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9 Best Articles in 2021
medium.com
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…
ux
product design
product thinking
HackerNoon
The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable ProductHackerNoon
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…
mvp
product management
design thinking
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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
ux
design
diseño
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…
trello
sass
unicorns
First Round
The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup IdeasFirst Round
20+ min read · Sep 14th · 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…
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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.
If you focus on MVTs instead of MVPs, you get closer to the heart of the question: Can you predict success before you launch? I believe the answer is yes. With the right approach, you can make a strong prediction about your chance of success and reduce (not eliminate) your chance of failure.
For each MVT you run, you should ask yourself again: Now that I’ve proven or disproven that risk, what are other risks I should be considering and testing against?
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…
startups
product market fit
products
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.
innovation
mental models
communication
HackerNoon
Why Isn’t Agile Working?HackerNoon
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. 
agile
change
organizations
Basecamp
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that MattersBasecamp
7 min read · From 2019 · This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full of techniques that you can apply in your own way to your own process. Whether you’re a founder, CTO, product manager, designer, or developer, you’re probably here because of some common challenges that all software companies have to face.
product management
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A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Community and Getting Your First 1,000 Members
First Round
Overengineering can kill your product
Mind the Product
Campbell’s Law: The Dark Side of Metric Fixation
Nielsen Norman Group
What is product management
Lenny Rachitsky
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Nieman Lab
The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics…Nieman Lab
2 min read · Nov 15th · Most U.S. news organizations won't let readers cancel online. The Federal Trade Commission wants that to change.
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A study of 526 news organizations in the United States found that only 41% make it easy for people to cancel subscriptions online, and more than half trained customer service reps in tactics to dissuade customers who call to unsubscribe.
If you can subscribe online, you should be able to cancel your subscription online.
Brad Frost
Design Systems are for user interfacesBrad Frost
4 min read · Nov 15th · We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design…
visual design
design
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Design systems are systems of systems, but not all systems are part of the design system.
The design system embodies important standards from across an organization, but doesn’t necessarily define or own those standards.
But these things are important!” Of course they are! They should be considered, captured, systematized, and documented. But not necessarily under the design system umbrella.
First Round
A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Community and Getting Your First 1,000 MembersFirst Round
20+ min read · Nov 23rd · 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…
startups
product design
mvp
Smashing Magazine
The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design — Smashing MagazineSmashing Magazine
20+ min read · Nov 5th · Concept testing ideas before moving into a detailed design is good UX practice. In this article, Victor Yocco presents details on how and when to engage in concept testing, as well as case studies…
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Concept testing is a blend of market and UX research
Any experience starts as an idea — a concept — and we are in line with the philosophy of putting users first when we take our ideas out to the end-user for feedback at the conceptual stage.
Mind the Product
OKRs in product management by Roman PichlerMind the Product
4 min read · Nov 12th · how to set effective product-related goals using OKRs
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In brief:  OKRs can be used to create product-related goals, but choosing the right goal for your product is more important than the specific goal-setting method you use Using a goal hierarchy model of cascading linked goals can help OKRs have benefits and drawbacks Take a collaborative approach and involve the right people in setting goals
Objectives and key results (OKRs) are a method for setting and tracking goals – an objective describes what is to be achieved while key results state how we accomplish the objective and allow us to understand how that objective has been achieved.
Lenny Rachitsky
What is product managementLenny Rachitsky
1 min read · Nov 16th · My take on the PM role
product management
product design
Mind the Product
Advice from product leaders: Five ways product and design can collaborate effectivelyMind the Product
6 min read · Oct 26th · Here are five ways product and design can forge a strong partnership, as told by members of the product management and design team at Def Method.
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Encourage a healthy tension between product and design
Use tools everyone is comfortable with
Nielsen Norman Group
Campbell’s Law: The Dark Side of Metric FixationNielsen Norman Group
7 min read · Nov 8th · When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business…
product design
Mind the Product
Overengineering can kill your productMind the Product
7 min read · Nov 16th · In today's post, Simón Muñoz speaks about one of the most prevalent issues when creating products: overengineering them.
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