Ross Chapman

Advice

Execution is the Game

It’s impossible to have a good strategy poorly executed. That’s because execution actually is strategy.

My journey

My Experience as a Contractor

"What I needed was a situation where I could earn enough to cover the bills, create savings and all at a low effort whilst I put together the masterplan."

Notes

What excites me about No Code

The biggest agencies in the world are spending 16+ hours creating throwaway client presentations. What's the alternative?

My journey

Becoming an Entrepreneur

I shared previously my story of finding it hard to accept that I was a designer. Later, it was about being comfortable being called a facilitator. Now, it's about coming to terms with a new role.

My journey

Why I Quit

Two weeks ago, I called my employer to say that I was leaving. Here's why.

Work

Google Relay

Explore the future of sprints and accelerated collaboration.

Work

Hyper Island Design Principles Course

In the UX Upskill course, students learn how to develop many of the hard and soft skills they will need in the fast-paced world of service and product design.

Work

WWF My Footprint App

How might we make it a cultural norm to reduce your impact on nature?

Work

We Find Venues

What if you could make finding event space better?

Work

Wiggle Checkout

What if we could improve the conversion rate by addressing customer doubts?

Work

Land Rover Explore

What if we could support the launch of a new category of phone?

Advice Featured

How to prepare for a Remote Design Sprint

A remote design sprint is a method of solving a critical challenge, as a team, in a remote context. Whilst it compresses months of work into just a few days, the clear benefit is that it capitalises on technology from the start. This enables teams to solve more complex problems

Advice

Adding structure to meetings

Activity lacking direction and decision-making? You need a leader. A few years ago, I was a Senior User Experience Designer at an eCommerce business. As part of my job, I would often get called into meetings for a ‘user point of view,’ as that was my key responsibility within the

Interview

The Importance of UX Research and Design

Sharing here a conversation between myself and Misato Ehara for The UX Review, where we talk all things UX Research and Design. Listen to gain my perspective of the importance of user experience research (as a non-researcher!).

Advice

Building Culture in a Remote First Company

From Day 1, obodo has been a remote first business. Whilst we are registered in the UK, our core team have been distributed in Europe - and it's worked. For those that don't know, our model right now is built upon freelance designers in Europe and LATAM. I believe freelancers

My journey

Restarting the Engine

Last December, as we were heading into Christmas, we found that projects would end or pause, ready to restart in January. But when we came back in January, I realised that it actually takes a monumental effort to "restart the engine" and how you shouldn't wait for perfect projects before

My journey

The 3 Changes I've Made Moving into Management

Here's an excerpt from a podcast where I talked about moving into a management position at obodo. You can listen to the original episode here, or scroll down further for the formatted article. Enjoy! Becoming Managing Director recently, there's been a number of things that I've had to change about

My journey

My Journey in Product Design so far

Here are my product design career highlights (so far!) and some photos along the way.

Tools

Why I'm Using Contra for my Portfolio (and why you should too)

Great the portfolio of your dreams with Contra!

Advice

My 3 Stage Process for Hiring Great People

We're needing some more people at obodo to fulfil key roles as we scale with demand. I'm documenting what that process looks like, so I thought I'd share wider and see if it's valuable. Ultimately, I'll pick the best person for the job, but what criteria do I use and

Advice

7 Tips and Takeaways on Increasing Performance in your Remote Team

Over the past few weeks, many organisations have now found themselves operating virtually for the first time. Some are also discovering issues that were actually already present within their businesses. Misunderstandings arise related to workflows, roles and responsibilities. You can’t ‘shoulder-tap’ your colleague to find out and this can

Advice

The Sales and Marketing Tools and Techniques I Use Everyday

Sales and marketing is the lifeblood of any business. If no one knows about you and you're not making new business sales, you're finished. For anyone lucky to have retained clients - what happens when they leave? Again, you're toast unless you have a pipeline. So how can you establish

Advice

15 Ways to Love What You Do

The things I wish I knew 15 years ago! Well, to save any new entrant into the job market, or a wannabe UX designer needing to find some practical steps on how to engage with the community and expose their next opportunity, I’ve shared my 15 tips that I

My journey

Improving Design Sprints with Data

I've been contemplating the design process the rest of this morning. About four years ago, I read the Sprint book [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/0593076117/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1O7XPR864CVPY&dchild=1&keywords=design+sprint&qid=1635668381&qsid=260-4685729-7219719&sprefix=design+sprin%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-4&

News

Figuring out Hybrid Collaboration - The Next Phase of Work

What’s most important to you in this next phase of work as we start to figure out hybrid collaboration? With Butter, I ran a workshop to imagine a future of better collaboration. A few of my favourite bits: What have you changed your mind about in the last year