Every 2022 Advice Letter You Missed

Dear Designer,

I sincerely appreciate that you read this newsletter week after week. ??

As thanks, I wanted to share a compilation of all the newsletters from 2022.

If you read Beyond Aesthetics on Linkedin, you missed a few newsletters that were sent exclusively via email.

(you can subscribe to the email version here).

Here are all of the newsletters from 2022 sorted by topic:

Sustainability

• Designing websites for sustainability
• The design of really big things

UX Research

• What is atomic UX research?
• What is continuous UX research?
• The methods of continuous UX
• How to squeeze desk research into your day
• Why there's no time for research
• How to talk about users: archetypes vs. personas vs. case study
• Data walls: an essential research tool
• Your go-to interview method
• How Miro does UX research
• You are more than a problem solver
• This research report could have been shorter

Product Discovery

• Product discovery vs. delivery vs. design
• 3 truths of product discovery (and UX)
• 2 ways to design with confidence
• How to design in ambiguity

Experimentation

• Test assumptions, not ideas
• Data-informed vs. inspired vs. driven
• "Let me show you"
• Are your design ideas bad?

Metrics

• Understanding UX Metrics 1
• Understanding UX Metrics 2
• Understanding UX Metrics 3

Strategy

• How to design a UX strategy
• Is UX strategy still relevant?
• "Let's do all the UX stuff"
• The kernel of a good UX strategy
• A tale of UX heresy: business-centric vs. user-centric
• Collaborative UX strategies
• Aligning with a project vision statement
• How to design a strategy

Facilitation

• 5 key elements for building workshops
• The facilitator's mindset for co-creation
• Activity archetypes in workshops
• Workshopping to freelance success
• The power of workshop energizers
• Answering top questions about facilitation
• Co-creation is an approach, not a method
• 3 ways to better planning
• Visual thinking strategies
• 3 risks in design sprints
• Fostering collaboration in your team

Design Leadership

• How to be a design leader
• Initiating innovation projects
• Why introverts struggle with leadership
• Productizing: from designer to leader
• Getting comfortable saying, "I don't know yet"
• Building resilience in your design career

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Jeff Humble

Designer & Co-Founder

The Fountain Institute