Chronologically

1. User personas - don’t let them die…

   Anna Miedzianowska’s advice on keeping personas alive, improving cross-team buy-in, and including them into your daily process.

2. A designer’s guide to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

   Daniel Burka from Google Ventures shares techniques of how to manage misaligned team focus and prevent “bikeshedding”.

3. What makes a good question

   Part of Chris How’s three-parter blog post ’How to get better answers from asking better questions’, this post walks you through 8 top tips for forming better questions for customer and stakeholder interviews, and surveys.

4. Notes from Andy Budd’s UserTesting Webinar

   My notes from Andy Budd’s UserTesting webinar entitled Defeat the status quo - how to run the perfect digital project.

5. The Lean Event — Day One

   Matt Jukes’ live blog notes from day one The Lean Event, Brighton, UK.

6. The Art of Storytelling

   Julie Zhuo talks of the power of story telling, timing and understanding people.

7. Small Team Lean UX Advice From The userexperiencedesign.slack.com Community

   Preserving some sound advice from the userexperiencedesign.slack.com community on small team Lean UX in a mature company with little/no previous user research.

8. Unicorns don’t exist. Generalists do.

   Emmet Connolly from Intercom explains the merits of generalist and specialist designers and who and when to add to your team.

9. The User’s Journey

   Donna Lichaw describes the process of story mapping to discover the “why” of user behaviour and validate design hypothesis.

10. Five reasons why design sprints are the best way to kick off a new product initiative

    Joshua Porter explains the value of research, divergent and convergent design, prototyping and usability testing over an intensive five day design sprint.