UX Leadership Essentials

Course overview

Course Objective The UX Leadership Essentials course focuses on leadership tasks in the context of user experience and product development. It addresses role understanding, procedural models, and decision-making templates for managing interdisciplinary teams. The goal is to convey methods for prioritizing UX work, coordinating collaboration with product management, development, and research, as well as communicating usage quality to stakeholders. The course is embedded in the field of UX management and organizational development. Content Role and responsibility delineation of UX leadership, including the definition of guidelines for design, research, and content, as well as interfaces to product management, engineering, and quality assurance Governance and processes: Establishment of design guidelines, design system management, research repository usage, backlog maintenance for UX projects, and coordination formats such as design reviews Stakeholder management and communication: Structuring decision-making templates, formats for roadmap coordination, expectation management, and prioritization based on usage risks and business requirements Team leadership and work organization: Capacity planning, role mix, mentoring formats, definition of work agreements, handling of remote and hybrid collaboration Measuring user experience: Formulating UX criteria, selecting appropriate metrics (e.g., task success, SUS, NPS variants), building monitoring, and deriving actions Incorporating research and discovery: Planning continuous user research, hypothesis formation, experiment design, documentation, and transfer into product decisions Learning Objectives - Analyzing roles, responsibilities, and interfaces within a UX ecosystem - Creating governance artifacts such as design guidelines, working agreements, and review formats - Conducting prioritizations based on usage risks, effort estimates, and business requirements - Developing communication and stakeholder formats including decision-making templates and roadmap contributions - Implementing metrics to evaluate user experience and employing monitoring processes - Integrating continuous user research into discovery and delivery processes Career Perspectives The course content is applicable in professional fields such as UX Lead or Head of UX, focusing on team management and process design. Typical areas of activity include design or research leadership in product organizations, including governance, capacity planning, and quality control. The course addresses content for roles such as Product Design Manager or UX Program Manager, relating to stakeholder management, roadmap contributions, and measuring user experience. Summary The UX Leadership Essentials course addresses leadership tasks, process design, and measurement methods in the field of user experience. This training provides methods for role clarification, governance, stakeholder communication, and the integration of research. The content relates to fi…

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• 2026-08-02T22:00:00.000Z · 2027-01-20T23:00:00.000Z · Leipzig · Combined Learning
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