The Best of Journal
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Journal on Google
A closer look at Google Calendar’s new design
Google Calendar’s redesign launched last week 🎉 and it’s bursting with juicy UX decisions.
Journal on Jeff Bezos
What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
A new mentor of mine suggested I read Jeff Bezos’ Letter to Shareholders to refine my thoughts around building a career and a business.
Journal on Product Design
Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It)
In 2003, a marketing consultant named Fred Reichheld lit the business world on fire with the Harvard Business Review article The One Number…
Journal on Product Strategy
How To Design a Bulletproof Product Strategy
Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic.
«Great product companies have four things in common: a clear product vision; a product strategy; a set of priorities; and a way to measure outcomes.»
Journal on Saas
Why Trello Failed to Build a $1 Billion+ Business
In 2011, Joel Spolsky launched his company Fog Creek’s new product at TechCrunch Disrupt called Trello. It looked a lot like a whiteboard…
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The Silent Rise of the Female Driven Economy
Despite most product development and design being focused on men as the default, women control most consumer purchasing decisions and they are quietly rising up to disrupt the economy. Entrepreneur Danielle Kayembe paints a persuasive and compelling picture of a future when women are at the center of innovation across the board. getAbstract recommends this eye-opening read to companies that don’t want to lose out when “women in business” ascend and women’s economic power begins to dominate.
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