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Every 2022 newsletter you missed
Dear Reader,
It's been a busy year for us at the Fountain Institute. We launched 4 LIVE, cohort-based courses (including 40 new workshops), lead 9 free masterclasses, and hosted 12 meetups.
We launched our free Slack community (join here), taught 4,000+ designers, and crossed the 5,000 subscribers mark for this newsletter.
We've got lots more planned for 2023!
But first...a look back at the newsletters from 2022.
Here are all of the newsletters from 2022 sorted by topic:
Sustainability
UX Research
- What is atomic UX research?
- What is continuous UX research?
- The methods of continuous UX
- How to squeeze desk research into your day
- Why there's no time for research
- How to talk about users: archetypes vs. personas vs. case study
- Data walls: an essential research tool
- Your go-to interview method
- How Miro does UX research
- You are more than a problem solver
- This research report could have been shorter
Product Discovery
- Product discovery vs. delivery vs. design
- 3 truths of product discovery (and UX)
- 2 ways to design with confidence
- How to design in ambiguity
Experimentation
- Test assumptions, not ideas
- Data-informed vs. inspired vs. driven
- "Let me show you"
- Are your design ideas bad?
Metrics
Strategy
- How to design a UX strategy
- Is UX strategy still relevant?
- "Let's do all the UX stuff"
- The kernel of a good UX strategy
- A tale of UX heresy: business-centric vs. user-centric
- Collaborative UX strategies
- Aligning with a project vision statement
- How to design a strategy
Facilitation
- 5 key elements for building workshops
- The facilitator's mindset for co-creation
- Activity archetypes in workshops
- Workshopping to freelance success
- The power of workshop energizers
- Answering top questions about facilitation
- Co-creation is an approach, not a method
- 3 ways to better planning
- Visual thinking strategies
- 3 risks in design sprints
- Fostering collaboration in your team
Design Leadership
- How to be a design leader
- Initiating innovation projects
- Why introverts struggle with leadership
- Productizing: from designer to leader
- Getting comfortable saying, "I don't know yet"
- Building resilience in your design career
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Until next year!
Jeff Humble
Designer & Co-Founder
The Fountain Institute
The Fountain Institute
The Fountain Institute is an independent online school that teaches advanced UX & product skills.
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