Inkbot Design

JANUARY 24, 2024

Product Thinking: The Mindset Driving Successful Products Product thinking is emerging as a crucial skill for building great digital products in the modern technology landscape. With consumers demanding exceptional digital experiences , having a product-focused mindset can give companies an edge.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

We had incredible market fit, and a great reputation to match. I learnt an equal amount from our remarkable engineers and product managers. A shout out is due here to product managers Emily Mabin Sutton, Rodolphe Bouygues, and Jono van Deventer, product director Moustafa Khalil, and engineering manager James Clark?—?who

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UX Collective

JUNE 24, 2021

Photo by Anton Maksimov juvnsky on Unsplash I often come across companies that don’t really understand what strong product management is about, mostly because they just never have been exposed to it. So I decided to share a few fundamental product management concepts to help aspiring product people build a better product.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Top 10 Best Web Designers Creating Stunning Websites Your website is your most valuable online real estate in today's digital world. StudioPress rose to prominence by partnering with Copyblogger Media, a content marketing authority. A critical speciality is translating a startup's raw vision into pixel-perfect digital experiences.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It's an indispensable collection of apps that cover everything from photo and video editing to digital illustration, web design , UX, and print layout. For designers, the core apps include: Photoshop: The premier image editing and compositing app, perfect for photographers, digital artists, and graphic designers.

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UX Collective

JULY 13, 2021

It’s based on two famous essays: Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz Good Product Team / Bad Product Team I decided to re-write it and share it because I believe our industry needs more examples of what a true product designer (and product team) does.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 25, 2023

There, I discovered my marketing team was incentivized to increase our NPS and brand recognizability. With this in mind, I reframed the results of my study to show how they could market the fact our features did create a positive behavioral outcome. Product Management  —  why has feature bloat become such an issue?

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The importance of creating space in government for UX professionals to thrive Photo by Julien Flutto on Unsplash In 2021, I was asked to assemble a centralized User Experience (UX) team to lead the design of intuitive digital learning experiences for the Canada School of Public Service’s new learning platform.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We finished our undergraduate in Graphic Design in 2017 and since then, Yunan worked at Meta for 5 years as a designer, before transitioning to be a Product Manager a year ago; I worked at Google and Meta for the past 6 years as a designer. or become a manager? What matters is to focus on the product outcome.

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UX Collective

JUNE 11, 2021

The power of metrics entered Product Management to change it forever. Before product metrics, we were shooting blindfolded. From the Product Management perspective, acquisition metrics indicate how well we communicate with the marketing team and whether our product resonates with our target audience.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 27, 2021

If we roll back to the “offline era”, agencies were mastering the effort of documenting those frameworks into one-time published manuals. With the coming of digital, few aspects have changed: Changed: brands aren’t existing only offline anymore, but online. We can’t send everyone home and swap-in fresher, eager, digital designers.

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 24, 2023

International Marketing: Strategies and Best Practices for Global Expansion As businesses expand their reach beyond their home markets, international marketing has become essential to any successful company's strategy. But how do you effectively market your products or services in a foreign country?

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 14, 2023

The 15+ Best Marketing Books to Read Are you tired of searching endless blogs and websites for outdated and irrelevant marketing advice? We've compiled a list of the 15+ best marketing books to revitalise your marketing strategy and set you apart from the competition. The Best Marketing Books to Read 1.

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Design Beep

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Figma is widely popular among designers, product managers, and developers due to its intuitive and user-friendly interface, as well as its strong collaboration and prototyping features. Sketch A vector graphics editor and digital design tool specifically made for web and app design.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Brainstorm Cards This deck of 52 cards is divided into 4 trends: Regulation Trends , Market Trends , Technology Trends, and Customer Trends. Revolut as example of market trends) What if you delivered an augmented reality experience? The deck can be purchased via the publisher or book stores.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I had to wait 2 years before a Marketing partner approached my product manager to inquire about the feasibility. My product partner replied that it would take 3 years because the tech stacks for Bank and Card applications were so far apart. The marketing partner asked the product manager how long that would take. “3

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UX Collective

JUNE 11, 2021

Once upon a time, in my role as a digital designer, we decided to run through a web design project for a client without doing wireframes—you know, to speed things up. Introducing brand marks to clients in full-color digital form Let’s get a thumbs-up on the mark before we discuss color, m’kay? Originally published at [link].

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UX Collective

JULY 16, 2021

After all, it binds together designers, developers, and product managers in one place, players who sometimes speak different languages. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish. This way you can ensure high quality in fewer working hours, as well as easy cross-platform updates on the go.

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UX Collective

JUNE 29, 2021

Personality is, of course, a complex topic in its own right, a simplified way of thinking of product personality is that it reflects the many decisions about how a product looks, behaves, and is positioned throughout its marketing and advertisements. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This article outlines a path to ‘better’ Design-led price testing in a field which has been dominated by Economists and Market Researchers. B2B / B2C; digital product v consumer product). Innovation type and phase: The type or phase of innovation the product or service is currently at (e.g Breidert, M. Hahsler, T.

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UX Collective

MAY 18, 2021

Autodesk Shotgun UI, circa 2018 One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had during my time as a Product Manager at Autodesk has been in building out and deploying a design system. Much of the work from that point on was in defining the scope, and doing risk assessment. One of the principles we had was to favour “breadth over depth”.

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UX Collective

MAY 24, 2023

From local to global — how to serve a worldwide customer base Cameroonian people, adding money to their digital accounts My mission to understand the world, its cultures, and its people has led me to French-speaking Africa. I live in an authentic neighbourhood, buy groceries at the market, eat street food, and hang out with the locals.

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UX Collective

MAY 26, 2021

Lastly, what if you are not going to have a manager for a while? Look around and adopt a manager. Maybe it’s a senior designer or a product manager. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish. While it sucks, it is what it is. Or better, adopt a few of them! Maybe it’s a combination.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 11, 2024

A product that solves concrete tasks: ensuring consistency reducing development time and much more Most often, the main reason to create a new product is that you want it to be different from the existing ones on the market. After all, often design systems are built as a product for internal use. Let’s stay in touch!

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UX Collective

AUGUST 24, 2021

Product management Nielsen Norman Group’s Kara Pernice and Raluca Budiu have recently conducted a study exploring attitudes around the overlap between user experience and product management. Ensuring that a product is informed by user needs is totally fundamental to what user experience is.

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UX Collective

APRIL 3, 2023

Here are a few examples of how you can benefit from this research, especially for product designers and product managers: As inspiration on how other marketplaces have been designed (features, flows, interactions, copy, etc.) or, in the digital world, perhaps Etsy, eBay, Apple App Store, or Google Play, right?

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UX Collective

JUNE 13, 2021

If not, then you can go-to-market with a solution directly. But there are products omnipresent in the market that solve problems their users weren’t originally aware of. Founders working in this space go to market with a solution first and evaluate later. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish.

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UX Collective

JUNE 13, 2021

In one such company, SVPG trained the company’s Product and UX teams together, plus some Dev leaders. One product manager perma-camped in glass conference rooms, calling customer after customer after customer, week after week. Two very different behaviors emerged following the conclusion of this training. Shifting is hard.

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UX Collective

MAY 27, 2021

All I would add is that in my experience, those companies likely don’t know that they don’t have a product strategy, nor what one looks like. It’s not too much of a stretch to conclude that means a significant proportion of Product Managers are also in the same boat. Think software or digital purchases, bank accounts, etc.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This method allows for observation of the user experience’s evolution with product changes and as users grow more accustomed to it. Diary studies are also very effective for AI products. In this approach, participants maintain a diary — often digital — logging their interactions with a product or service over a period of time.

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UX Collective

MARCH 14, 2022

And even the largest companies fail to pivot when the market is moving away from their core product, like the famous example of Kodak successfully designing the first digital camera…and then deciding to scrap it. It presented too much of a risk to their core product, the film camera. The reason?

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Eye on Design

JULY 15, 2022

It was originally published on January 27, 2020. They had arrived minutes earlier, lanyards in tow, at the spacious West Village event room of Sub Rosa, a creative marketing agency whose clients include Pepsi, General Electric, and Nike, for a workshop on how to bring more empathy into their work. . Apparently it is.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 2, 2022

The developers and product managers, all so happy that they had finally gotten a UX designer, believed that all their problems were about to go away. Large corporations all around the world are contorting themselves through digital transformations in order to remain relevant and hold onto their powerful market positions.

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UX Collective

MAY 10, 2023

The current wave is cresting, ready to wash over software design and product management. And third-wave research will reach even higher, moving into product and organizational strategy. Its grounding frames are consolidated sets of user needs that extend into organizational composition and the market landscape.

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UX Collective

MARCH 3, 2022

As a freelance UX Writer, one thing I’m often hired to do is help companies find the right tone of voice to communicate with their users throughout the product experience. Innocent Drinks Even though I work mainly with companies with entirely digital products or services, Innocent has come up more than a few times.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Serendipity by design Ideas for applying serendipity principles in the digital world (I) An (un)expected discovery I love flea markets. But the phenomenon of accidental discovery is much different from how today’s computers and digital products are built.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 13, 2023

In the end, visitors were presented with a personalized report showing which pieces of art triggered the strongest brain activity, and a digital shopping cart containing the items based on their subconscious preferences. People were then set free to visit the art exhibition with the task of paying particular attention to pieces they liked.

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