​🎯 For UX Designers | 🧠 Beginner-Intermediate | 🔁 Interactive session | 🕒 90 min | 👥 40 seats | 💵 $150 Standard / $100 Uxcel Pro

​Landing a B2B or enterprise role feels like a win, until you realise great design doesn’t automatically ship. Work gets lost in handoffs, watered down in reviews, or rebuilt by developers who never saw the full picture.

​In this workshop, you'll work through three real B2B scenarios that expose the most common ways design goes off the rails, from the last-minute demo surprise to the stakeholder who pushes back on everything.

​You'll learn concrete strategies to align your team early, go upstream from a bad request to the real need behind it, and communicate your decisions in ways that survive the meeting room. Each case builds directly on the last, so you leave with a connected playbook, not just a list of tips.

​Led by Maria Teresa Stella, Senior UX Designer with 8+ years of experience in B2B and enterprise UX. At Uxcel, she's the instructor behind the Mentorship Mastery course.

​You'll leave with a practical template you can put to work immediately, plus a clear, case-tested framework for getting your design through kickoff to final delivery, intact and as intended.

​🧠 What You'll Learn

• ​How to keep developers and PMs aligned throughout the process so your design ships the way you intended.

• ​How to recognise when a stakeholder request is hiding a different need, and how to surface the real problem.

• ​How to gather useful insights quickly when you have limited time or no formal research budget.

• ​How to handle pushback confidently using UX patterns, competitive benchmarks, and business goals.

• ​How to document and communicate design decisions in a way that holds up long after the meeting ends.

​🕘 Agenda

1. ​Welcome & Why This Matters: Quick introductions and workshop goals; why good design alone doesn't guarantee your work will ship; the most common ways design gets lost in B2B contexts.

2. ​(Case 1) The Demo Surprise: Why working in silos leads to last-minute shocks; how to bring developers and PMs on your side by involving them early; how to structure Figma files, internal wikis, and prototypes for a clean technical handoff.

3. ​(Case 2) The Stakeholder Pushing for the Wrong Solution: How to spot when a request is masking a different need; how to gather insights with limited time or no research budget; going upstream from the wrong solution to the real problem.

4. ​(Case 3) The Stakeholder Who Critiques Everything: How to prepare before, during, and after a presentation to reduce friction; how to present effectively to a non-design audience; how to respond to criticism using UX patterns, benchmarks, business goals, and tactical questions.

5. ​Key Takeaways & Live Q&A: Walk away with your practical template to use on the job; open Q&A where you can bring your own specific challenges to the table.

​⚙️ Format

​Interactive session.

​You'll participate in discussions and collaborative exercises. The instructor will guide the group through activities designed to apply the concepts in real scenarios.

​👤 Who Should Attend

​Experience level: Beginner to Intermediate

​This session is designed for junior and mid-level UX designers working in (or transitioning into) B2B or enterprise environments.

​🎓 Meet Your Instructor

​Maria Teresa Stella is a Senior UX Designer in the fintech sector with 8+ years of experience in B2B and enterprise UX. She holds a background in Psychology and a Master's in Human–Computer Interaction, bringing a deeply human perspective to the messy realities of designing in complex organisations.

​A mentor and conference speaker, Maria Teresa is a passionate advocate for helping junior and aspiring designers build confidence and clarity in their craft.

​At Uxcel, she's the instructor behind the Mentorship Mastery course, where she teaches designers how to accelerate their careers through effective mentorship and personal development practices.

​🛠️ Tools

• ​Zoom

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​📌 Notes

• ​Includes access to the full recording.

• ​Tickets are non-refundable once the session has started.

• ​Use Uxcel registered email address when purchasing Uxcel Pro tickets.

• ​Participants will receive a practical template after the session to use directly on the job.