Why I Became a FACILITATOR (and moved away from only doing UX Design)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Over the past few years, I've become more of a Facilitator than a UX designer. This transition happened because of how frustrated I'd get during the entire UX process. Misalignment, miscommunication, the lack of participation during the UX strategy process and the overall 'collaboration issue', accentuated by unproductive meetings, were wearing me down.
Then we started facilitating workshops during our UX / product design process and it completely changed the way we do projects at AJ&Smart. So much so, that all we do now is design and facilitate workshops for companies to help them solve problems, make decisions and develop products.
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Why I Became a FACILITATOR (and moved away from only doing UX Design)
• Why I Became a FACILIT...
🤔 Do you think facilitation is a valuable skill UX designers should learn? Please share your opinion in the comments.
✅And if you want to learn the full story of my journey from UX designer to facilitator, I tell it in detail in this 1-hour free training. You'll also learn a lot about facilitation and workshopping 👉 go.ajsmart.com/start
I think facilitation (or guiding people through a rocky journey) is a core skill that should be taught in every school.
I LOVE the new direction and am so grateful for your generosity sharing amazing resources, stories and wisdom.
Good for you man. Keep enjoying the journey!
Thanks for the follow up to the whole changing process. It's quite funny, as I just picked up the workshopper playbook, again. After I've bought the first physical copy back then (was it 2019 or 2020?) - I never finished it. But today was the day and I'm amazed again.
(Just a few of the links in the initial release won't work anymore).
Keep it up!
appreciate the honesty
You’re channel do what you want! Still love all your content.
Capable facilitators are also essential. *thumbs up* indeed
Oh Jonathan I feel you. Same trajectory here.
Thanks for making this video, I really wanted to know the answer.
Thanks you Divyansh!
I see.. no wonder I found that most content focus more on facilitation. I really love the way you guys present your content on TH-cam that I wish it's more on UX stuff, but I still watch every video because it's a useful knowledge that I can try to apply in my working process.
Anyway good for you! Yeah that UX frustration totally relatable! But I'm not keen on facilitating 🥴 but I agree it's an important skill for UX designer in order to convince stakeholders how important UX process is instead of following "Just do this thing!"
As a #WorkshopperMaster 😎🤓I still enjoy watching your videos! Whenever you talk about your frustration and your story as a UX designer, I see myself there.
Thank you Jarek! That's great to hear!! Glad you still enjoy the videos even after many many hours of seeing Jonathan's face in the program! Cheers
Great❤❤
Thank you!
Hi, I was inspired by your videos as I also believe that doing Design thinking workshops to verify ideas or collect user problems is a very efficient and quick method to start any project properly, I have done this already few times with my clients but the main problem that I have is that we are still struggling to convince our clients to do these workshops, or to let the decision makers attend at least the LDJ workshops
can you tell me what's your approach to selling these workshops to your clients, please?
I’m currently at the ‘7 years of Product design’ and it’s exhausting. I used to enjoy my work and never felt it was work. But it has started feeling like one. However I enjoy working on freelance projects but depressed working on my job. I’m not sure how to go forward.
I know the exact feeling. I couldn't keep doing the execution work, was wearing me down
I’m 3 years in and already sick of the execution. Freaking love research and ideation but after that I just feel like a pixel monkey lol
Can I ask what (if anything) changed that made work not enjoyable for you?
One question!
I am beginner in this field, and I'm learning about UX/UI Design, so should I start learning about Facilitation right now along with UX/UI? OR should I learn UX/UI first, get a job and than start facilitation?
That's a great question. If you haven't watched our video about getting started in UX design ( th-cam.com/video/t0aCoqXKFOU/w-d-xo.html ) we strongly recommend you to do it. If you follow the steps then you'll probably be able to find out if UX design is the right thing for you. Then you can master the theory and the tools. And then you could add facilitation to your UX toolkit. But if you're interested in learn the basics of facilitation from the beginning to be able to stand out from other beginner UX designers, then you can easily do it. We have a ton of free information about it on this channel. Hope this was helpful. Have a great day!
@@AJSmart yes I saw that video, and I'm currently learning about UX Design, and your channel has lots of free content on facilitation, so I can definitely start with it alongside learning UX.
THANK YOU Jonathan & Team!
Hey there! I'm actually doing the inverse trip... I'm actually a pretty good creative and learning process facilitator craving to work with design teams. What would be the tool (if there's any) that aloud me to seat in the same table to and just be as useful as I know I can be???
nice
I'm curious to know how does one become a facilitator??
Hey Sara! Great question... many start by reading facilitation guides and books and trying to implement the learnings into their jobs by facilitating meetings and workshops. Taking a formal facilitation course or joining a community (like www.facilitatorclub.com/) is also great for learning 😍
Hey…not everyone gets it..
Are you an ENTP?
This kinda seems like a made up role that someone with a fancy MBA degree from a prestige school would have because their dad has lots of connections.
haha! Who wouldn't love to have a rich dad with lots of connections!! But in all seriousness we coach a community with over 550 members whose jobs are to facilitate problem-solving sessions for companies. Some of them call themselves "agile coaches", "scrum masters", "design thinking coaches" or "design sprint facilitators". We also have another community with over 6000 members who learned how to facilitate Design Sprints, which is one type of workshop for validating products. And for a lot of the members that's the only service they offer. And you don't actually need a fancy MBA degree to become a facilitator, just look at Jonathan 😉. Cheers
AJ& Smart Johnatan and all the guys that kindly and with all the possible patience, answered my questions and doubts, really the sparkle of the "Why not", in the correct moment of my life. Now my next goal, would be participate in the great Masterclass they run!
I def have neither a wealthy dad, or an MBA anywhere in my family or extended family so prob don't need those things. Sounds nice tho!
Facilitation mastery is earned. I have a four STEM degree from what is called a public ivy . I worked in the trenches at Fortune 50 company with no MBA and became recognized for my facilitation skills - I've been recruited twice to change roles for this same fortune 50.
After finally being recognized - I got my self inspired learning validated by becoming a Scrum Master and Product Owner, spending time at the Stanford d. school, and teaching a thousand people our corporate take on Eric Ries 's Lean Startup.
Its because I took a journey and put the work in.
@@jonathancourtney1175 I may have been a bit harsh, I am sure companies with money to spend would use these workshops and get some value out of them. I just think these jobs where you aren't the one "executing" things are kind of BS. Ideas or strategies aren't things that can be sold without someone executing on them. It seems to me this a move more to orient yourselves as managerial consultants just for the "tech space". That's where the comment about the fancy MBA came from.