Building a Lean Research Culture
Every year research teams are having to continue their focus on staying agile while remaining sustainable. This is something UX leaders need to constantly be working toward, fine tuning and leading the charge on. Luckily, if you’ve ever worked on Ryan Leffel’s team, you know this is true and have seen it in action.
Join Ryan Leffel (Head of Design, Ex-Priceline, Pearson, Yahoo! and R/GA) and Colleen Gao (Head of Askable - UK) for a candid conversation about what it means exactly to have a healthy, lean culture and how UX leaders can evaluate how well their team’s culture and processes stack up.
We’ll cover:
How to keep research lean, fast, and fully integrated into product/design without dragging the process down.
Building internal support for lean research, especially when curiosity isn’t baked into the company culture.
Building a culture where lean research is respected, repeatable, and actually scalable across teams.
This session will educate and reinforce your knowledge on the strategy and tactics to become a leader of lean, agile and sustainable UX teams.
📅 Wednesday, January 21st
🕧12pm CST/6pm GMT
📍 Zoom
Meet your speakers
Ryan Leffel — After earning his Master’s degree in Interactive Design from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Ryan took on lead user experience roles at companies including R/GA, Yahoo!, Corra, Pearson and Priceline.
Throughout his career, Ryan has built high-performing teams, scaled design systems, and turned user-centric thinking into serious business outcomes. From digital transformation to bold innovation bets, Ryan helps brands grow by making products people love to use.
Colleen Gao — Colleen hates talking about herself in third person and professional bios but wrote one for the cause. She loves helping amazing teams accelerate product improvement around the world. So much so that she moved all the way from Australia to spread the Askable love to the UK and EU. After trading beaches and chicken salt (IYKYK) for rain and roast dinners, Colleen along with her incredible team have helped clients such as Monzo, Just Eat Takeaway, British Airways and many more get insights and build better products.
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