User experience is a great career. Whether we’re talking about UX Strategy (opportunity side) or UX Design (solution side), helping people experience the feelings they want to have is a fulfilling way to spend one’s time. We’ve built many UX teams and we’ve learned a lot along the way.
Two Common UX Mistakes
Oscar Wilde once said, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Additionally, Albert Einstein once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” We treat mistakes as a great source of learning. User experience is a relatively new undertaking in our clients’ typical foci of websites, apps, and Saas offerings. Thus, we learn a lot from early mistakes.
Four Questions to Help with Your Next UX Hire
User experience isn’t a quantifiable product or outcome as much as it is a feeling. It’s the feeling a user has as a result of experiencing a product. In our clients’ case, this product is most often a website, app, or a SaaS offering. A UX professional enables the experience and feelings the user wants to have.
8 Reasons to Create a 90-Day New Hire Success Plan
Mark Twain once said, “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Picture a horse race: there’s an all-out battle to the finish line, which ends mere minutes after the start of the race. Generally, competitors who leave the gate well also finish well.
Top 10 Mistakes In Digital Transformation
Al Franken once said, “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your ‘mistakes’ for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” Digital transformation is not for the faint of heart. Mistakes and missteps are easy to come by, but many failures are also easily avoided. Here are ten mistakes to avoid in your digital transformation journey:
Hire Above Your Weight Class
In boxing, we hear the phrase “punching above their weight” in reference to a fighter who hits harder than others in their weight class.
5 Tips For Hiring Social Media Professionals
Stellar media content and strategy converts strangers into fans and fans into customers. Social media professionals require different skills depending on the role, organization, and project.
Do You Have a Fixed Mindset or a Growth Mindset? How to Leverage Each to Boost Your Career
You may have heard about the two types of mindsets, Fixed and Growth, in recent years. According to the research conducted by Carol Dweck, author of the book Mindset, the two mindsets can have an impact on career performance.
5 Resume Rules That Get You The Interview
Imagine that you sell toys. If your goal is to get the attention of children, you will probably focus on the toy’s bright colors, the sounds it makes, and how fun it is to play with.
Four P’s of Staffing a Digital Transformation Team
Welcome to our discussion on building and staffing your digital transformation team. Let’s start by aligning on a common definition of digital transformation. Being simple people, we like to define things simply. For the purposes of this post, we will simply define digital transformation as the application of current technologies to improve relationships with organizational stakeholders.
Five Keys to Optimizing a Remote Sales Team
The record player was once the foremost way of consuming music. The record was removed from its sleeve, placed in the record player, and the needle was set just right. Records were awesome in their day. But skip a few tracks into the future and they’re antiquated. Now, we search and download music with just a few clicks. We create our own playlists with ease and we carry them everywhere. Music has advanced.
When to Hire a Digital Marketing Recruiter
Former NFL Head Coach Chuck NollM once said, “If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them, day in and day out.” Most organizations struggle with the question of how to best leverage the web in their business. In order to leverage the web, your organization’s digital marketing efforts need to be optimally staffed.
Cultural Fit in Emerging Growth Companies
One of my hobbies is mixed martial arts. My friends and family think I’m a little crazy, but I can’t help enjoy the training, and of course, the fighting. One thing I’ve learned is that fighting a smaller, faster guy can be very frustrating. They can be hard to hit, they strike quickly, and they’re gone before you can return fire.
4 Powerful P’s To Help You Build Your Digital Marketing Team
Owning, building, and selling a successful digital marketing company taught us a host of valuable lessons. Subsequently going through a merger and acquisition, as a result of selling a digital marketing firm, taught us even more. We’ve had the privilege of helping dozens of organizations properly build and staff their digital and integrated teams.
Four Things To Consider When Hiring From an Established Competitor
As an emerging company, it can be tempting to hire someone from a mature, established competitor or to recruit someone with a big title from a big company. However, recruits from mature, slow moving, well-established enterprises often do not survive at faster, more agile, more adaptable emerging technology companies.
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