UX Roadmaps

"2nd class with Sarah. I'm now a twice-as-better UX'er. Thanks, Sarah."

Lloyd Ocampo, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, USA

"I loved it, excellent content and resources. You can tell the instructor and team behind it put a ton of effort in providing different types of content to support the attendees after the course."

Erika Grijalva, Austin, TX

"As somebody who has never created roadmaps, the course was a great learning experience for me. Sarah paced the course really well by spending a fair amount of time laying good foundations for UX roadmaps covering the purpose, contexts of use, basics of structure and components followed by the process of roadmapping which included helpful hands-on exercises. I really appreciate the fact that instead of a rigid set of info, I was given all the ingredients and armed with methods to cook dishes i.e. building roadmaps, to suit various contexts. Both Sarah and Anna dug deep into their experience to answer really well all the questions that the participants had on the topic. I'm really glad that I took the course. It cleared some major mental blocks that I had about roadmapping. I'm confident that with practice I'll make the most of the learnings and deliver value to teams and organizations that I work with."

Praveen Bandaru, Cognizant, Edinburgh, UK

" Yes, I would highly recommend this course. I literally could not wait to start applying what I learnt in the class to the roadmaps being developed at my workplace."

Nikki Dudhoria, Workday, Pleasanton, USA

"It really helped learning the process through the group exercises and the practice quizzes were really helpful for retaining the information."

Natalia Cudlip, VMware, Los Angeles

"Totally, It was a great course. Content, dynamics and interactions were on point! Sarah is an excellent instructor!"

Sophia, AcidLabs, Santiago, Chile

"I would definitely recommend this course to my colleagues. It was just the right mix of theory and practical demonstration. This has more than met my expectations. I can't wait to get back to work and apply this process in my work."

Sakshi Somani, Fusion Alliance

"Sarah did an excellent job of articulating the processes needed to create a UX roadmap. As well as, moderating and encouraging virtual participation."

Casey Bombacie, San Diego, USA

"I have always been a big fan of Sarah's videos on NN/g website, so I was very excited to attend her course. She is even better in person (remotely, sadly). I love the energy and passion from her during the course. She answered every question with examples/past experiences and it helped me a ton regardless if I was in the situation. After the course, I am now confident in telling what's good vs. bad when managing roadmaps, and coming up with plans to create any roadmap."

Yuan Zhou, Kimberly-Clark, Atlanta, USA

"If you are involved in strategic planning for your team or company, this is a great course to help guide you to success."

 

"Fabulous job by Sarah taking us through the fundamentals of UX roadmaps, this is knowledge I'll be taking to my position and utilizing. Excellent summary for UX folk who have little to mid knowledge on road maps. I'm sad I missed out on the group activities due to my son being sick, but enjoyed the course nonetheless. Shoutout to our moderator Anna too for doing a cracking job , will return next year for more courses!"

Benjamin Sopher, Detection Technologies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

"I loved this course!!!
- Great visuals / slides to tell the story (best looking presentation/course slides ever! really liked it)
- Great instructor!
- Nice balance between theory and practice
- Lots and lots of extra info and research to check out
- Translates great to work life and my own currant need/goals in making a roadmap
Can't wait to start working on our UX roadmap with my co-designers and involving stakeholders in the process of creation. Thanks for a great 2 days!"

 

"Great course, lots of group tasks, complicated quiz!)"

Andriy Vaskiv, Perfectial, Lviv, Ukraine

"I would highly recommend this course to just about anyone -- it's a good exercise in organization, prioritization and planning. Not just UXers but anybody from any profession of all levels would gain value from the materials presented by Sarah."

Jeffrey Yam, Magnite, Torrance

"During the course, you will start seeing all the possible structural flaws of your product's current roadmap and later pass your suggestions to leadership or take ownership of it. The only downside of this course is that's even if it's a top-down approach, all practice and assessment will be on you. So take this course and then practice on your own or with your team."

Yevhen, Settle, Lviv, Ukraine

"100% recommend. It has valuable content (theory and examples) and it focuses on practicality."

Emma Wojcik, TomTom, Utrecht, the Netherlands

"UX Roadmaps was an excellent course that increases efficiency and better alignment with business and user needs."

Jordan Kimura, Irvine, California USA

"Useful overview with a number of valuable frameworks that can be put to use immediately in a variety of circumstances."

Ellen Wixted, Avalara, Seattle, USA

"Practical and guided course walked me through exactly what I feel I needed and our team and org do. I feel equipped and confident to implement our teams first UX roadmap."

Helen Oswald, Procter & Gamble, Newcastle, UK

"This class gives you everything you need to know about roadmapping. I found it extremely valuable to be able to know what is a must-have vs. a nice-to-have, and learned solid processes for building and maintaining a roadmap. The focus on alignment with others and communication of roadmaps throughout the process was the perfect framework for not only driving value through roadmap deliverables, but also for increasing personal professional skills. Sarah was wonderful - an engaging presenter, and I appreciated how much she extended herself to everyone in the class for follow-up questions and providing additional resources."

Cheryl Moran, Bazaarvoice, Austin, TX USA

"I'd say UX Roadmaps is fundamental, regardless of the role you have in the project or company. Having a vision can be easy, but setting a realistic plan based on actual research, shared internal understanding, and defining objectives is the real deal!"

Clara Lavina, Sony PlayStation, London, UK

"If road maps are something you already/want to/should do or are just interested in learning more about, take Sarah's course because she gives you EVERYTHING you need to know about creating, presenting, maintaining roadmaps and then some."

Megan Baker, Slide UX, Austin

"I absolutely benefitted from this course - I think I'll really realize that benefit when I'm able to spend more time with the course materials and apply that to my real-world working life. This was equal parts validation that I have been taking the right approach with roadmaps and extensive additional knowledge on how to approach them (and why)."

Tim Roberts, Webster Bank, Plantsville, CT

"I have read the road map article from NN group in the past and made a road map based on that. But there's so much more to road mapping than just having the road map display your work. I think it is life changing to understand how a road map comes to live to earn buy in and is actually going to be used by the team."

Dirk de Wit, On Air, Utrecht, the Netherlands

"The course is exceptionally designed and comes with a great amount of goodies, templates, and resources for further usage. Everything is well-thought and ready to apply in real-life. I am looking forward to go back to the office and start Road-Mapping for next year."

Myrto Papagiannakou, notallbad, Berlin, Germany

"Yes, definitely recommend it. It helps practitioners establish a framework for UX planning."

Amira Sallam, Manulife, Waterloo, Canada

"The skills I picked up from this course will make my teams' processes and plans much more visible to our stakeholders. As an added benefit, I have some new ideas on how to steer projects toward solving problems and not executing stakeholder requests."

Lea Moon, Charlotte, NC

"Loved the course and the slides were designed VERY well, which made it easy to process the content."

Josh Ibarra, Management Controls Inc., Houston, Texas, USA

"Even if I already had experience with creating roadmaps, there is so much around them regarding strategy, presentation, and engagement that this was a great opportunity to get inspired and aim at improving my skills and contributing to my team more."

Viktoria Tsurova, VMware, Sofia, Bulgaria

"I really enjoyed the collaborative and hands-on aspects."

Matt Chiolino, J. J. Keller & Associates, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

"I would highly recommend this course, I learned a lot and feel I can start using this knowledge right away in my work, lots of examples and resources, great way of explaining staff, encouraging collaboration, I also liked engagement tips cross out the course. Just brilliant."

Hoda Mira, ITWorx, Egypt

"At 1st, I wondered if it was more leadership academic notes, but it is far from that. I came away from the course feeling more confident about the work I can do and want to do for my organisation."

Boon Cheong, Govtech, Singapore

"This course helped me identify differences in roadmaps across departments and how I can utilize a UX roadmap to align with the company's goals."

Paul Cho, Reflex Media, Las Vegas, USA

"Great for strategy-minded practitioners as well those who need to articulate and communicate their current, near-time and future work for themselves, their team and stakeholders. High level it's great for UX teams of 1, but the details and examples would be excellent for larger and broader teams of 10+, too."

Jason Chiu, Export Development Canada, Ottawa, Canada

"Massive amount of information, however, when you go through the day you don't feel overwhelmed by it, You don't realize how much material is there - I only noticed after the whole day, when reviewed the Presentation PDF how much did I learn in one day! Amazing. Cannot recommend highly enough. And all of that is presented in very professional fashion, with some funny bits, answering all the questions very thoroughly and patiently. Overall great course. Thank you."

Bart Nowak, BartNowak.com, London, UK

"I was able to use the material she taught immediately. Being a UX team of one design and one junior, this makes it easier to teach other teams how to utilize our skill set and chart a course for success."

Laura Pinell, Calcium Brand Nourishment, Philadelphia, PA

"This class gave me the tools, resource and ideas to go forward in carving out my own process for roadmapping with my team, without being overly prescriptive about a certain method or tool."

Heather McGeachy, Mozilla, Portland, Oregon, USA

"This is a business tool and is treated and teached as such. Go for it if you need to improve your leadership practice or you want to understand better that part of the trade."

Regalado Montoya Momtes, Santiago, Chile

"Yes I would recommend this course, it showed multiple templates that a creator can choose from and customize based on their road mapping needs. I wasn't aware there were so many possible ways to do this. All the templates were much easier to look at than the roadmaps my company has been using."

Lucy L, Synchrony, Columbus, OHIO

"Super practical information, super applicable. I can see how I would apply it to my job tomorrow. Can't wait to use what I learned on a client project!"

Sara Riedel, ZoCo Design, Columbus, USA

"Sarah is an amazing presenter and organized in her resources supplied to class. The content was great and I learned a great deal!"

Scott Sears, Maplewave, Lower Sackville

"It's a whole new way of planning and allocating resources. So useful and with so much potential for communication within and outside the organization."

Laura Riva Palacio, Jonajo Consulting, Chihuahua Mexico

"Extremely useful course to understand what a roadmap really should be and why, where and how to start Roadmapping. The exercise sessions are great to start practising what just learned."

Samuel, Belka S.r.l., Trento, Italy

"Its a good course to understand all the tools and methods of creating your future roadmap and start organizing your work."

Bander Alhusaini, Mobily, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"Some of it reinforced what I already knew but the class helped me through some of the pitfalls I could experience working with a team to create the roadmap. Actually going through the steps of creating a roadmap with a small group was beneficial."

Jillian Hudson, XPO Logistics, Charlotte, USA

"Great class for anyone who needs to align their work with multiple design and product stakeholders."

Tom Resing, Microsoft, Kirkland, WA, USA

"This is a phenomenal course which sharpens your skillset as a UX Manager, Strategist and well-rounded practitioner. I loved how we were given practical tools and process to begin implementing our own roadmaps today."

Devin Harold, Verizon, New York City, USA

"Sarah did an excellent job of breaking out when and where to use a roadmap. This course was also very helpful in helping me understand how to determine what should go in the roadmap and the level of granularity that may or may not be needed, depending on what you're trying to communicate through it and to whom."

Karen McArthur, Project Management Institute, United States

"This course will prepare you to plan, co-create and present an actionable, outcome based roadmap. I learned as much from the excellent content as from Sarah's pearls of wisdom about facilitation and strategic communication."

Claire Regan, Dell, Dublin, Ireland

"Lots of great examples and practical exercises which really help with absorbing and understanding the content."

Claire Edwards, Johannesburg, South Africa

"Take it! Anna is awesome!"

Kim Trivedi, Salesforce.org, Denver, CO, USA

"If your company doesn't make roadmaps, or there is still chaos within your UX and dev teams because of lack of vision, take this course. Leaders need to take this course!"

Esther, 3M, St Paul, MN, USA

"I've learned plenty of stuff. My company is doing product roadmaps and I'm using Trello to organize my team, but now I know how to link everything without losing my mind."

Amelie Jacques, Intact IFC, Montreal

"Definitely for anyone in the research or design fields thinking about how their work fits into the bigger pic. But also for product managers and start-ups in general."

JESSICA TOTH, Luz Inc, Pittsburgh USA

"This is a great class to get your team and leadership on the same page."

Brittany, Government, United States

"A great step by step course to improve road maps."

Michael W. Boyce, U.S. Army, West Point, NY

"I had a completely different idea of roadmaps, for sure I will start applying the learning from today and implement them in my products."

Nicoletta Pizzocheri, Nestlé, Milan, Italy

"A perfect balance between theory and practice. I would highly recommend this course to every UX practitioner, regardless of their role or background. It is a firm step towards speaking, understanding, and strengthen connections with "business"."

Nora Rumenova Radeva, Solar Danmark A/S, Kolding, Denmark

"A very comprehensive view on the world of roadmapping. You get an overview on the goals, structure and benefits of roadmaps and also an idea, when to use which type of roadmaps. The theory is complemented by practical exercises, in which the teams can perform the necessary steps to build their own roadmap. I found the course a great learning experience. Also, I had never used the tool miro before, but quickly became comfortable with it. Thumbs up!"

Annika Johnsen, ISO Group, Nuremberg, Germany

"I did benefit from taking this course and I plan to immediately start to Roadmap!"

Colin Sanders, NHS Education for Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

"If you see a gap around roadmaps, alignment, and "transparency" around questions like, "Where are we actually going?"... this course is for you and your team. For those who are experienced with roadmaps or have seen them done fairly well, but perhaps inconsistently... this is a great course to empower you to help your team to step up to the next level of clarity and direction."

Amy Allar, Pennsylvania Interactive, NIC Division of Tyler Technologies, Harrisburg, USA

"Highly recommended course, it provided me a holistic view on making UX Roadmaps and great tips for alignment, presentation, and sharing. Sarah gave us so many practical tips and tricks that will really make an impact when bringing this knowledge back to my work and my team."

Esteban Angulo, TINYpulse, Quito, Equador

"Definitely a must take for designers who are UX lead for their products and wants to weigh in with the Product owners and product managers on the product strategy and direction."

Talia, Singapore

"Looking for actionable steps to lead your team through goal setting and creating strategic focus—this is the one for you. It's really comprehensive and will definitely get you from where you are to where you need to be."

Olusegun Adebajo, Rocket Homes, Detroit, US

"This course validated many things that I've done before and provided a ton of additional value. Whether you have never done a roadmap before and are working as a team of two, or you are trying to get alignment in a corporation with multiple teams and stakeholders, Sarah provides a wealth of detail and information. No matter your experience level it's valuable information that any design leader should know. The package provided along with the course includes actionable templates and the case studies were outstanding."

Meghan Dove, MDove Design, Montreal, Canada

"Offers a detailed and easy-to-follow playbook for UX roadmapping and planning. The course activities offer hands-on application of the concepts taught and a great way to cement the knowledge with coaching and support."

Tracy Tong, Aviso Wealth, Vancouver, Canada

"I understood where to start while planning bigger initiatives with my colleagues. I loved that. I hope to gain more confidence at my workplace with proactively bringing this type of activities. Thank you, Sarah."

Malgorzata Perrien, Paris, France

"Fantastic, practical step-by-step guide to creating roadmaps. Great resources, great instructor and I can go back to the office and start my roadmapping plan right away with all of this in hand!"

Marla Gomez, Intel, Beaverton, OR, USA

"Lots of "AHA" moments during and after the course. Able to see things from totally different perspectives such as roadmapping vs roadmap and pitfalls during roadmapping that are not commonly being known. Totally worth it to attend the course!"

Esther Ng, Sime Darby Plantation, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

"If you're a member of a UX or product team that helps with strategy, this course is extremely valuable."

Frank Ramos, Under Armour, Austin, USA

"Take it! I have a much richer understanding of UX roadmaps, their purpose, and how they differ from product roadmaps, feature lists, requirements, etc. No solutions!! Problem focused. Great to pair with the Discoveries: Building the Right Thing course."

Brandie Moore, American Fidelity, Oklahoma USA

"This is an excellent course for not only learning about UX Roadmaps but also Product roadmaps in general, their history, how they are related and what common pitfalls there are. You also get a detailed process on how to start your own roadmapping work, which is invaluable!"

Mari Tyllinen, Oy Apotti Ab, Helsinki, Finland

"First course at NN/g, I already booked courses for my team leads and I will continue to send my team members in the future, I'll tell them how qualitative the course was. I liked how the instructor was mastering her subject and how seamlessly she delivered knowledge to the audience."

Abderrahmane Abdallahoum, Leboncoin group, Paris France

"This course will blow your mind and completely change the way you think about UX Roadmaps. Normally when we think of roadmaps, we might think of it in terms of showing who is working on what project and timelines. Anna taught us that a UX Roadmap should be "Outcome or Problem to be Solved". That way, the teams are working on projects toward the greater goods of getting the ideal outcomes for the customers. I also appreciate the time that Anna took to put together a great toolkit for us to refer to, as well as comparing for us tools that might do the job. Highly recommended!"

Heather J Brown, BECU, Seattle, WA USA

"Very helpful for communicating UX work to stakeholders/management and integrating UX into a broader, multi-disciplinary product development lifecycle."

Andrew Carnes, IT Consulting Firm, Alexandria, VA

"Really useful content and practical frameworks. I really loved meeting other UX professionals from across the world in my breakout room and getting to know them."

Catherine Beer, AQA, Camberley

"I loved the content and the facilitation. I will surely use the tools presented in the course and upgrade my palette of UX tactics for my business."

Alecsandru Grigoriu, Leonnade Studio, Iasi, Romania

"Extremely thorough course on UX roadmaps! I feel very prepared now to take what I've learned back to my organization. I'm especially thankful for all the examples and templates provided."

Arienne Walters, By Light, Elko, NV USA

"Very nice and helpful, full of practical tips and many eye-opening moments that it can be done even without special tools."

Johana Horáková, ŠKODA AUTO, Mladá Boleslav

"You will be surprised how Raodmaps can be users oriented and how they need to be reinvented, and it's exactly what you will learn in this course."

Elodie Zini, Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, Montreal

"This course is extremely valuable. Exceeded my expectations! Best class of the week."

Huma Wadood, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas, Frisco

"Whether or not you have prior knowledge of roadmap creation, this course will help you learn a clear, structured, and goal-oriented approach that can be easily adapted to a variety of needs. I really liked the great instructor, who tries to address every question and provides valuable input along the way."

Barbara, BSH Hausgeraete GmbH, Germany

"Really well structured course, definitely the best I've had so far from NN. In terms of examples, hands on steps, practicing it directly, right pace, content and more. I feel inspired and have the right methods to get going!"

Theo, Accenture Interactive, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"I was extremely impressed by not only Sarah's UX knowledge, but also her teaching style. She successfully went through a significant amount of information in relatively short period of time; and I felt very engaged the entire class, largely because of her great facilitation and insights."

Ryan Edgren, SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, Mission Viejo

"I loved the 'learning by doing' approach."

Bart De Pelsmaeker, Readz, Agoura Hills

"Sarah is very knowledgeable and provided hands-on exercises and an extremely rich material. She was able to touch on so many different aspects of the UX roadmapping and skillfully mastered the time. It was beneficial to understanding the process from A to Z, even to the presentation tips."

Nayla Sabbagh, Horizontal, Dubai

"Highly recommend it if you are looking for practical skills and technics to know how, why, when, and with whom you can/should create a roadmap!"

Salman Farsi, SAP

"I would recommend this course to everyone who wants to influence the future of his/her area or product. By far the top course I took in NN/g so far."

Vladimir Shapiro, Blue Yonder, Hoffenheim, Germany

"Do it, it's an in depth explanation and step by step process on UX Road maps. Super helpful. I liked the practical aspect, the polls, exam practice and Sarah's dog is very cute 😍 "

Charlene Brown, Government of Jersey, St Brelade Jersey

"Definitely in to learn a lot!"

Boris Ralic, Smallpdf, Belgrade

"I'd tell people to take it but it is advanced, so you might want to have taken other courses first to give necessary context. If you have UX experience it's very valuable."

Charles Wyke-Smith, Doxy.me - telemedicine for all, Charleston, SC, USA