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Over the years, I’ve been so lucky to work on teams that support my growth. Most notably, I’ve learned so much from Percolate, Dropbox, and…

Here's a guide on how to start with competency management in your product team. 5 steps to create your own product design competency maps.

The line between great leadership and being a terrible boss is surprisingly fine. Each day you’ll find yourself walking a tightrope of…

Ever wonder about the difference between leadership and management? This article shares essential insights into leadership qualities.

Pursuing a career in UX? You have options.

Learn what it takes to make the most of your design team.

It’s my first time leading a design team. When I accepted this job, I’m not super sure what Kyle said it was, but I know all I heard was…

Love letters & breakup letters. Experience journey mapping. Prototype testing tweaks. This post unpacks the unconventional but fun-and-effective methods of Brandie Ward Smith.

Terrible UX Design jobs are flooding the market right now.

Product management system that enables teams to get the right products to market faster. Designed on the Product Excellence Methodology, productboard aligns everyone on the right features to build next.

Airbnb VP of Design Alex Schleifer shares how design can become a more intentional, integrated discipline — and why it must be in order to better build products.

What is DesignOps? Where do you start? And what does it yield? DesignOps can serve as a valuable tool to address common operational challenges. In this way, the designers remain free to focus on their specific tasks in their areas of expertise, leading to an increase in the quality of the digital products.

Let PMs Be PMs Product management is at an interesting point. More and more companies embrace it as a way to supercharge the business, gratify customers and align the org, yet few product teams are able to deliver on these big expectations. I get asked by managers quite frequently how to get PMs to deliver more, … 5 Tips for Building Effective Product Management Teams Read More »

If you want to convince a business person, figure out where the potential business value is. Draw a profit tree and identify which lever will improve.

Tactics you can put into put practice to invite authenticity, cultivate self-awareness, get more feedback and lift up voices on your team.

Fareed Mosavat is a Reforge EIR and former Director of Product at Slack , focused on growth in the freemium, self-service business. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart , Zynga , and other startups. Fareed is one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts on product-led growth in b

Here’s what leaders can do today.

There's lots written about how you should build software, but few concrete examples of the messy reality as implemented by startups. Here's our process.

A set of core values makes it easier for everyone to navigate behavioral expectations at Intercom, and for individuals to...

Do you ever wonder how you can build a strong and creative team that can work toward a shared mission? Be led from the front? Be led from the back? Read on.

Design is hard—that’s what I hear from design leaders at every company I visit. As the VP of Design Education at InVision, I study how design works and breaks in businesses. After nearly a decade of…

How and why I do monthly leveling with my design team

We find out how design successful leaders manage their teams and deliver the required design excellence that drives their brands forward.

Be the leader you are, not the one people expect you to be

7 Tips to Leading a Design Team.

This is a question I hear a lot from IC designers who are curious about moving into leadership roles. Here’s what I’ve been sharing with my…

Designers, there’s a lot going on in the world right now. Structural inequalities are increasingly revealed . A big obstacle for many of…

You might know the term culture fit. You might even use it day-to-day, but hiring for culture fit could be having a hugely detrimental effect on your product organization. You may be limiting your ability to meet customer needs because of an unconscious bias across your organization. It can happen in any team, even in [...]Read More...

At Medium, Dan Pupius and his team built a tremendously successful rubric for hiring using the principles of product development. Here's how they did it.

When I joined Gem there was no design team . Many of the engineers, product managers, and customer success team members I would be working with had some experience with product designers, but nearly just as many had little-to-no exposure to product design! Meaning one of my first tasks as Hea