Yakari Van Dessel
My skills bring a methodological approach throughout the product design process. I work with stakeholders to discover the real problem and help bring the end user closer to the business by conducting thorough design research. Ultimately, I help the team deliver solutions that are user-centric, technically feasible and meet the needs of the organisation.


Latest blog posts
One Way of Explaining the Value of Good UX To Stakeholders
In some situations, you have to sell the need for good UX before you can get buy-in from stakeholders. That’s why it’s important that you can be persuasive in a way that stakeholders really understand. Here’s how I did this a few weeks ago. The new guy For the past few …
The Lean UX Canvas To Mature Agile And Lean UX In Our Company
My personal experience of using the Lean UX Canvas for the first time in a new SAFe based Agile environment with a cross-functional team and a complex product. The Lean UX Canvas was a great answer to align a cross-functional team for a complex product. The canvas allowed us to have …
Personas: Why They Do Work
I wrote this blog post for Pàu, therefore it was first published on the Pàu Stories. A few weeks ago I read a tweet from a UX influencer questioning personas. I was stunned by how many other UX professionals also disagree with the effectiveness of personas. However, if you create personas …