For Managers Courses

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

• Becoming a UX Strategist

  Learning how to envision, plan, and successfully manage user-centered cultures, teams, and organizations

  • Understand what a UX Strategy is 
  • Target who to involve in the creation and execution of your UX Strategy
  • Get started in putting your UX Strategy ideas into action 
  • Learn how to measure and promote the success of your UX Strategy

• Lean UX and Agile

  Applying Lean UX approaches for Agile environments

  • How to incorporate user experience techniques within Agile development
  • Apply Lean UX practices for shipping quality products quickly

• Managing User Experience Strategy

  Design thinking, early UX methods, content strategy, market research, quantitative assessments, process innovation, design patterns, and UX career development

  • Learn the business relevance of user experience
  • Understand essential user experience methods, including design, content and research strategy
  • Review people, organizational and career issues that impact user experience effectiveness
  • Develop a personal plan that is tailored for your particular situation, based on these concepts

• 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

• 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

• Designing Influence

  Getting your best ideas adopted while building trusted relationships

  • Understand the art and the science of influencing 
  • Learn how to select the best method for the context you're in
  • Practice using a wide variety of UX influencing strategies and communication skills

• The UX VP/Director

  Leading UX at the Executive Level

  • Get a seat at the leadership table
  • Deliver a concise, business-focuses articulation of and commitment to user experience
  • Drive business objectives and deliver on corporate goals

• 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