A word on ridiculous workloads and deadlines.

This is something I shared via email yesterday with a young lady I’m coaching, and I thought it might be useful to some of you here. The situation she was facing was a ridiculous ask with an equally ridiculous deadline: a clickable hi-fidelity prototype...
Want stakeholder buy-in? See UX their way.

Want stakeholder buy-in? See UX their way.

A few years back, I read a book (whose title I can’t recall) that delivered this absolutely GOLD nugget of wisdom regarding the struggle to get stakeholder buy-in for UX and Design: Most people in management or executive positions can’t truly see what’s broken,...
The (Overlooked) UX Value of Stakeholder Arguments

The (Overlooked) UX Value of Stakeholder Arguments

We’re all on the same side here…aren’t we? In a previous post, I told you a story about me screwing up — and how I lived to tell the tale 😉 A big part of that failure was not doing the work upfront to learn all I could about all the players involved in the project and...
We Need This ASAP: ending unrealistic deadlines

We Need This ASAP: ending unrealistic deadlines

“We need this ASAP.” There is no doubt in my mind you’ve heard this at least once, twice, or six hundred times. Your client, boss or other stakeholder says this has got to be done now, immediately. And in most cases, the team members just shrug their shoulders...