Let’s explore the reasons teams engage customers and the challenges they are likely to face in doing so. — In the past, I wrote an article on how to start engaging customers without going into reasons why that may be helpful. Engaging end users in the product development process has become a textbook truth, hailed as the surefire way to build solutions that solve real problems. But as we…

Podcasts and audiobooks are truly great inventions that allow me to parallel-task. Here is how I make time for them — Besides reading, podcasts are among the few learning mediums that work for me. Podcasts give this empowering feeling of being able to cram so much more in a unit of time. When listening to a podcast, I can split my attention between a few activities unlike when reading, watching, or…

What ails your product and what you can do about it — Regardless of how good you, your development team, or your designers are there are various maladies out there that may infect your product and bring its progress to a screeching halt. …

A visual summary of the book “Getting Real” by Jason Fried from 37 Signals that describes a pragmatic approach to product development — I can’t remember where I heard about this book. Perhaps, it was on one of the episodes of Lenny’s podcast where the speaker included “Getting Real” as one of their top 3 recommended books. I got curious, googled, found it, and read it cover to cover. …

Practical info on how to make a remote usability study fun while making sure it yields results especially if you don’t do it daily — This is a continuation of a previous post with tips on running an effective usability study. This time, I want to focus on the items below. Being cold-hearted about your own product Probably one of the most difficult things to do when running usability studies on a product you are building, as a product, designer, or…

Some of the key points I recall from “The everything store” regarding how Amazon took care of their competition — Visual note-taking is one of the topics that excite and interest me. Not being an artist all my life, I am happy to discover that drawing, aside from creativity and imagination demanded to be considered a truly great artist, in essence, is just a skill. And skills can be developed…

Practical info on how to make a remote usability study fun while making sure it yields results especially if you don’t do it daily — TL;DR summary I have included the key points below. This article speaks about items from the first image in detail one by one.