Getting Up and Speaking Is a Great Skill

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Being able to present your work confidently and explain why you did something is a really great skill. Being able to compellingly tell a story when you're in front of a room of colleagues, stake holders, customers, clients, bosses are yet another very important skill. And then if you can combine that story telling with an ability to facilitate the kind of feedback that is going to help you improve that design, you become, i think, you become an unstoppable designer.

Jeff Gothelf tells us how to be unstoppable designers. He debunks the mythical creature known as Phase 2. He shows us what a designer effectively working in Agile looks like, and enlightens us to how new UX teams can show immediate value. He articulates the need to differentiate between outputs and outcomes. He also motivates us to stay humble and curious since you can teach anyone technical skills, but you can’t teach someone humility and curiosity.

How do Designers Most Efficiently Integrate into Agile? (6:43)
Why is it Important to be a Facilitator? (16:32)
Phase 2: Reality or Myth? (20:45)
How Do You Convince ENGINEERS to Get Out of the Software is Done Mindset? (28:06)
How Do You Convince DESIGNERS to Get Out of the Software is Done Mindset? (31:15)
Why is MVP the Most Bastardized Phrase in Software Development? (33:49)
Why Designers are Scientists Long Before We're Pixel-Pushers (37:34)
How Does a New UX Team Show Immediate Value? (41:17)
What's Your Why? (46:40)
What's Your UX Superpower? (48:23)
What's Your UX Kryptonite? (48:52)
What's Your UX Superhero Name? (49:34)
Invincible UX Tool or Resource? (50:52)
Recommended Books? (51:55)
Best Advice for Aspiring UX Superheroes? (52:45)
Best Way to Connect? (53:45)

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