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Sometimes hard UI can be a blessing

UX Planet

Or perhaps this perception comes from us getting used to many B2B web apps having a poor user interfaces due to a lack of investment in design. Ray Gun magazine article layout by David Carson ( designboom.com ) Disfluent typography What do David Carson, Daniel Kahneman, and an in-house product designer have in common?

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How do you Build a Winning Product Team?

Mind the Product

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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Power Up: Three Ways to Increase Your Product Leadership Power

Roman Pichler

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Nothing beats meeting real users.

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Sports Team, Not a Family

ProductPlan

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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TEI 338: Better OKRs, with the person who wrote the original OKR book – with Christina Wodtke

Product Innovation Educators

Her name is Christina Wodtke, and she is a lecturer at Stanford, sharing insight into human innovation and high-performing teams. and many others, as well as founding three startups, and the online design magazine Boxes and Arrows. 13:27] What are the steps for putting OKRs into practice in a product team? This is critical.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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How Sprout Social increased retention with customer-centric marketing

Intercom, Inc.

Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way. There’s a tired stereotype that assumes that sales and marketing teams have competing priorities – and, in turn – don’t get along. Ultimately, that leads to churn.