A design team presents their vision for a new product, and their executive team has some fundamental questions about how the product strategy will drive business outcomes.
What should the strategy designer do to address these concerns?
A health and wellness company wants to create a 10-year vision for its business. Which
external context for innovation is the least risky trend to influence the company's strategy?
Cloud Kicks wants to improve its business model to be closer to its customers and provide quantifiable improvements to business efficiency.
Which framework should be used to drive the success of the new business model?
Cloud Kicks (CK) designs innovative footwear for site athletes. Manufacturing the footwear
is possible but expensive.
What should CK focus testing efforts on to determine whether to produce at scale?
Cloud Kicks would like to use a business model canvas to evaluate the desirability, viability, and feasibility of a new service and identify a business model that will justify pursuing the idea.
Which part of the business model canvas represents desirability?
Cloud Kicks (CK) works with various technology platforms built up over decades of acquisitions. Each platform has a different level of design maturity, which creates a very inconsistent user experience. To prioritize what to address first, CK needs to assess the business impact.
Which method is typically used to Quantify design debt?
Cloud Kicks has released a wearable device for athletes but struggles to find product market fit. The design team begins an initiative to better understand user needs and improve the device.
What should the strategy designer do to engage with internal stakeholders invested in the project?
A strategy designer is teaching a marketing team how to use the How Might We format for challenge framing.
What is the reason the statement should sav "How might we" instead of "How will we"?
A project team at Cloud Kicks is under pressure to solve customer supply chain issues across multiple locations. The strategy designer proposes they do some analogous research.
What should the team look to study?
An online retailer developing a new sales strategy that releases a new, limited time
promotion every 10 minutes to keep shoppers engaged.
The retailer's strategy designer has concerns that the promotion falls into an ethical risk zone around
addiction.
Which strategy should be used to bring potential issues to light?
Cloud Kicks’ stakeholders da strategy designer to help with their business goal of reducing support costs. After a series of interviews, the designer recommends self-service in Experience Cloud as a way to address the goal.
Which capability should drive self-service in Experience Cloud?
A strategy designer is leading a project to reimagine in-app communication form. The CIO is a
key decision maker but appears to be neutral-and even, at times, a detractor to the project.
What should the designer do to gain their alignment?
Cloud Kicks (CK) has developed a successful commerce solution for its customers in the
health space o creation of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based recommendation engine. There are
privacy concerns.
What should a strategy designer suggest that would provide a focus on AI concerns?
Cloud Kicks (CK) understands that all members of its cross-functional remote team can contribute to the design of a product through collaborative activities.
Which tools should CK use while conducting the next synchronous journey mapping session?
Cloud Kicks asks to see a roadmap denoting how the design team will turn their product vision into reality.
What should the team do when developing their roadmap?
A strategy designer at Cloud Kicks conducted a series of interviews with business stakeholders and customers to gain insights into existing customer support operations and wrote the design challenge statement.
Which option reflects the format of the design challenge statement"?
The design team is working on a high-fidelity prototype to create a more enjoyable user experience. The development team is busy and focused on the build, so the design team wants to engage them efficiently.
What is a key reason why they would engage the developer team?
Cloud Kicks is launching a new online store and wants to ensure the team follows an ethical decision-making process and that the delivered
product does not accrue ethical debt.
Which methodology should be suggested?
A strategy designer is facilitating a critique on a concept for their company’s new loyalty program, and they're getting a lot of subjective feedback
representing personal opinions.
What is the most common reason for this, assuming good intent from all participants?
A strategy designer leads a new UX project and needs to align with stakeholders who have
varying degrees of interest and influences the project. The designer wants to understand each
stakeholder's potential negative and positive impacts on the project.
Which tactic should be used?
At a project kickoff, the strategy designer wants to get ideas from all stakeholders to use as hypotheses. The designer runs a sketching activity with the multi-disciplinary group, asking everyone to sketch. They give everyone fat markers and sticky notes, and set a timer for 5 minutes of sketching.
What is the reason why marker choice is important?
A strategy designer proposes a multi-step strategy to reach the ultimate goal of making Cloud Kicks a net-zero company. The first step includes analyzing emissions and integrating data-driven insights into operational planning to reduce the carbon footprint of logistics. Each subsequent step builds on prior work and increases measurable progress until the goal is reached.
Which tool should the designer use to connect short-term efforts with long-term impact goals?
Cloud Kicks has uncovered a trend in parents and children wearing similar, coordinated
fashion. A strategy designer is scoping a project to explore the potential of this opportunity. When
should families be invited to co-create with designers?
A strategy designer is working on a project with budget constraints. Many of the variables
and decisions are unclear in the early stages of design What should be their approach in terms of
bringing skills and talent?
When a strategy designer creates an empathy map based on research insights, their deep
understanding of the customer drives which outcome?
Cloud Kicks’ product team is working with the sales team to identify a new feature to add to their next product release. A developer on the team believes it may be on an upcoming Salesforce Release.
Which resource should be used to verify this?
A cross-disciplinary team at Cloud Kicks has to synthesize top customer quotes and insights
from research and turn them into design opportunities.
Which question should the team use to prioritize insights?
project team at Cloud Kicks framed this design challenge: "How might we help our customers amidst supply chain interruptions?
What information is missing that belongs in all well-written challenge statements?
Cloud Kicks (CX) has spent several months working to align the entire company around a
vision based on inclusivity in the digital age. Because this project will span several years, the design
team is concerned the vision will eventually be lost.
What should CK do to maintain the vision and create transformative change?
The design team at Cloud Kicks is in the early stages of exploring an idea for a wearable
device to track customers activity during workouts.
They employ footwear designers and manufacturing experts, but they lack an engineer experienced
in consumer hardware,
What should the strategy designer do to determine whether or not to pursue this product idea?
Cloud Kicks is making sustainability a new core value.
Which methodology should a strategy designer use to help stakeholders understand the impact of that decision on current products and services?
A strategy designer at Cloud Kicks discovered a complex UX problem with its online shopping platform and now needs to effectively describe the problem in the customer context. This description should speak to the urgency of the problem, be a call-to-action for others to be involved, and inspire
hope for change.
Which type of statement should the designer make?
Cloud Kicks' strategy designer needs to communicate a new product vision but is only able to
access key stakeholders virtually Which technique should the designer use to ensure the audience
remains engaged?
Cloud Kicks' (CK) stakeholders have some concerns about a newly created CX vision because
they struggle with imagining how it will impact CK's current product.
What should a strategy designer do to alleviate the stakeholders' concerns?
The design team at Cloud Kicks used qualitative research to uncover an opportunity to create a new line of sustainable footwear.
What should the strategy designer do to build a shared understanding and agreement among business leaders to move forward with this new initiative7
A strategy designer is working on a future digital commerce vision for Cloud Kicks.
What should the designer focus on when engaging technical stakeholders7
A cross disciplinary team is starting a new design initiative for Cloud Kicks, and the strategy
designer is loading the effort.
What is one way to increase the team's psychological safety to encourage productive collaboration?
A strategy designer and a UX team have recently workshopped and developed a plan around the team's purpose and how they will align with the rest of the organization's goals and objectives.
Which alignment and accountability document should be used after this workshop to bring the plan to reality?
A strategy designer is pitching a vision presentation to their customer's lead to get final approval for a new project. The lead is not comfortable or familiar with design thinking and has been distrustful of the process so far. Investing in this new initiative will put their reputation on the line.
Which strategy should the designer employ to communicate the vision?
Cloud Kicks wants to improve its digital commerce experience because it is losing prominence in
the market. What should a strategy designer rely on to get stakeholder buy-in for a redesign?
Cloud Kicks' existing customers are loyal, but the company believes its total addressable market is larger.
What should their strategy designer explore to increase market share?
A strategy designer at Cloud Kicks is working on a strategic vision for a new movement tracking app that integrates with their footwear.
Which approach should validate the market for this concept?
Cloud Kicks has expanded its business recently by offering customizable footwear and the ability to price bv customer. Along with Sales Cloud, they are looking into additional product options that would help sales reps configure their orders easily.
Which Salesforce product should be considered for this business need?
A strategy designer at Cloud Kicks leads a development team whose stakeholders are
notorious for misunderstanding and undervaluing research-driven UX design.
Which approach should the designer propose to increase the desire for research-driven decisions?
Cloud Kicks wants to launch a campaign that rewards customer behavior by giving away
free merchandise, which key business criteria should be ensured?