Nicole Gallardo

3X founder & chief design officer @FoundersWhoUX ⬥ 18+ yrs designing products, growing companies, & building teams

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

Founders can adopt a UX mindset early on to help their startups succeed in the long run.

The 3 key parts to achieving this:

1. have an open mind
2. listen to and test with REAL users
3. explore all possible solutions

What does having a UX mindset mean to you?

[Alicia Quan @alicia2joy]

Early-Stage Customer Acquisition & Activation Through UX by @nic_gallardo

https://t.co/GHoahplXTY

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@aaliamauro 💯💯

🌟 My company, @FoundersWhoUX teaches early-stage tech founders how to minimize risk with human-centered design.
🌟 I started because while good UX/UI is critical for long-term product success, it's not accessible at an early stage, especially to women & people of color.

[Alicia Quan @alicia2joy]

How UX methods help founding teams hit key milestones (by @nic_gallardo )

"I summarize the major stages of an EdTech startup and illustrate how UX and design are used to help founding teams hit typical milestones within each phase."

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

🍏I'm teaching a class! Founders, future founders, and startup designers—join me for a live and virtual course filled with practical frameworks, concepts, and processes that can be immediately applied to your early-stage startup.

Reserve your seat today: https://t.co/yWhLUromx0

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

Sometimes a seemingly simple "why?" will stick with me for days. I love when people question the status quo.

[Keyana Sapp @keyanasapp]

Strange that society says it's super risky for an 18-year-old to start a biz, but totally not risky to go 250k into debt for a social studies degree 🤔

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

To be successful as a founder, we must commit to being lifelong learners AND educators.

What are you learning and teaching?

I'll start.

I'm teaching founders how to validate their product with no code @FoundersWhoUX

I'm learning how to build community with @UX_EdTech

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

🍎 To my Edtech founders & UX designers:

In order to truly innovate for our learning communities, we must look beyond our direct competitors and our own experiences in the classroom.

We must constantly ask ourselves, “What lives beyond the bubble of academia?”

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

In 2008, I founded my first startup. And it failed–epically.

That first failure offered me a new perspective on how to approach problem-solving, design thinking, and UX for my next two successful companies.

Read the story + golden insights here ⮕ https://t.co/mF2ZVXnwMv

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@sri_varre ❤️ Pay it forward. Loving this.

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@SBenhoff Oregon Trail

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@Ryukware_ @SBenhoff Whoa....this one brought me back. I used to cheat and put the orange gun right up to the TV 😂

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@heruhermawan @loves_pixels 👏 Failure is where life's biggest lessons are learned.

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@zachrhill Agree 100%. It's SOOO important.

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@zachrhill Couldn't agree more. I always tell new designers that they will spend more energy on managing relationships, cutting through red tape, and selling their designs than actually designing.

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

Entrepreneurship and UX design have always overlapped because they are both centered around problem-solving. It's recognizing where skills can be shared and how they play together that is the trick.

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@daniandor @theajitnayak Well, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to do this and bring awareness to the importance of UX for startups, especially at an early stage. Thanks @daniandor

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

An insightful 2023 report about the role of UX in startups by @daniandor

https://t.co/kY4xEnn9Fm

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

⭐ I’m a lead advisor for @UX_EdTech and we are accepting new members to our free Slack community focused on designing better ways to support learning.

If you’re a founder looking to develop a UX mindset in the education industry, DM me for an application!

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

When it comes to innovation, nothing is needed–until it is.

There's nothing more powerful than a resilient founder who has a UX mentality and a game-changing business idea.

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@loves_pixels Exactly!

[Nicole Gallardo @nic_gallardo]

@jessdat0 More of this needs to happen! Thanks for sharing, Jess.

This @McKinsey chart in particular has always stuck in my mind. Soooo much white space...

You may have already read the report, but sharing just in case you haven't: https://t.co/e1No9gGZ43