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Nicola Rushton

Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
Pivotal Labs
Country or state 
Australia
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Global
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Languages 
English
Volunteer:
Yes

Personal Details

Bio

Nicola is a product designer and design consultant who loves working with enterprises, startups and government. An alumni of Pivotal Labs, she’s passionate about Lean UX, dual-track agile, and the benefits of regular user research. She is also a vocal advocate for honest communication within teams and reflective practises and is a cofounder of the retro tool Postfacto.

She writes online about design and research on medium.com/@nicolarushton.

Current position (3)

Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)

Pivotal Labs

Design Speaker

Various

Consultant: Product Design & Research

Nicola Rushton Consulting

Degrees (1)
B. Creative Arts (Graphic Design)
University of Wollongong
2009 to 2011

Presentations

Presentations (1)
Better Listening at Work: For Managers, Leaders and Humans

Listening is a superpower.

The one thing most people say they wish their team was better at was communicating with each other. It's hard. Learning to listen, and using specific strategies and structures to allow people to communicate at their best, can take a team from storming to performing.

Past talks (2)
Designing Team Culture: How Good Retros Make Great Teams
Web Directions Summit 2017
Sydney
2017
How to get HONEST feedback from your users
Lean Startup Sydney
Sydney
2018
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Nicola Rushton Web Directions - Designing Team Culture: How good retros make great teams
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Stop doing user interviews. Start having conversations.

Books & Articles (7)

Stop doing user interviews. Start having conversations.
What I know after a decade in design
Nobody is going to steal your startup idea
How to run a worthwhile retrospective
Your life story: A Design Exercise
Make your resume as user-centred as you are
Don't skip the warm up questions!

Expertise (17)

Design
Leadership
Technology
Business
Design Lean Startup Lean UX Listening Team communication Retrospectives Agile Design design careers UX User Interviews speaking to customers User Research customer research
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