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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was. You joined YouTube back in 2008, and you helped guide the company through hypergrowth after its acquisition by Google. This was 2008.

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What’s Make or Break in Game UI Design?

UX Studio: Product Management

A video game review mainly focuses on the storytelling, characters, graphics, and gameplay mechanic, but the user interface is only mentioned when it is critically bad. The UI, the menu system, and navigation within this system are defined by the gameplay’s actual complexity or even the nature of the storytelling.

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A System Administrator’s Journey through multiple IT transformations

eG Innovations

I just looked at his system and said, “Very clearly, there was a network cable disconnected icon there, right on your screen!”. AW : What is your favorite helpdesk ticketing system: ServiceNow, Jira, Autotask, Zendesk, others, etc.? I’ve been following this tool since 2008. He immediately apologized for his impatience.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

Facebook emerged stronger from the 2008 recession. We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. If you’ve been reading my articles in the past you know the system I’m alluding to?—? They take part in reviewing and adjusting team goals. Together we’ll pull through and come out strong.

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Little Otter’s Rebecca Egger on making mental health care accessible to all

Intercom, Inc.

In a heartfelt testimony, Rebecca recalls how her little brother came down with a rare autoimmune brain disorder back in 2008. Rebecca: I’m going to kind of start my journey a little bit earlier and give credit where credit is due. Little Otter and its family-first approach, they believe, is the antithesis of that.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.