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Improving Communication and Collaboration Through Critique
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Silas Brahams
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Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback". In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a framework for helping members of your design team give and receive critique.
Using firsthand stories and lessons from prominent figures in the design community, this book examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of feedback. You’ll come away with tips, actionable insights, activities, and a cheat sheet for practicing critique as a part of your collaborative process.
This book covers:
- Best practices (and anti-patterns) for giving and receiving critique
- Cultural aspects that influence your ability to critique constructively
- When, how much, and how often to use critique in the creative process
- Facilitation techniques for making critiques timely and more effective
- Strategies for dealing with difficult people and challenging situations
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Design for How People Think
- Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
- By: John Whalen PhD
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience. Corporate leaders, marketers, product owners, and designers will learn how cognitive processes from different brain regions form what we perceive as a singular experience. Author John Whalen shows you how anyone on your team can conduct "contextual interviews" to unlock insights.
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Thx
- By Huntress Janos on 05-09-24
By: John Whalen PhD
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UX Research
- Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products
- By: Brad Nunnally, David Farkas
- Narrated by: Charlie Krone
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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One key responsibility of product designers and UX practitioners is to conduct formal and informal research to clarify design decisions and business needs. But there’s often mystery around product research, with the feeling that you need to be a research Zen master to gather anything useful. But anyone can conduct product research. With this quick reference guide, you’ll learn a common language and set of tools to help you carry out research in an informed and productive manner.
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Excellent Overview of UX Research
- By Rob Stern on 02-16-22
By: Brad Nunnally, and others
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Herding Tigers
- Be the Leader That Creative People Need
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Successful leaders of creative teams have mastered the difficult transition from doing the work to leading the work, and this book shows how. Todd Henry picks up where The Accidental Creative left off and provides an indispensable handbook of on-the-ground, tactical advice for new managers of creatives.
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Todd Henry is always on point for brilliance
- By Amazon Customer on 11-11-18
By: Todd Henry
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Laws of UX
- Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
- By: Jon Yablonski
- Narrated by: Jason Leikam
- Length: 3 hrs
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This practical guide explains how you can apply key principles in psychology to build products and experiences that are more intuitive and human-centered. Author Jon Yablonski deconstructs familiar apps and experiences to provide clear examples of how UX designers can build experiences that adapt to how users perceive and process digital interfaces.
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Perfect for new designers
- By Evelene Montano on 06-24-23
By: Jon Yablonski
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Articulating Design Decisions
- Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
- By: Tom Greever
- Narrated by: Ric Chetter
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will never see the light of day - no matter how good it is. This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs.
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A must for any UX Designer!
- By Michael on 04-05-22
By: Tom Greever
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User Story Mapping
- Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
- By: Jeff Patton, Peter Economy - foreword
- Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why.
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Straw man arguments and handwaving
- By Amazon Customer on 01-02-22
By: Jeff Patton, and others
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Design for How People Think
- Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
- By: John Whalen PhD
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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User experience doesn’t happen on a screen; it happens in the mind, and the experience is multidimensional and multisensory. This practical book will help you uncover critical insights about how your customers think so you can create products or services with an exceptional experience. Corporate leaders, marketers, product owners, and designers will learn how cognitive processes from different brain regions form what we perceive as a singular experience. Author John Whalen shows you how anyone on your team can conduct "contextual interviews" to unlock insights.
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Thx
- By Huntress Janos on 05-09-24
By: John Whalen PhD
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UX Research
- Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products
- By: Brad Nunnally, David Farkas
- Narrated by: Charlie Krone
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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One key responsibility of product designers and UX practitioners is to conduct formal and informal research to clarify design decisions and business needs. But there’s often mystery around product research, with the feeling that you need to be a research Zen master to gather anything useful. But anyone can conduct product research. With this quick reference guide, you’ll learn a common language and set of tools to help you carry out research in an informed and productive manner.
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Excellent Overview of UX Research
- By Rob Stern on 02-16-22
By: Brad Nunnally, and others
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Herding Tigers
- Be the Leader That Creative People Need
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Successful leaders of creative teams have mastered the difficult transition from doing the work to leading the work, and this book shows how. Todd Henry picks up where The Accidental Creative left off and provides an indispensable handbook of on-the-ground, tactical advice for new managers of creatives.
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Todd Henry is always on point for brilliance
- By Amazon Customer on 11-11-18
By: Todd Henry
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Laws of UX
- Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
- By: Jon Yablonski
- Narrated by: Jason Leikam
- Length: 3 hrs
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This practical guide explains how you can apply key principles in psychology to build products and experiences that are more intuitive and human-centered. Author Jon Yablonski deconstructs familiar apps and experiences to provide clear examples of how UX designers can build experiences that adapt to how users perceive and process digital interfaces.
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Perfect for new designers
- By Evelene Montano on 06-24-23
By: Jon Yablonski
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Lean UX
- Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
- By: Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Lean UX is synonymous with modern product design and development. In the third edition of this award-winning book, authors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden help you focus on the product experience rather than deliverables. You'll learn tactics for integrating user experience design, product discovery, agile methods, and product management. And you'll discover how to drive your design in short, iterative cycles to assess what works best for businesses and users. Lean UX guides you through this change - for the better.
By: Jeff Gothelf, and others
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Product Roadmaps Relaunched
- How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty
- By: C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and others
- Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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A good product road map is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy. This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product road map, and demonstrates how to use the road map to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests. With it, you’ll learn to communicate how your products will make your customers and organization successful.
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Almost 0 example images (1 table PDF)
- By Steve Soos on 10-17-22
By: C. Todd Lombardo, and others
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Making Things Happen
- Mastering Project Management
- By: Scott Berkun
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere.
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The deep analysis and vivid examples.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-27-24
By: Scott Berkun
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UX Strategy
- Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions
- By: Jaime Levy
- Narrated by: Jaime Levy
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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User experience (UX) strategy lies at the intersection of UX design and business strategy, but until now, there hasn't been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight product strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team devise innovative digital solutions that people want.
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Handbook for beginners, not suited for audio
- By Martin Valdez on 05-24-22
By: Jaime Levy
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Escaping the Build Trap
- How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
- By: Melissa Perri
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small.
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Distractingly soft narration
- By Heather Henderson on 01-21-21
By: Melissa Perri
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Product Management in Practice
- A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century
- By: Matt LeMay
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Product management has become a critical connective role for modern organizations, from small technology startups to global corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product management is about building products that people love. The real-world practice of product management is often about difficult conversations, practical compromises, and hard-won incremental gains.
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Clear, realistic, well written and narrated... a must for any aspiring or active PMs
- By Pablo Azcurrain on 03-08-21
By: Matt LeMay
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Designing for Behavior Change (2nd Edition)
- Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
- By: Stephen Wendel
- Narrated by: Danny Hughes
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Designers and managers hope their products become essential for users-integrated into their lives like Instagram, Lyft, and others have become. Such deep integration isn't accidental: it's a process of careful design and iterative learning, especially for technology companies. This guide shows you how to apply behavioral science—research that supports many products—to help your users achieve their goals using your product.
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Good overview of the discipline
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-24
By: Stephen Wendel
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Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams (Second Edition)
- By: Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award-winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process.
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The standard for all design teams
- By billsensei on 05-05-22
By: Jeff Gothelf, and others
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Learning Agile
- Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
- By: Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
- Narrated by: TJ Johnson
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Learning Agile is a comprehensive guide to the most popular agile methods, written in a light and engaging style that makes it easy for you to learn. Agile has revolutionized the way teams approach software development, but with dozens of agile methodologies to choose from, the decision to "go agile" can be tricky. This practical book helps you sort it out, first by grounding you in agile's underlying principles, then by describing four specific - and well-used - agile methods: Scrum, extreme programming (XP), Lean, and Kanban.
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Go Agile!
- By Mark Maggiitti on 03-21-24
By: Andrew Stellman, and others
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Org Design for Design Orgs
- Building and Managing In-House Design Teams
- By: Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner
- Narrated by: TJ Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies building in-house digital/experience design teams at unprecedented rates, but many of them don’t understand how to get the most out of their investment.
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Awful narration
- By Elliott on 08-12-22
By: Peter Merholz, and others
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Coders at Work
- Reflections on the Craft of Programming
- By: Peter Seibel
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian, full cast
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
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Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’ highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting.
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Great book
- By Jay on 05-30-22
By: Peter Seibel
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Introduction to Design Thinking for UX Beginners
- 5 Steps to Creating a Digital Experience That Engages Users with UX Design, UI Design, and User Research. Start Building Your UX Career
- By: Uijun Park
- Narrated by: Clayton Masales
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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Engaging users is essential to every area of online business... Discover everything you need to know to make sure that happens. Are you considering a career in UX design? Or maybe you collaborate with UX designers and don’t fully understand what it is they do…It’s a field that flummoxes many people because it’s such a fast-growing industry, and if you have no background in design, it can seem like an intimidating field to break into.
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Ready for intermediate!
- By chen06 on 05-09-24
By: Uijun Park
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- Duncan Robertson
- 08-03-21
Great tips on getting and taking feedback
"Discussing Design" is a must-read for designers new and old who have ever struggled with feedback.
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- A. Yoshida
- 07-19-22
Good Foundational Book
This is a good foundational book on getting feedback on design or more specifically critique (why the design doesn't work and how it can be improved). This is different from feedback that is based on reactions or preferences (like "there are too many fields to fill out" or "those colors are ugly").
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- Anton Nikolov
- 04-22-21
Good book on discussing design
To be honest I was expecting more of the book, a lot of the main points can be found in a few articles. Still enjoyed the content and it was useful to repeat the fundamentals again. Could be nice if the cheatsheet and extra materials are accompanying the audio book!
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- Michael Bilodeau
- 03-28-24
A few very important points for running successful critiques in any field of design.
I liked the sharp clear points, well supported with a lot of common sense reminders for even the most experienced designers to keep in mind. Pointing out the value from many angles and detailing all of the threats to successful collaboration helps bring the reader understand just how challenging it is to do well.
I couldn't tell if the narration was just a bit dry or if it was due to the writing, but the flat delivery, paired with the repetition of words and points sometimes made it easy to find my mind wandering.
This content is so important that I want to recommend it to others, unfortunately, I have to caveat the repetition so they can appreciate the message.
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