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Lean Methods for the UX Team of One

Leah Buley

Experience Designer, Adaptive Path

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UX teams of one have unique challenges. Fewer resources. Creative isolation. Organizational resistance. And of course, time. A team of one has 40 hours in a week to build a UX practice. A team of five has 200. Many of the stock methods that UX teams of one use are painstaking and time-intensive. But they don't have to be.

You need to evolve design ideas quickly. One way is to get together with other designers and brainstorm. This works because team structures have naturally creative properties. But even when you don’t have a group of other design professionals at your disposal, it’s still possible to achieve the benefits of team-thinking by adapting the methods of larger user experience groups.

In this seminar, Leah Buley takes the next steps from her popular UI Conference featured talk. She digs deeper into the common situations that UX teams of one face, and she shares an inventory of lean approaches that have big impact and take less time than the standard lineup of UX deliverables.

Leah Buley will discuss some of the lightweight techniques that Adaptive Path uses, and show how to put them to use as a team of one. She’ll show you a purposeful, modular approach to methods that make it easy to speak concretely about what you’ve been working on, and the benefits it brings. It also makes it easier to finish what you start.

Why Leah Buley?

While we’d heard of Leah’s work, first at Barclay’s and then at Adaptive Path, we really weren’t aware of her talents until we saw her present at the IA Summit a few years back. We’d walked into her session—the largest room at the conference venue—to discover the only place to sit was on the floor, right up near the front. It was that full.

Within moments, we knew why. Her delightful presentation style, along with her in-depth expertise, made for an intoxicating session. We just couldn’t get enough.

At the same time, we’d been hearing great things about the approach Adaptive Path was using for their design workshops. Teams everywhere were telling us how it was pushing the envelope on their design capabilities, delivering better results than ever before.

In 2009 and 2010, Leah’s full day workshop, and her featured talk: How to be a User Experience Team of One, were among the highest-rated both years. We knew having her talk more about the Team of One concept—a challenge many of you face— would make for a great virtual seminar.

We might have saved the best for last, as this is our last regular UIE Virtual Seminar for 2010. Don’t miss it. This one is sure to sell out.

Purchase the RECORDING $149

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