Niklaus Gerber - Issue #134
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TeamKit 🚀
Enhancing team effectiveness by focussing on how teams come together & define the journey ahead. This project is the outcome of my Hyper Island master thesis. TeamKit provides a practical solution for teams everywhere to work towards improving team culture and experience. It is a self-facilitated team formation process, which encourages teams to use the right tools, or methods, during team formation. TeamKit enhances effectiveness by focussing on “how“ teams come together and define their journey ahead. Importantly, TeamKit does not require any prior knowledge in team formation.
Product Design: Expectations vs Reality
When it comes to designing products in the 21st century, we tend to believe that there are new rules that must be learned. Fortunately, that’s not true. Why?
10 diagrams to help you think straight about UX Research
Some of the problems we work on as UX researchers are simple and are easily solved by getting users in front of our product. But other problems can be complex and it’s hard to know how to start solving them. In situations like that, a simple 2x2 diagram can cut through the what ifs, the how abouts and the edge cases and provide a simple way of looking at the problem. Here are 10 examples of 2x2 diagrams to simplify UX research discussions.
Remove Background from Image
Remove Image Background: 100% automatically – in 5 seconds – without a single click. This is a super handy tool if you need to get one of these fancy profile photos with no background and you don’t know photoshop.
Our favorite UX initiatives this year
Fabricio and I are big believers in the power of the design community: sharing knowledge, honing our practice, and bringing a critical perspective on our work. Of course, like any industry that is…