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How to manage stakeholder expectations around UX/UI design in B2B SaaS
In B2B SaaS, aligning stakeholders around UX/UI design can be one of the toughest challenges product leaders face. Unlike consumer products, where decisions are often driven by direct user feedback and iterative improvements, B2B products must balance the needs of enterprise clients, technical constraints, business goals, and user experience - all within the same roadmap.
Designing for diverse users: how to balance multiple personas with business goals
As digital products become more integral to everyday life, their user bases grow increasingly diverse. From startups to global enterprises, organisations must navigate the challenges of designing for users with vastly different goals, skills, and expectations. Balancing these user needs with business objectives is a challenge that lies at the heart of modern product management.
Navigating the product maze: how stakeholder voices can illuminate the path
In product management, the journey from idea to execution often feels like navigating a maze. Challenges like shifting priorities, evolving user needs, and resource constraints add complexity to the process. Yet, there’s one guiding light that can help product teams stay on track: stakeholder input.
Thriving through chaos: strategic product management for products that last
The age of disruption has become the norm. Rapid technological advancements, evolving user demands, and economic unpredictability challenge even the most seasoned product teams.
For people in product, this raises a critical challenge: How do you keep products stable and resilient when the ground beneath you is always shifting?
ManyHands London - the product event you don’t want to miss
If you’re a product manager, UX/UI designer, researcher or engineer, you may sometimes get disconnected from the wider product world - you're focused on your projects and managing deadlines that, before you know it, months have passed, and you haven't been outside your usual bubble!
🔥 How to ensure everyone contributes to the overall product impact?
As your product team expands, it’s not just about adding more hands—it’s about ensuring everyone’s work creates meaningful impact and aligns with shared goals.
Too much product optimisation: recognising the hidden costs of over-optimising for efficiency
In SaaS, the pursuit of efficiency feels almost second nature. Streamlined workflows, optimised processes, and quick-to-market features are often heralded as signs of success. As we often say, simplification is essential for enhancing user experience. However, an overemphasis on efficiency can lead to oversimplification, sacrificing valuable features that address diverse user needs.
Combining psychology and user experience: how your decisions are shaped online
The decisions users make while navigating a website or app often appear to be spontaneous, but in reality, they’re influenced by a range of psychological factors. And these decisions can be explained by this: behavioural economics.
Personalisation: the secret to a great user experience and the gateway to loyalty
Have you ever noticed how some digital experiences just seem to get you, while others feel off?
More often than not, it’s personalisation that makes the difference. As more businesses recognise its power, personalisation is quickly becoming an essential tool for boosting user engagement and satisfaction.
Supercharge your design decisions with user experience analytics
Ever wonder why some digital experiences keep users coming back while others miss the mark? The secret often lies in understanding user behaviour. User experience analytics provide the behavioural insights needed to make informed design choices that elevate satisfaction and engagement.
From guesswork to insight: mixing up UX design research methods
Do you ever feel like your UX decisions are just educated guesses? You’re definitely not the only one.
Many teams struggle to balance numbers with real user insights. By incorporating qualitative research alongside quantitative data within your UX design research methods, you can turn guesswork into informed decisions.
How storytelling transforms the B2B customer journey in UX design
Storytelling has been a cornerstone of communication for millennia. It’s how we convey ideas, share experiences, and connect with others. In the world of user experience (UX) design, particularly for B2B customer journeys, storytelling takes on a strategic role. It helps clarify complex concepts, builds emotional connections, and makes every user interaction more meaningful.
Design with purpose: aligning product management and UX design with business goals
Aligning your design strategy with business goals is crucial for building products that work for both users and the business. But let’s be honest—teams can easily hit roadblocks if product management and UX designers aren’t in sync. When these teams don’t collaborate closely, you end up with missed opportunities, frustrated stakeholders, and a product that doesn’t deliver.
User experience accessibility: designing for everyone, not just some
Imagine trying to navigate a website using a screen reader, only to find that important buttons are missing labels, or that you can’t access key content. For many people with access needs, this is a daily struggle. But what if we could change that?
Meet Charlotte: The people behind the product
We are collaborating with a leading London university. This project has been fantastic, yielding pleasant surprises and valuable usability insights. I am excited to present these findings to the client soon!
Meet Jolien: The people behind the product
There’s many things! I love all the different people, clients and industries we work with and in. Additionally, I love the trust DPP has in me; giving me full autonomy and flexibility on how I do my job and when. 🙌🏻
UX engineer: The essential role no-one’s heard of
Does it sometimes feel like your engineers are talking a different language to your UX designers? That’s because, in many ways, they are.
Make Agile work for you – balancing methodology and momentum
Like most digital teams, we use some form of Agile on every project we’re involved in. We want to talk about our approach to Agile, namely how it isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to all your problems.
Consistent product design: there’s more than meets the eye
Nobody wants to waste their time on trying to understand a confusing product, and no UX designer wants to know that their blood, sweat and tears have gone into producing something that a user finds unintuitive.
The simple way to make your user research insights evergreen
The most rigorous research phase in the world will fail to have a meaningful impact if its findings are looked at once and never again.