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
When building a new product, people say you can’t “vibe code” production ready applications. Products built on top of these platforms won’t hold up with a lot of users in a production environment. Ok…so what? Most products never get any traction at all. A recent study on Product Hunt launches showed that 487 of 500… 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
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
The newest AI coding tools for prototyping can be an amazing addition to your workflow. But like any tooling, they each have strengths and weaknesses. This is a breakdown of what I have found so far. Note: This is the state of play today – these tools are changing at light-speed so this will likely… Continue reading
The progress made on AI coding tools has been absolutely wild. I’m not a developer – I can get around a bit in HTML and CSS but definitely couldn’t reasonably market my skills as a front end engineer. However, like many product and design folks, I’ve had many ideas I wanted to try over the… Continue reading
Every single UX and Product Design portfolio I’ve ever seen says they care deeply about the end user. The portfolio has a prominently featured tagline like “user-obsessed” or “passionate about the user” or something along these lines, usually as lead in to a portfolio that presumably demonstrates this point. But in reviewing the portfolio, it’s… Continue reading
Powerpoint is proof that product distribution can be just as important as product quality, maybe more so. Powerpoint is a wildly inferior product – its fucking maddening and I hate using it. It’s worst in its class. Literally every one of these presentation products is better than Powerpoint: But I still use it, regularly. I… Continue reading
Recently, as a function of rapid growth, we were encountering problems with newly released features and functionality due to missing critical considerations in the ticketing process. In other words, we would release functionality and then realize it had product impacts we didn’t foresee. Inspired by the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, I created a new… Continue reading
Designers should regularly export their work from their company’s’ Figma and save it down to a non-company location in case they lose access to the platform. Recently, I’ve noticed many portfolios lacking many actual design artifacts. This issue stems from the shift to cloud-based design tools: you create work but risk losing access once you… Continue reading