Over the years, I’ve watched smart people struggle with design. PMs who can’t articulate why something feels off. Engineers building features that work perfectly but feel clunky. Founders shipping products that look and feel like shit. The thing is, they often know good design when they see it. But when it comes time to create… Continue reading
We had our first AI Hackathon in New York this week, and to make sure the participants had proper guidance, I built a hackathon guide that gave step by step guidance to get their product idea up and running in the various AI code tools. In the spirit of hacking with AI, I built the… Continue reading
A single AI-generated prototype saved our startup 2 weeks of design time and prevented a $50K engineering mistake. 📊 Results at a Glance: 95% Reduction in prototype creation time 100% Team alignment on feature scope $50k Savings in prevented engineering waste Here’s how we used AI to solve the eternal product dilemma: how do you… Continue reading
Introducing the fastest, most fun way for product and design teams to accelerate AI adoption, drive innovation, and build solutions that work. We offer in-person AI hackathon-style workshops designed for product and leadership teams at growing SaaS companies. As a consultants, we work closely with you to identify real business challenges and guide your team… Continue reading
I had the opportunity to host a lightning talk on Maven with Colin Matthews where we covered how Product Managers can use AI prototyping in their day to day workflow. Over 3,000 folks attended! We covered: practical use cases for prototyping, how they can enable better communication, and tricks & tips for the best results.
User research will need to adapt, and fast. But those who adapt will have an unfair advantage. Up until now, a core value of research has been to de-risk software development. When building is expensive, mistakes are costly, especially when they’re caught late. Getting smart up front via research leads to fewer mistakes down the… Continue reading
Back in my early days of UX interaction design work, I contracted for a small, e-commerce focused agency called Epicenter Consulting. While I spent most of my time on client work, they had a side project they were building to help better present their designs to clients. That side project ended up becoming InVision (RIP)…. Continue reading
Description: “Andrew Smith, Founder and Head of Partnerships at TDA was recently joined by Jeremy Belcher, VP of Product at Auxilius! Andy and Jeremy discussed Jeremy’s career transition from design to product leadership, and how his design background and experience proved beneficial in his new role. Jeremy also shared his insights on the skills designers… Continue reading
For years, international investors sought firms in the UK as a launching point to trade assets all over Europe (and, likewise, European firms to trade in UK). Due to Brexit, that will all change on March 29th, 2019. Once Brexit is finalized, thousands of legal agreements will need to be transferred between various brokerage firms’… Continue reading
Challenge: The various products at FIA Tech were either acquired from other companies or built by either in-house and contracted teams over the years. While these developers did a masterful job weaving these complicated, data heavy applications together, the design was something of a mess, with different visual and interaction languages across the different applications. Additionally, as we added new features… Continue reading