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What's new in Product, UX, Design, Dev and Empowering your Teams
What's new in Product, UX, Design, Dev and Empowering your Teams
New Job
What Should Every Product Manager Do in Their First 90 Days? by Product Plan
When entering a new job, you should have a strategic plan from day one to learn as much as possible, build credibility, and get ready to make real contributions.
Ken Norton delves into how your first 30 days will make a tremendous difference, setting you up for success or struggle.
UX Metrics
This article list's down the way you can measure UX success through metrics that you have available and how to interpret these insights.
How to choose the right UX metrics for your product by Kerry Rodden
Using the HEART framework, Kerry provides you with her best practice in interpreting the insights and creating metrics for your UX design.
Design Principles
Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski
Laws of UX are a compilation of the different laws and principles that designers should keep in mind when designing any user interface.
The Principles of Design and Their Importance by Cameron Chapman
Cameron gives visual examples of the 12 most common design principles and helps you check back on your designs and ensure that these principles become second nature.
The importance of language
On Exactitude in Technical Debt by Kevlin Henney
Technical debt, spaghetti code, software rot, and other metaphors always paint it as a negative. Debt can be good - you just need to know when to use it.
The mystery of the missing date by Dan Terhorst-North
Cancel this payment in a month. Seems simple right? Dan takes us on a journey through the complexity of seemingly simple tasks.
Hiring and Becoming Hireable
Hire people who give a shit by Alexandr Wang
Alexandr has come up with a simple hiring strategy. "You can't guarantee that people who care will do great work but you can guarantee that people who don't care won't. "
Incremental Changes to Help You Become Forever Employable by Jeff Gothelf
Author Jeff Gothelf discusses the learnings from his career on how to build your profile and a step-by-step guide on how to stay forever employable in your industry.
