Just sharing on behalf of a friend :D

If you're aged 16-30 and have 3-6 minutes to spare, why not give your feedback on landing page designs for a stem cell donation registry?

The link to the test is here - https://t.maze.co/513970774

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En nuestro caso es un nice to have pero en ningún caso mandatory. Me ha sorprendido la pregunta, no tanto las respuestas. #UX #UXR
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En el capítulo de hoy, somos muy buenos en experiencia de usuario #UX y en user research #UXR pero muy malos comunicando.  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/torresburriel_ux-activity-7391843027796897792-Hf5L
#ux | Daniel Torres Burriel

La semana pasada dos personas de empresas diferentes me dijeron cosas parecidas. Uno: “no sabía que trabajabais sistemas de diseño y su implementación”. Otro: “pensaba que mayormente hacíais investigación con usuarios”. Me ha sorprendido, la verdad. No tanto porque no lo sepan, sino porque me ha hecho consciente de que quizás no estamos comunicando bien todo lo que hacemos. Bueno, en realidad para ser sinceros yo sé que comunicamos regular tirando a mal, pero ya no hay excusas. Así que va esto, en plan clarificador: Sí, hacemos investigación con usuarios, user research. Es uno de nuestros puntos fuertes y llevamos años haciéndolo. Pero no es lo único. También diseñamos y construimos sistemas de diseño, y los acompañamos hasta su implementación. No nos quedamos en el Figma; llegamos hasta el código si hace falta. Hacemos consultoría estratégica en diseño. Ayudamos a organizaciones a estructurar sus capacidades de diseño, a crear UX Chapters, a definir estrategias de producto desde la perspectiva del usuario. Diseñamos servicios completos, no sólo interfaces. Service design, blueprints, estrategia de transformación digital. Y formamos equipos y profesionales. Somos los distribuidores exclusivos de la UX-PM Certification en España, y además tenemos programas propios de formación en diferentes niveles. Todo esto desde hace un buen montón de años (14). Con un equipo de 25 personas ahora mismo. Y siendo los únicos españoles en UXalliance, lo que nos da acceso a proyectos y conocimiento de empresas tecnológicas globales. ¿Por qué cuento esto? Porque quizás tú que lees esto ahora tampoco lo sabías. Y si no lo sabes, no puedes contar con nosotros cuando lo necesites. Hacer #UX es universal. Pero hacer negocio alrededor del UX es tremendamente local. Y en ese negocio local, es fundamental que se sepa qué ofreces realmente. De todos modos, cualquier sugerencia que me ayude a diseñar la estrategia de comunicación, es más que bienvenida.

Esto es duro, incluso soóo leerlo. Pero da una perspectiva. #UX #Research #UXR
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btw, wenn du #UserResearch mit besseren Fragestellungen für valide Ergebnisse zur Entwicklung deiner digitalen Produkte brauchst: Ping me. 👋
(Ich kann auch ohne Meckern.)
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Carrying some random research dice - making choices about form of research interaction explicit. #UXR

Blueprints are out, Wind tunnels are in

LLMs collapse the product loop

Two weeks, two side projects, two very different partners: one deep in code, the other steeped in business ops. Building with both made something obvious: large language models aren’t just engineering accelerants. They collapse the entire product loop.

For the past decade, most teams have organized around a trinity – PM, UX, Eng. Because engineering was scarce and expensive, we optimized for engineering leverage. The culture drifted toward documents and handoffs: PRDs, mocks, design docs, reviews. “Handoff” became the milestone; building became the after-party. As a result, learning from customers slid months to the right.

Somewhere in there, “throwaway work” became a slur. Prototyping without a path to production was treated as waste. The best engineers quietly ignored that taboo, hacked something together, and came back with actual signal. Everyone else waited for the next review.

LLMs change the math. They parallelize the trinity and radically reduce the cost of being wrong.

  • PM can draft a crisp one-pager, expand risks and edge cases, and generate three experiment plans in an afternoon.
  • UX can turn that one-pager into clickable flows and alternative microcopy the same day.
  • Engineering can scaffold a fake backend, wire in guardrails, and instrument a demo by day two.

The point isn’t that AI writes production code; it shrinks time-to-signal. Treat prototypes as wind-tunnel models: not for flying, for learning how air hits your wing.

A faster loop, by role

  • PM: Use LLMs to create the first PRD draft, enumerate unknowns, and produce testable hypotheses. Generate interview guides and summary memos so insights move.
  • UX: Translate hypotheses into mid-fi flows, produce microcopy variants, and run task simulations. Build a click/tap-through that captures the core choice you need users to make.
  • Eng: Ask the model for scaffolding, contract tests, and a stubbed data layer. Auto-generate a design-doc outline from code comments as you go. Instrument from day zero.

Run a 72-hour Learning Sprint: build just enough to put in front of five users. Kill fast or iterate. “Throwaway” code is paid research.

Change the scoreboard

If we continue to (over) optimize for engineering utilization, we will keep writing documents. If we optimize for learning, we will ship smaller bets – faster. Here are some metrics that might help you think about it better:

  • cycle time for a validation signal
  • learning velocity (meaningful insights / week)
  • percent of bets killed quickly (and cycle time to bet killing)
  • prototype half-life (time until learnings hit prod)
  • alignment drift (features without a link to a top level outcome)

Make OKRs smaller and more numerous. Measure the loop, not the launch. Celebrate the team that invalidates shiny idea in 3 days.

Regulated shouldn’t mean slow

Finance and health have longer cycles, but the pattern should hold.

  • Try compliance sandboxes with anonymized / synthetic data; log prompts and outputs
  • Learn from the crypto gang: let’s enable policy-as-code gatekeeping for prototypes
  • Generate pre-read packs for the legal and compliance gang to bring them along
  • Get compliance to be part of witness tests to get them to break the prototype

For the long term, we have to bring the regulators along also and we need them to move from blockers -> collaborators.

Make product fun again

The joy of product is the rapid loop: talk to users, build a little, learn a lot. LLMs give that loop back. Use them to parallelize the trinity, to lower the cost of being wrong, and to move learning left. Optimize for time-to-signal, and the rest of the process starts behaving.

Ship the loop, not the doc.

#ai #aiInProductManagemement #design #eng #engineering #llmPrototyping #llms #okrs #pm #pmUxEngineering #prd #product #productLifecycle #productManagement #prototyping #startups #ux #uxr #velocity #visualDesign

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Companies are developing digital tools to help guide professionals toward green material selections. However, user experience (UX) is sometimes an afterthought in the race to get these products to market. This can undrmine the tools' adoption and effectiveness. UX research is the key to ensuring your target audience fully integrates your tool into their regular routine.
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Don't Overlook UX When Building Green Material Selection Tools — Curio Research

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