Producing UX Studio

UX Studio allowed designers to get together for an hour every Thursday morning, either physically or virtually (especially, for those based outside New York in Hyderabad, India and Alpharetta, Georgia) to review and discuss work in progress or carry out an activity to learn more about UX.

UX Studio was one of the few weekly occasions in which designers could get together and discuss or do all things UX. It provided the team members with a camaraderie support and safe space in which to express their design work and thoughts. Examples of Studio sessions included; design walkthroughs, user research briefings and taught techniques such as storytelling, UX planning, persona building etc..

Coaching at Research Camp

Research Camp was a cross-product domain guild for people (including designers, developers and product) with a shared interest in how research can drive better outcome for users. Together with three other UX Product Design Leaders, I prepared Camp sessions on a bi-weekly basis. Sessions included hands-on research technique workshops, peer reviewing of test scripts and prototypes and research briefing presentations.

The key mission for the Research Guild was to include and empower the community to make an impact through research by collectively growing, improving research skills and evangelizing research to the larger organization however possible.

Onboarding New Designers

We wanted to welcome newly hired or federated designers from other parts of ADP with open arms. The plan to achieve this included updating the candidate questionnaire to be more culturally adding vs ‘fitting’, an onboarding program on how we operate to ensure effectiveness and success and last but not least, ensuring continued career growth through an open education policy.