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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
Product Marketing
Udemy’s Chicken-and-Egg Problem by Gagan Biyani
A great example of how Udemy solved the major challenge of building a two-sided marketplace. Fake > Make > Grow
Good to Great Product Marketing by Martina Lauchengco
If you build it they don't always come. Marketing and product need each other. This is a great podcast / article to dig deeper.
UX Research
Five Traits of Great User Researchers by Paula Bach
Scientific, creative, self-measuring, proactive, and Innovative. It's a lot to fit in but Paula explains why they're necessary along with resources for further reading.
It is less about your portfolio and more about your "vector of growth". Focus on what and how you've learned.
Design Tools
10 Great Figma Plugins for Designers by Courage Egbude
Using Figma? Here's a list of 10 plugins that have helped Courage streamline his workflows.
Unity, Not Uniformity With Design Systems by Hayley Hughes
Learn how to remove the barriers to creativity and unlock innovation in your organisation by inspiring unity, not uniformity, with your design language system.
Optimisation
Velocity Should Be Renamed “Future Tech Debt” by Jeff Gothelf
Managing for story points or velocity instead of value will result in more code. It also keeps developers away from discovery as they need to focus purely on delivery.
Gert takes a look at adding contemporary characteristics to PWAs, from functioning offline to user-friendly permission requests.
Enabling Teams
Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions by John Hagel III
Often leaders assume that people look to them for answers. But in reality, that kind of approach erodes trust, especially at a time when so much is uncertain.
What Language Do You Speak? by Mihaela Draghici
From this talk, you'll understand what 'speaking the right language' means for a PM and that it can be a 'make or break' our products.
UXDX APAC is shaping up to be a great product event. Don't miss out on our regular sale of tickets.
Prices will increase on 20th February!
Tickets: uxdx.com/apac/2021/tickets
