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Ten UX/UI Design Challenges That Can Compromise Financial Apps

The Product Coalition

UX does matter. Users share sensitive data and entrust performing operations with their finances, so even minor defects in fintech products destroy confidence, make users question the company’s expertise, and what’s worse, abandon an app. How to make sure that such software products are truly universal?

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How to beta test, with award-winning learning app Pocket Prep

Usersnap

Surely all software companies are familiar with beta testing, but how well do you actually do it? We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. A feedback-driven example of beta testing.

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Core Concept: What Roles are Represented in a Product Trio?

Product Talk

What about user researchers, data analysts, product marketing managers, and all your other favorite roles? In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that a product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. Why didn’t I include user researchers? UX writers?

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I’m launching my own subscription-based UX agency

Michael J. Fordham

I’ve worked both as a software engineer and a UX designer, taking products from concept to paying customers. All of this was underpinned by extensive research and testing with potential users. So, that’s why I am starting Lightning UX. And you have instant access to a professional UX designer.

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The Power of Product-Led Growth Strategies for Cultivating Advocates

The Product Coalition

Not to mention, thanks to the viral effects the internet provides, modern users are incredibly savvy. Gone are the days when software is instantiated within an organization via a top-down approach. Users will be vocal about the products they do, don’t like using, and don’t settle for less than the very best.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Tali Melchior Tali Melchior is the Director of Product Management at Texthelp , an inclusive technology company that specializes in tools that help people in education or in the workplace read, write, and research with confidence. One was focused on retention of existing customers.

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How Quality Assurance Protects the Software Development Process

The Product Coalition

It involves testing requirements during the development process until the project is completed. This testing phase is critical that allows the software development company to move on to the next lifecycle stages. Enhances user experience: User experience is the element in the success or failure of a software product.