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Why we never hired a designer

UX Planet

Of course, it wasn’t quite that dramatic — creativity was still thriving; it just required a more focused and specialised approach. These days, user interfaces can be built by front-end developers, and basic user research can be handled by user-oriented product managers. It almost felt like the end of creativity.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. Of course, for product teams, we have to ship something, and so we’re going to also explore solutions. We might not be talking about OKRs and jobs to be done, which is silly, because of course we still are. What’s ahead?

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7 Tips On How to Become a Full Stack Developer!

Usersnap

Web development is easy. Entering the web development industry is a relatively easy task today , but riding the information technology wave as a full stack developer is not everyone’s cup of tea. Full stack developers need to be comfortable with both the backend and front end of software development.

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[Case Study] The Roadmap to Becoming a Web Developer

Balsamiq

If you follow web development at all, there's a good chance that you saw Kamran Ahmed 's roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017. It's a giant mind map / flow chart describing all the technologies used today to build the web, broken down into front-end, back-end, and devops. Any ideas about how it will change?

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User Engagement Metrics: Essentials

UX Planet

New course alert! Im designing a course on Measuring Design techniques, strategies and tools that will help you quantify design impact. By changing Book a room to Check availability in a hotel search form, the Google team reached +17% engagement. A/B test different designs and messaging.

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Why is Agile Still Being Treated as Gospel?

The Product Coalition

The core concepts of Agile were originally defined by a small group of software developers who had mixed experiences with traditional working processes. Leveraged from other industries and not appropriate for software, most early web development schedules followed a Waterfall planning approach where tasks are worked in succession.

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Reconciling Product Management and Product Leadership

The Product Guy

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role.