UXTW - Week 43, 2021

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UXThisWeek - Issue #43 October, 2021

Articles of the week

Ditch your personas. Here are 17 alternatives you can use If I say persona, you probably have an image in mind of what they look like: a name and a photo, some sliders, a quote, etc. I call these ‘template-personas’ and they are not useful. At best they offer a false promise: research once, reuse everywhere. At their worst, they are misleading us with stereotypes. Here are 17 alternatives you can use.

Mockplus + Jira, a New Level of Seamless Workflow Mockplus integrates with Jira, enabling you to attach a project link to Jira issues for instant access. You can access, preview and communicate all in Jira, making design collaboration more efficient than ever before!

3 Worst Failures You Can Make as a Design Leader Senior design leaders can complement the hypothesis- and framework-based approaches to strategy on which top executives have long (and perhaps overly) relied.

How to create a successful UX case study in 2022 to ace your first interview Perhaps you even landed an interview, but you know it didn’t go well because you stumbled at the very first step of presenting and answering questions on your project. So ...

Make Better Design Decisions with Data Behind every data point, there is a human being. Our job is to translate those numbers to create connections with customers.

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Products of the week

Focus Annotate, discuss, document, iterate & collaborate, all in one accessible place.

Bravostudio The fastest mobile app building platform. Convert your designs into native apps, instantly.

Palitra The easiest way to find a color palette!

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