Survival of the UXiest: Tips for Working on a Distributed Team

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Survival of the UXiest: Tips for Working on a Distributed Team - given at Web Afternoon in Atlanta on 10/04/13.

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Hi, I’m Jacklyn.

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Communicate the value of user experience research.

You’ve got to meet your users IRL.

Get someone to be your main point of contact.

Make all meetings video chat.

Over-communicate as much as possible.

Focus on building relationships digitally.

Maintain those digital relationships.

Use tools to help you test hypotheses remotely.

Educate your team.

Adopt some of the users’ culture.

BONUS: Cupcakes.

Thanks.