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Why we never hired a designer

UX Planet

Hence for many of us designer-generalists, it was time to leave print and advertising to the graphic design specialists and move on to younger, less explored fields of web and digital product design, where we could once again feel like pioneers. Fast-forward to the present day, and the story seems to be repeating itself.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager.

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16 extremely useful Chrome extensions for developers

Usersnap

With the built-in developer tools, there seems to be no further need for more tools. However, I’d like to present you with 16 of the best Google Chrome extensions for developers. 16 of the best Google Chrome Extensions for developers. Web Developer. Link: Web developer extension.

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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. More shortcuts.

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Web Designer vs  Web Developer – How do they differ?

UX Studio

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago.

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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

Allow for workshops where team members from other teams are invited to give a presentation (e.g., With less time on hand, it is important to develop procedures with the team that will fast track collaboration and delivery. This training set can be composed of workshops where I can transfer my product management knowledge (e.g.