Johan Berndtsson
January 2, 2025
Here are the Ambition Empower topics for January (starting January 6th, 2025). If you’re not a member already, we’d love to have you onboard! Sign up here, and reach out to Jane Murray, or Nathalie Tindsjö if you have questions.
DesignOps with Georgiy Chernyavsky
Foundations of DesignOps: DesignOps plays a vital role in enabling efficient and effective design practices. This month, we’ll dive into the core principles, frameworks, and strategies that empower design teams to streamline processes and deliver greater value.
Design Research with Steve Portigal
AI and User Research: AI, an umbrella term for many different techonlogies, has captured our attention for its potential to impact many aspects of our lives. For user research, as with many other areas, we might be feeling some mix of caution, curiosity, fatigue, confusion, and excitement (among others, no doubt). This month, we’ll look at a range of perspectives and advice and form our own perspective.
Design Leadership with Kim Goodwin
Building a Team – Hiring: Hiring the right people at the right time is a crucial part of building a successful team. Whether you’re a hiring manager or part of the process, this month we’ll focus on evidence-based practices to reduce bias and improve your success in finding the best candidates.
UX Writing and Content Strategy with Torrey Podmajersky
Improve Accessibility with UX Content: Accessible and inclusive design is more important than ever in creating digital products. This month, we’ll focus on how UX content can enhance accessibility, helping your products meet and exceed growing standards for inclusivity.
UI Design and Prototyping with Figma with Georgiy Chernyavsky
Great Figma Habits: Designing better experiences starts with great habits. This month, we’ll explore foundational UI design concepts in Figma, dive deeper into advanced techniques, and push Figma’s limits to create more efficient and effective workflows.
AI and Design with Pontus Wärnestål
Designing for Imperfection: In AI-powered systems, machine learning models are never perfect – they inevitably produce false positives and false negatives. This month we will explore how designers can understand and address these inaccuracies to create robust and usable experiences.
Service Design with Chris Risdon
Ecosystems in Service Design: Ecosystems and systems thinking are essential to designing effective services. This month, we’ll explore what defines an ecosystem, how to communicate its components, and how to apply this understanding to improve service design.
Behavioral Design with Susan Weinschenk
Unconscious Decision-Making: Research shows that most decisions are made unconsciously, with the brain working behind the scenes. This month, we’ll delve into the latest findings on decision-making and explore what they mean for design.
Product Management with Kim Goodwin
Making Good Decisions: At the heart of product management is the ability to help organizations make, deliver on, and learn from great decisions. This month, we’ll explore what defines a “good” product decision, how individuals and organizations approach decision-making, and the critical role PMs play in guiding the process.
If you’re not a member already, we’d love to have you onboard! Sign up here, and reach out to Jane Murray, or Nathalie Tindsjö if you have questions.