Improving remote team engagement isn’t easy. But it’s essential. Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, remote teams are nothing new for most companies. But effective remote team engagement may remain a struggle. Employees’ expectations about work culture and environments have changed. And it’s not just resignations managers need to worry about. According to Gallup, workforce…
How improving the user experience can help you improve KPIs Successful organizations measure and track results, and organizations that invest in a better user experience are twice as likely to consistently achieve their business goals. Improving the user experience can improve key metrics and help you reach your year-end targets. In fact, user experience design…
Why designers and developers should talk more Designer-developer communication improves product team efficiency. When designers and developers spend more time communicating, it’s easier to keep constraints on top of mind. Designers can also improve their process to ensure the developer can easily understand their decisions and ultimately can create a frictionless experience. There was a…
Combine goals and a team to implement design thinking in your workplace It is important to implement design thinking in your work environment because it helps to simplify complex problems. By thinking like a designer, teams can learn to create human-centered solutions instead of solving problems based on assumptions. It helps to break down key…
Working in a remote UX environment? These tools can help teams optimize processes As the world shifts to remote UX work to combat the novel coronavirus disease, the question has become, “what tools are available?” Fortunately, there are many well-designed tools that facilitate remote teamwork. We implemented remote UX tools at Standard Beagle to help…
Companies that invest in UX design navigate economic downturns by understanding users Companies are worried. Coronavirus is sweeping its way across the globe. As the media covers COVID-19’s spread and impact, companies are feeling the effects. Air travel has reduced, conferences, like SXSW in Austin, have been cancelled, and retailers are seeing a run on…
It can be overwhelming to manage a large book of clients and keep your projects in order, however over the years we have learned about what works for our agency. Over the years we have tried different software systems, and we have come up with a few systems that enhance our team, which ultimately helps…
Do the holidays stress you out? It seems like the countdown to Christmas starts earlier and earlier each year. For my family, we actually start looking ahead to the holidays when my son auditions for a role in The Nutcracker, which takes place in September. And some stores are putting out Christmas merchandise as early…
“Design is everywhere, inevitably everyone is a designer,” says Tim Brown of IDEO. Well, technically yes, everyone is a designer, but does this mean that everyone is a professional designer? No. However we all have our own personal aesthetics, style, even ways we interact online with sites may vary from person to person. It’s this…
Why do people ask designers to work for free? I’ve never understood why people ask me to design for free when they would never ask an architect, interior designer, or coffee shop to hand over a product without expecting to pay. Yet it happens frequently. Clients ask for speculative work and free pitches as a…
Cyber-security is crucial when almost every aspect of our lives is computerized. Security breaches happen often but not many can compare to the scale and severity of the Equifax data breach in 2017. In the span of around 2 months, hackers got ahold of personal information affecting 143 million Americans, roughly 44% of the population….
Sally does all of her wire-frame mock-ups low-fi, while Cindy does her mock-ups in Photoshop. It doesn’t really matter which method you use. It really comes down to the finished product and what the client asks for. Sometimes it’s much faster to do the majority in low-fi and then translate it into high-fi, but for…
Managers who are struggling tend to fall into three different vicious cycles, but there is hope out of at least one of them, and it isn’t hard. At least that’s what I learned from Michael Bungay Stanier, who taught one of the Master Classes at the 2016 99U Conference. According to Stanier, author of The…
Does your company have a social media policy? If not, you should think about implementing one. Stephanie Perkins, an employment attorney with Jackson Lewis, spoke with Standard Beagle all about social media policies. She explained why every company, small or large, needs to have one in place. Perkins recommends that any company who has a…
You know what’s really hard about being in the position I’m in now? I feel like I’m the last to know. I know my team isn’t trying to hide things from me – not maliciously at least. I think I have a great relationship with everyone on my team– better than most leaders. But no…
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