Venessa shows you how to advocate for users in a business setting with a lack of user testing. Covering how to: understand your users, gather metrics, connect data to business goals, and compare/present the data to advocate for design changes.

I sat down with Louis Badcock as he was leaving Cazoo and about to join Runa. We discussed some of his learnings during his time at Cazoo and our thoughts on AI and the future of design.

Being able to timebox design is an essential skill to nail if you are a designer. It is a great way to deliver value fast and to demonstrate how design can be agile. At the heart of timeboxing design are communication and planning; they help to create a shared understanding amongst the team and stakeholders.

Being a designer can be challenging, especially in a cross-functional when you are the only designer. All is not lost, designers often have a lot more power than they think, by using data, insights, and collaboration they can persuade even the toughest stakeholders.

Working in a cross-functional team and collaborating closely with engineers to create great products.

Here are my 5 tips that I have picked up while doing remote sketching sessions over the past year or so.

Understanding insights and themes from across all of our research can be challenging, especially when it sits in different places. So how do you bring it all together to understand what pain points we should focus on?

We can probably all agree that data is an important part of developing a digital product, so how do you gain meaningful insight with limited users and no budget?