With more UX and design books being published than ever before, it can be really overwhelming as a newcomer to the field to sort the useful from the downright bad.
I know this because one of the most common questions I’m asked is:
My early-stage design career was… a rollercoaster. There were some incredible people and teams that I got to work with and learn from, and there were, perhaps inevitably, the experiences that scarred me deeply.
Today I’m going to share one of these memories.
It was becoming a familiar pattern. My team were doing frequent research and testing, generating lots of insights into our various user groups.
They were writing up the insights – easily readable documents with main findings for our stakeholders – and presenting back to the whole team. And even better, those insights were being fed back into our designs.
However, a missing link in the process became clear to me during a conversation with one of our developers when, I mentioned something we had discovered in testing, and she said “yes but that was only with 6 users”.