Strong cross-functional partnerships make us more efficient and effective at our jobs while ensuring projects are completed successfully. But these relationships, especially those between design and product management, can sometimes be in conflict.

Thankfully, the same thing that helps bring these two teams together is also the same thing that helps build the best products for the company. This talk will focus on how to leverage user research to help make the right trade-offs when you feel pressure to launch quickly but also want to have confidence that you’re designing the right thing for your users.

Chris will draw from his experiences at Google, Uber Eats and now Sprig to show how research can bridge the gap between designers and product managers.