state.
Goals
Goals and getting to the future state
Goals bridge your current state to your future state. The trick is to differentiate goals and objectives, the direction and the feature.
Align teams around project goals
To work in more agile and lean ways, align your team to the same goals.
Getting to the right goals
There are three types of goals. It's critical to identify the right goals that your team needs to be successful.
Learn more about workshops and collaboration
Collaborative Product Design collects 11 practical tools and hundreds of tips from the trenches that help teams collaborate on strategy, user research, and UX, ideally suited for agile teams and lean organizations.
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