Hike One

Ready for the next step in your career? Join our dynamic team as a Senior UX Designer and lead innovative projects that transform user experiences. Bring your creative vision to life and make a meaningful difference! Apply today! #digitaldesignagency #uxdesign #productdesign #productdiscovery  https://lnkd.in/ev7UggkX

We're very proud of our office in the Houthavens of Amsterdam! The 728 m² office is located on the 3rd floor at Koivistokade 70 and offers a fantastic view of the Houthavens. We love working here, meeting each other and receive our clients . Did you know that we also rent out workspaces in our office? Here’s what we offer: - On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, you can have a private office space of 36 m² and/or work at a flexible workstation in the shared office area. - An office space with plenty of natural light and a panoramic view of the Houthavens, featuring fully equipped workstations where you can plug in your laptop right away. - 4 meeting rooms (for 4-20 people) with screens and audio equipment, plus 4 phone booths. - Unlimited access to our facilities: a fully equipped kitchen with a stocked fridge, lunch area, a ping pong table, showers, a rooftop terrace, a relaxation corner, a nursing mothers room. - Friendly conversations with our Hike One colleagues at the kitchen bar. Interested? Feel free to reach out so we can discuss the possibilities and schedule a visit at Koivistokade 70 in Amsterdam! Contact Sigrid van Roosmalen, facilities lead at Hike One via 31 620912372 or [email protected].

Thank you for joining another Beyond Design session about customer journey management Sander Viegers Daan de Kleijn Micha Elenbaas Lotte L. Erika Bonifaz Sander van Mourik Highlights of this roundtable event: • How to keep the customer journey alive when product teams don't have the resources available to improve the journey? • What role can designers play in setting up the customer journey, and how can they create a framework in order to use the customer journey across teams? • How to formalise journey ownership in a product-centric environment. How to make people take responsibility? Get the full summary here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e97pHzA2

Last week David van Duinen and I had the pleasure of discussing continuous discovery with the people of Schiphol. Talking speedboats, containerships, and how to create alignment so all teams steer the same course. 🚤 ⛴️ ⚓️ The main discussion points: - Change your perspective from making your stakeholders see your point of view, to understanding theirs. Take it from there. - Anticipate the needs of stakeholders who may be focused on short-term goals during peak seasons by planning ahead. - When you can't directly link the business strategy to your product strategy, do some discovery yourself. Joel and his team are doing a great job at researching what the main themes can mean for the product and sharing that with their colleagues. Thanks Joel Laumans for inviting us, we're looking forward to the talk you'll give at Hike One 🙌

“We’ve evaluated our product, but we can’t get the budget to fix the large issues” You might face some obstacles while making your products accessible, such as:  🤷♀️ A lack of understanding, 🤩 No buy-in, or 🛠️ Inaccessible third-party tools But you’re not alone, and we’ve seen it before. Don't let them prevent you from getting ahead. Want to solve those issues? Read our last blog in the accessibility series: https://lnkd.in/eitC2DDt

Wondering which tools to use for your design system? We've tested many options and implementations, so let's explore what might suit your needs. Our best read blogpost deserved an update so our Design System experts Anouk Boetekees and Suzanne Wensveen got to work 💪 Know of more design system tools that are worth exploring? Let us know in the comments! https://lnkd.in/ePPsB37y #UXdesign #DesignSystems

3 things about product operations (discussed during our #beyondDesign Roundtable) ANWB, Schiphol, IKEA, Gynzy, and Yuki Visma joined our roundtable last week to discuss their setup for product operations and their challenges. These are the topics we discussed.  Thank you to Heleen van Nues, Joel Laumans, Jürgen Suls, Niels Schultz, and Peter Boersma for the discussion! 🤝 How to seek collaboration between various Ops specialties, preventing a product theatre 🎯 How to move from business to product goals and enforce local optimization 🏎️ How to align the way of working between product teams? Read all about it right here 👉 https://lnkd.in/enmRdXGv #productOperations #productTheatre #designOps #productDevelopment

Will you get a € 103.000 fine because of lacking accessibility? 🤑 You might, with the new European Accessibility Act coming up. However, you might wonder: • What other laws and guidelines are there? • What does that mean for my product? • How will this be implemented in The Netherlands? Accessibility is not just about legal compliance, but it is nice to know the basics. Read about it at https://lnkd.in/ezC9nY8j #Accessibility #EuropeanAccessiblityAct #DigitalProductDesign

“Every day we get an ever bigger option overload. If you are not supported in the decision-making process, you are still left with nothing.” A quote that pretty much captures the core of what was discussed during the roundtable discussion we organised. Thanks to Ainat Sagie-Cohen, Lena Overkamp, Ingrid Smit, Sander van Mourik, Sytse Goverts, Fenna van Kesteren, Felix Mauricio Fraile Schumacher, Niki Jongman, Caya Kempe for bringing this discussion to life! Topics we discussed: • How does Generation Alpha learn; how to keep children socially engaged? • What are motivational drivers for Gen Alpha; • The ethics of designing for kids. Interested in the summary? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/esZQy7yD #productDesign #GenAlpha #designforkids

Accessibility can be challenging 😬 And we get it; it can seem like an enormous undertaking, you might lack the knowledge in your organisation, and others might ask you for the ROI. But you can split it into smaller, specific steps: • Product review, • Staff training (for all product roles), • Fixing product issues, your design system, and third-party tools,  • Embedding it in your process and organisation. Dive deeper into each step with the full article: https://lnkd.in/exe4tz8f