Strong.Design

Strong.Design

Impact

Impact

Impact

Design leadership means taking responsibility for more than just your own work and actions, it means designing with dozens of other people's hands and enabling them to do their best possible work. It means being a servant leader, but also an enabler of process, a mentor, and an SME with a passion for every aspect of the work.

Here's a small sample of the initiatives I've lead over the last few years.

Getting Agile in a Siloed Universe

Legacy process had forced our team into an embedded resource & creative services model. Moving to a collaboration-first agile framework that empowered self-forming teams with fluid SME participation required a refined processes, targeted education, and system retooling

Sketching an Idea

Capacity

Tripled

eNPS

+20%

Getting Agile in a Siloed Universe

Legacy process had forced our team into an embedded resource & creative services model. Moving to a collaboration-first agile framework that empowered self-forming teams with fluid SME participation required a refined processes, targeted education, and system retooling

Crafting a Message Testing Framework

Effective communication is a cornerstone of success in business-to-business (B2B) markets. Understanding and refining the way a message is conveyed is crucial for establishing strong business relationships and achieving market objectives.

Hands Making a Heart

Rethinking the UX Brief

The Insight360 Brief moves beyond traditional message-centric strategies from marketing and advertising, emphasizing behavior as the key currency of user experience. It harmonizes top-down business strategy with bottom-up design thinking, fostering improved alignment and enhanced research quality.

Creative Brief Sketch

2023 Projects

30+

Research Rate

90%

Rethinking the UX Brief

The Insight360 Brief moves beyond traditional message-centric strategies from marketing and advertising, emphasizing behavior as the key currency of user experience. It harmonizes top-down business strategy with bottom-up design thinking, fostering improved alignment and enhanced research quality.

Modernizing a UX Research Stack

For eight years we used one vendor for all of our user testing. When Dell started leaning on us to make larger business decisions about digital marketing we had to elevate our game. Here's how we chose and executed a modern UXR stack at the enterprise level.

Sketching an Idea

Modernizing a UX Research Stack

For eight years we used one vendor for all of our user testing. When Dell started leaning on us to make larger business decisions about digital marketing we had to elevate our game. Here's how we chose and executed a modern UXR stack at the enterprise level.

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Designed by Ian Armstrong with Goran Babarogic

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Designed by Ian Armstrong with Goran Babarogic