How to gain confidence to present your design ideas
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Within the first five minutes, I could tell my colleague’s user research presentation would be ineffective.
It wasn’t because they hadn’t done good work. I’d seen them do a great job. However, they didn’t appear to be confident in making design recommendations.
I get it. It can be intimidating to stand in front of your boss (or your boss’s boss) and tell them they need to do something.
However, failing to do this results in ineffective presentations because you change the nature of your research.
Exploratory vs exploratory, or why the process is ineffective
First, let’s explain the two types of potential user research.
On the other hand, explanatory research explains the causes and consequences of a well-defined problem.
The mistake many unconfident designers make is that they present explanatory research like exploratory research. Why? Because it’s easier to avoid drawing…
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