UX Teams Courses

• Attend NN/g courses at the UX Conference, or arrange Team Training for your team.

• Facilitating UX Workshops

  How to design and lead goal-based group exercises for collaborative gain

  • Learn how to design and facilitate UX workshops that produce insights to move your project forward
  • Build your skills and gain confidence in workshop facilitation
  • Take home new ideas for collaborative activities and learn how to design UX exercises for specific goals

• Working Effectively in Cross-Functional Teams

  Achieve synergy, not infighting, when collaborating with colleagues from other UX disciplines and with non-UX team members.

  • Unique communication best practices that have been customized for User Experience Professionals
  • Strong influencing techniques specifically targeted for use by User Experience Professionals
  • Quick ways to assess and ramp-up within a cross-functional team
  • How to avoid common mistakes made by UX Professionals in building trust and credibility within cross-functional teams

• Leading Highly Effective UX Teams

  Build and manage a successful UX group; gain influence within the organization

  • Finding the right talent and building strong teams
  • Integrating UX methods within the product lifecycle
  • Leveraging resources that result in the most impact
  • Leading UX initiatives to meet business goals

• Engaging Stakeholders to Build Buy-In

  Get stakeholders on your side to launch the best possible UX design, content strategy, and other design priorities

  • How to get strategic agreement with stakeholders
  • Understanding the stakeholder point of view
  • Stakeholder mapping and other engagement techniques

• Remote UX Design

  Research-driven best practices and frameworks to avoid the biggest challenges and obstacles in the remote design process

  • Create a remote UX playbook to take back to your organization
  • Learn about the most popular and effective tools and methods for remote UX
  • Discover practices and case studies for overcoming the biggest challenges of doing UX design remotely

• Product and UX: Building Partnerships for Better Outcomes

  Explore the differences of UX and product roles (PM and PO) to better collaborate and partner in product development.

  • Clarify UX and product management (PM and PO) roles
  • Help product managers understand how to work with UX
  • Adapt your UX work style to different types of product managers
  • Resolve conflicts to realize the full potential of the partnership

• The One-Person UX Team

  Techniques and strategies to maximize your impact when you are the sole UX professional on your project or in your organization

  • Learn how to structure your user-centered design work in a cost and time-effective way
  • Learn how to prioritize your effort to maximize your value to the company instead of being spread too thin
  • Determine how to communicate and sell your results in your organization to get future funding
  • Learn design and research methods that can adapt to a variety of levels of support and resources