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Growth.Design
How Linkedin Increased Notification Opt-in Rates by 500%Growth.Design
May 25th · This story shows the problem with most retention notifications and how Linkedin reframed their prompts to reengage 5x more users.
Shared by 82, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Oliver Raduner
growth hacking
product design
linkedin
raw.studio
Spotify’s Embodiment Of Emotional Designraw.studio
9 min read · May 25th · On average, each smartphone user has 80+ apps on their phone, but only really launch around 9 apps per day. Curiously, I checked my own phone - which somehow holds 148 apps, with only 10 being used…
Reader View · Shared by 87, including Michelle Boisson
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product design
ux
GrowthHackers
Your growth strategy should align with your company's strategyGrowthHackers
5 min read · May 20th · In the same way that there's no single industry in which growth couldn't be applied, there's also no single timing or strategy of a company…
Reader View · Shared by 179, including Víctor González Pacheco
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aakashg.com
From 0 to $70B ARR: The AWS Profileaakashg.com
~17 min read · May 8th · Learn the product decisions that have propelled AWS to over $70B in ARR. A deep dive from a PM point of view.
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saas
growth hacking
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iamli.am
A New Future for the Interfaceiamli.am
20+ min read · Apr 27th · Exploring the role of design without “users.”
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tomcritchlow.com
Reflecting on things I failed to get done at Googletomcritchlow.com
9 min read · May 12th · A meditation on corporate frustration & autonomy
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ellenchisa.substack.com
Translating Design Goals to Business Needsellenchisa.substack.com
6 min read · May 16th · part II of Finance for Designers
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sparkbox.com
Version Management for Design Systemssparkbox.com
7 min read · May 16th · Automating your design system versioning through version numbers, changelogs, and package publication allows your team to focus on building and maintaining great software.
Reader View · Shared by 104, including Mohamed Azazy
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UX Collective
10 cognitive biases that shape our worldUX Collective
~13 min read · Apr 27th · It was the “Aha” moment. You know, that feeling when you really understand something or get an idea of how to solve a problem? Have you…
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 409, including CSS Weekly, Jansnet, Johannes Dornisch
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GrowthHackers
Your growth strategy should align with your company's strategyGrowthHackers
5 min read · May 20th · In the same way that there's no single industry in which growth couldn't be applied, there's also no single timing or strategy of a company…
Reader View · Shared by 179, including Víctor González Pacheco
startups
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jlzych.com
Good North Star, Bad North Star by Jeff Zychjlzych.com
4 min read · Apr 25th
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North Stars should be a cross-functional effort, like any product work. Expecting the designer to “come up with the vision” without input from engineering, PM, and other stakeholders is doomed to fail.
tedgoas.com
A Product Design Process for the Real Worldtedgoas.com
7 min read · May 12th · May 8, 2022At the start of 2021, Dialpad’s core product was a business phone platform. We supported several use cases, but making and receiving phone calls over the internet was our bread and butter.…
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The goal of this phase is to help identify a problem statement, frame the problem, and gather enough evidence so we can confidently move forward into the ideation phase.
youtube.com
Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Petersonyoutube.com
Apr 21st · Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson: https://youtu.be/IC-B0QaoQ80#b2b #business #creator #cre...
Shared by 151, including Jonathan Kogan
venture capital
saas
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iamli.am
A New Future for the Interfaceiamli.am
20+ min read · Apr 27th · Exploring the role of design without “users.”
Reader View · Shared by 115
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aakashg.com
From 0 to $70B ARR: The AWS Profileaakashg.com
~17 min read · May 8th · Learn the product decisions that have propelled AWS to over $70B in ARR. A deep dive from a PM point of view.
Reader View · Shared by 109
saas
growth hacking
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sparkbox.com
Version Management for Design Systemssparkbox.com
7 min read · May 16th · Automating your design system versioning through version numbers, changelogs, and package publication allows your team to focus on building and maintaining great software.
Reader View · Shared by 104, including Mohamed Azazy
product design
visual design
design
zerodha.tech
User disengagementzerodha.tech
9 min read · May 6th · User disengagement is the product and business development philosophy we follow at Zerodha, the anti-thesis of user "engagement".
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If one sets out writing software or starting a business with the explicit goal of chasing arbitrary numeric goals (becoming a “unicorn”, chasing indefinite revenue growth, user numbers …) far beyond the realms of sustainability, there is a high likelihood of the resulting products naturally optimising for those goals, creating monstrosities of user-hostile dark patterns.
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Dark Pattern: How Youtube Makes Sure You Don’t Always “Skip Ad”Prototypr 👁️✨
6 min read · May 6th · Dark pattern so dark you don’t even see it
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 92, including Matt Navarra
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Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Designmedium.com
7 min read · From 2015 · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants…
Reader View · Shared by 964, including Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Oliver Pitsch, ThomNagy, Klaus Eck, Martin Recke, designshard, Moritz Meenen, Dominik Grolimund, Herbert Bay, Chris Messina, Greg Meyer, Christoph Magnussen, Lailo, Thomas Power, Casey Smith, Scott Williams, Marc Steffen, Tris Hussey
ux
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HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable ProductHackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
10 min read · From 2016 · Please raise your hand, if you’ve ever heard about minimum viable product (MVP) and have no clue what it is. When you talk to software…
Reader View · Shared by 892, including Patrick Scheuerer, Howard Getson, Helmi, Courtney Bolton ★, designshard, Stephen C Sanders, Emerson Macedo, von Moerenburgh, Startupxplore, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Christian Leu, Brent Summers, Christian Müller, Parin Vachhani, Dez S. Papp, Glenn Oberholzer, Matthias Lampe, Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Markus Maurer
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The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone BreaksPrototypr 👁️✨
9 min read · From 2017 · In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management
Reader View · Shared by 887, including Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Matthias Lampe, David Hellmann, Nick Floro, ThomNagy, designshard, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Dominik Grolimund, Josep M. Ganyet, Gabriele, Amel Mehenaoui, tjalve, Zain Fathoni, Lluís Codina, Tim Herbig, Thomas Pleil, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Dez S. Papp, Chris Love - PWAs 📳📱& SEO 🔎, Joe Germuska
ux
design
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Journal
Why Trello Failed to Build a $1 Billion+ BusinessJournal
~11 min read · From 2017 · In 2011, Joel Spolsky launched his company Fog Creek’s new product at TechCrunch Disrupt called Trello. It looked a lot like a whiteboard…
Reader View · Shared by 671, including Johannes Lenz, k, Weiting Chen, Brian Tomlinson 🚢, Marcus Kuhn, Dominik Grolimund, Matthew Turland, Thomas Power, ludobos.eth, Rand Fishkin, Herbert Bay, James Young 🇺🇦, Carl Morris, Eric L. Barnes, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Tris Hussey, Baadier Sydow 🇿🇦, Joan Lockwood, Oleg Baskov, Nir Eyal
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sass
unicorns
First Round
The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup IdeasFirst Round
20+ min read · 2021-09-14 · The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their…
Reader View · Shared by 655, including Bill Trenchard, Víctor González Pacheco, Quim, David Papandrew, Jonathan Kogan, Johannes Dornisch, Gabriele, Stephan Woodtli, excellent-analytical-tiger, Dirk Spannaus
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In an MVP, you try to simulate the entire car. In an MVT, you are just testing whether the drivetrain is more powerful with an electric engine or a gas one.
First Round
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market FitFirst Round
~20 min read · From 2018 · Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring…
Reader View · Shared by 610, including Teresa Torres, Marty Cagan, Satya Patel, Thomas Power, Niti Shree, Ben Tossell, Leo Polovets, dcancel.eth, TK Kader, David Bauer, Max Stoiber, Howard L Morgan, Tiago Forte, Charlene Li, Mark Kaigwa, Peter Kazanjy, Peter Hogenkamp, hiten.eth, Bill Trenchard, Bryan Harris
startups
product market fit
products
First Round
A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Community and Getting Your First 1,000 MembersFirst Round
20+ min read · 2021-11-23 · Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a…
Reader View · Shared by 591, including Kyle Bunch, ErmanTaylan.eth, Nir Eyal, Pierpaolo Alessio, Katja Evertz
startups
product design
mvp
Harvard Business Review
Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of ThinkingHarvard Business Review
7 min read · From 2014 · Customers need the right mental model to understand why they need your product.
Reader View · Shared by 591, including Call Me ❝MICKEY❞, Jörg Linder, Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, 👑Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #VeeCon, Davo ⚡, Brent Summers, Liza Sperling, Bertrand Maltaverne, Dewane Mutunga 🧠💰 | 📱 Text Me: 347-657-6682, Howard Getson, Kris Fannin, Dominik Grolimund, Raphael Bratschi, Shawn Venasse, ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Dave Esbin, Sérgio Vieira, Florian Hanke 🍎
innovation
mental models
communication
HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
Why Isn’t Agile Working?HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
5 min read · From 2017 ·  Agile project management techniques have the potential to help companies develop software focused on their customers’ needs in less time and with less waste than the old approaches. But as author John Cutler points out in this short, illustrated read from Hackernoon, agile isn’t a magic pill that will fix an organization’s productivity woes on its own. getAbstract recommends this short post as a starting point for those who may be considering an agile implementation but aren’t sure what to expect. 
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