How to pick your battles as a designer
If you look at some of the top companies in the world — Apple, Airbnb, IBM, Netflix — what do they all have in common? They are prime examples of design-led companies. Being design-led means more than...
View ArticleHow product leaders adapt frameworks like the 5 Whys
As a product leader, you live in a space full of problems. Although it’s your job to fix them, you need to do more than address symptoms – you need to remediate the cause of issues. Many product...
View ArticleProfit center vs. cost center: How company structure affects engineering
Understanding the differences between profit and cost centers in engineering teams is essential for developers. The two have fundamentally different mentalities in the way they operate. As a result,...
View Article3 case studies of why speed isn’t always best for your product
In the realm of product development, you often hear people celebrate speed. Many PMs take pleasure in how fast they can build, iterate, and ship products. The iconic startup phrase “Move fast and...
View ArticleHow design specialties can work against your career
When generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney began gaining attention, many designers got nervous. Was AI going to take over our jobs? UI specialists, in particular, felt the pressure....
View ArticleWhy no one reads your product docs, and how to fix it
People don’t avoid reading your product documentation because they’re lazy. They avoid it because it wasn’t written for them. It was written to be written. In every product team, well-intentioned...
View ArticleWhat does a UX manager really do?
Today’s organizations are so structurally varied that it’s impossible to describe a “typical” organization. Especially as companies scale, their organizational charts shift to fit new needs. One UX...
View ArticleHow AI is changing customer acquisition
The rise of AI tools and solutions has been one of the most impactful changes to the way people build, scale, monetize, and grow products in years. There’s simply no area of product management that...
View ArticleHow picking up Canva can level up your PM work
I heard the song “Clocks” by Coldplay the other day and it transported me back to a video I made senior year of college for one of my clubs. I had reams of raw footage from our community service...
View ArticleHow AI prototyping tools are changing PM workflows
Back when I worked at Zalando, a European ecommerce retailer, I kicked off the building of a new content management system that would serve 30 million daily active users. This was meant to replace an...
View Article10 UX design challenges to level up your skillset
Challenging yourself is a great way to grow as a UX designer — whether it’s by designing something completely unexpected or testing a new research method. UX design challenges can help you build new...
View Article7 design feedback questions to retire — and what to ask instead
In the UI/UX design process, work doesn’t end after one iteration. Designers continuously improve product designs until they meet the best version through multiple feedback-driven cycles. Each design...
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