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Asking effective questions is crucial across departments, with challenges like minimizing bias and understanding user language. Overcoming these leads to accurate insights, better product design, efficiency, higher user satisfaction, and competitive advantage.

The ChatGPT plugin for FigJam streamlines creating "How might we" questions from team insights, boosting problem-solving and innovation in one interface.

Improved team check-ins and retrospectives by addressing communication barriers, encouraging participation, and fostering transparency, leading to growth and better collaboration.

A group of UX designers formed a successful community during Covid-19, showing how working together helps overcome challenges.

ChatGPT, an advanced AI chatbot since November 2022, boosts work efficiency and decision-making but should be used with caution as it's not error-free.

Solving tasks often leads to biased opinions from personal views, complicating collaboration. Recognizing diverse ways of knowing can help us understand each other and work together more effectively.

Without research, we can't make informed decisions or prioritize tasks effectively, leading to wasted effort on less impactful features. Research helps us focus on what works, aiding the team in making smarter choices and understanding the full user experience.

Introducing or advancing UX in a company is challenging due to various key factors. These include whether you're the first UX Designer, the size of the company, and the team and management's understanding and attitude towards UX. UX maturity models can help assess your company's current state in this domain.

Meetings often end with no results, leading to more meetings. They're usually poorly organized, giving them a bad reputation. Thankfully, new tools can help fix this.

Design is often undervalued, mistaken as mere beautification or trend-chasing. Many designers merely tweak existing designs due to directives, lack of knowledge, or time constraints. This leads to flashy UIs that don't address real issues or add value. However, change is on the horizon.

Implementing a Design System poses challenges, yet choosing between a centralized, decentralized, or hybrid system can impact delivery speed and scalability.

With cross-browser support for CSS aspect-ratio now widespread, it's an opportune time to leverage this for your website or product. The goal is to streamline your workflow in producing visuals by reducing the number of assets needed. Why not adopt a size that's easily reusable, whether for your website or social media channels?

We tend to be busy all the time. But it is crucial to check in on your tools and workflows. This can help your team achieve better product outcomes. Because the status quo is directly related to the user experience it currently delivers.

As users might not use your product as expected, it's crucial to reduce its complexity. This simplification could, however, complicate your code to ensure a great user experience - Complexity shifts.