“What UX designers offer that’s special is help building a vision for what the product can and should be. This is not a reductive ‘getting things done’ approach. It’s a generative ‘what does this have the potential to be’ kind of approach. A good UX designer should encourage the team to ask that question, facilitate a process that brings the whole team along in answering it, and then make those answers tangible, doable, and, yes, a little bit pretty.” – Leah Buley

Read Leah’s article “Burndowns and Flareups in Agile Design” here.

1. When we advocate for the user, we are simultaneously advocating for our team
2. Design thinkers look past a project to the next step in the strategy
3. Design and business leaders must take the time to understand each other