Most products fail because they ignore the messy reality of how people actually use them. I help you create products that work by understanding the overall system, designing for  behaviour, emotions and people’s real context. 

Most importantly, I think about risk - always.

I’ll help you see what can go wrong to users and the business, so we can mitigate it and make informed trade-offs (rather than nasty surprises)

Here’s how I help you:

🤝 If you're a potential client:
→ UX Audits: analysing your product and identifying opportunities
→ Fractional design and research support that drives business, and user impact
→ Clarity on strategic direction and vision 


📕 If you're here for my content, I write about: 
→ How to consider the *overall* experience
→ Connecting design impact <> business impact
→ Identifying different types of risk (and mitigate it)
→ Designing for how people *actually* use things by considering context, behaviour and emotions 
→ Tips to help along your design processes

I'd love to hear about how I can help you. Drop me a message on LinkedIn, or send an email to: hello@ampersandco.studio

And if you don't have a project, I'm always down for a coffee chat!

Emily Anderson

Issue #1 of Beyond the Happy Path newsletter is live!

This one is all about Churn. It’s not the sexiest thing, I know

It's easy to assume that when people stop using our products and services it's because they *wanted* to. We focus on reasons like: they didn’t see value or it’s too expensive

But that’s not always true.

Sometimes people leave because they had no choice. They leave because they *have* to:

Maybe their ability changed and they can't use it anymore. Maybe they're struggling financially and can't afford it right now. Or maybe someone passed away.

In this issue I dive into:

➡️ Why we need to think about churn in terms of “wanted to” vs “had to” reasons (i.e voluntary, involuntary, and situational churn)

➡️ Real examples that can help to reduce churn

➡️ Ideas for how you can start considering it in your process

Incase you missed it, you can read the post in the link below (and subscribe for future issues too  👀)

https://lnkd.in/ef9CMEAE
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It's very early days of the newsletter and I'm not going to pretend to have it all figured out. So if you've got any feedback of what you want to see more / less of, I'd love it here it!

Designer | Reducing risks to users and businesses | Founder, Ampersand | Speaker

🎙️ Podcast Host @ Beyond UX Design // 💡 Engaging Industry Insights // 🥸 Joke Maker // 🧔 Dad

👋 My name is Jeremy and here are some things I want you to know about me:

💪 I'm passionate about the product.
✏️ I'm dedicated to design.
🤝 I'm crazy about collaboration.
🍬 I'm sweet on soft skills.
🔮 I'm entranced by the end users.
🏁 I rally around research.

But most importantly, I believe you can't build great software without great relationships.

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