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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Becoming a product person seems to be easier with access to clear guidelines. It is a good tool to have and can be used over and over again. .

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. Why is that?

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use.

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Why we never hired a designer

UX Planet

Just as the standardisation of brands through corporate brand guidelines once signalled the end of exploration in advertising agencies, the standardisation of user interfaces through unified patterns and design systems now marks a similar trend in digital product design.

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IBM’s Arin Bhowmick on designing ethical AI

Intercom, Inc.

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. User research is a vital part of the design process. Since Thomas Watson Jr.