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Information Architecture Design Step-by-Step

UX Planet

Information architecture diagram. 10-step guide on how to design information architecture Designing an Information Architecture involves organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way. This step is about creating a logical structure that helps users find information quickly and easily.

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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

When running brainstorming sessions, Ellen found that engineers in particular were quick to jump to feasibility concerns. We caught up with Ellen to find out what she ended up doing and how the advice from the community has informed her thinking about brainstorming in general. You can submit your story here. Come join us there!

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Is your engineering team experiencing alert fatigue? Ask these 8 questions

Intercom, Inc.

Alert fatigue is a common problem among engineering teams that handle operations and maintain infrastructure. The result is lots of semi-meaningful alerts, noise, context-switching, and multitasking for the on-call engineer. Is the information in the alert immediately useful even if not actionable? Is the alert still relevant?

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Built for You: How customer feedback informs what we ship

Intercom, Inc.

Maria Gutierrez – Senior Director of Engineering. Maria Gutierrez: Hi, I’m Maria Gutierrez, and I’m senior director of engineering and co-site lead for our London office. I work with designers and engineers on our mobile SDKs. Engineering shapes the solution. Where does engineering fit into this process?

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At Last, the Secrets to Effective Stakeholder and Board Member Communications are Revealed!

Speaker: Heather Wilde, Coach, Speaker, and CTO at theDifference | Pandora Ovanessian, CIO, VP of Technology, and Technology Consultant | Steve McConnell, Author of Code Complete and CEO at Construx Software

Translating engineering and technological jargon in an accessible way, one that encourages contribution for improvement and helps your stakeholders understand your organizations achievements, is difficult. In order to do this correctly, CTOs must have a framework in place that allows them to impart this critical information.

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How to Hire an Engineering Consultant

The Product Coalition

To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. However, both the need and the sheer number of developers and technology consultants have made the challenge of sourcing reputable, professional, and capable software engineers even more difficult. Let’s dive right in.

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Setting and prioritizing goals as a principal engineer

Intercom, Inc.

As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time. . At Intercom, we believe that a principal engineer should “set goals autonomously and at the level of scope and ambition usually associated with a team.” Engineering org needs.

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. Product roadmaps must focus on the "now" and allow feedback to inform the "later."

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

From search engines to navigation systems, data is used to fuel products, manage risk, inform business strategy, create competitive analysis reports, provide direct marketing services, and much more. What do startups and Fortune 500 companies have in common?

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Master the art of communication for team success, informed leadership, and nurturing strong customer relationships Don't miss out and register now!

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.