UX Collective

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Both of these are features, of coursea product manager prioritized solving a pain point , a designer conceptualized the idea, an engineer built the functionality into thetool. And both solve the need (to add images to atask). Thats why were building Momentumits Jira on the backend, but with a UX that actually helps you do agile.

Production

UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2025

Product managers have launch dates. The politics of Design Systems was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Everyone already has established working patterns and people aren’t usually inclined to change.

Arts and Crafts

UX Collective

JULY 22, 2025

We also needed to find product-market fit, and therefore, we identified research as a pivotal skill for designers to have, so that they could support product managers accordingly. This framework helped us build the right skills to develop the market’s leading returns product, ultimately leading to our acquisition by Blue Yonder.

Production

UX Collective

JULY 20, 2025

Because as design becomes increasingly embedded in interdisciplinary teams — alongside product managers, engineers, marketers — the ability to communicate intent becomes as valuable as the artifact itself. We’re practicing how to talk to each other  — more clearly, more intentionally, and more often through structured thought.

Layout

UX Collective

JULY 14, 2025

We need alignment with Product Managers and Engineers. O’Reilly publishing. Need a UX, Product Design, or Research leader to help evolve your organization’s UX maturity? Gain alignment with working team At the same time, we need feedback to move the work forward. It’s fantastic. REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT FEEDBACK?

Presentation

UX Collective

JUNE 2, 2025

In these organizations, the product lifecycle isnt linear; its generative. Not product managers in backlogtriage. Theyre integrating intelligence from day one. And whats needed most is a vision that can make sense of all that complexity. Not engineers in optimization mode. Not designers stuck refining Figmafiles.

Production

UX Collective

AUGUST 7, 2025

A comprehensive guide to Systems Thinking was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. This directly addresses the “faster is slower” principle from Senge’s laws , advocating for sustainable, adaptive growth over rushed, brittle solutions.

Production

UX Collective

MAY 22, 2025

Scope Pace of change : Slow (months to years) Focus : Product requirements This layer defines core functional, content, and data requirements, accounting for the probabilistic nature of AI and defining acceptable levels of performance and variance. Bookmuse falls short. He forgot to provide even a basic date picker in the designsystem.

Production

UX Collective

JUNE 23, 2025

In the lack of dedicated teams for research and product management you are responsible for weaving the connective tissue between customers and stakeholders. Solo doesn’t have to mean alone As a solo designer, you shouldn’t think of yourself as a lone wolf. Instead, you should double-down on cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Production

UX Collective

AUGUST 7, 2025

Think twice before adopting the AI label was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. All the examples and scenarios provided in this article are not the unique truth, but at least it is our way to make knowledge part of us.

Production

UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2025

July 6,2023 Hype-driven CEOs: when innovation misses the point was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. How Deep Learning Is Revolutionizing Technology and Everyday Life , February 10,2025 IBM.

Networking

UX Collective

JUNE 17, 2025

Promptly present findings to business and product stakeholders to ensure roadmap priorities are supported by data. Work with product managers to mock up hero experiences that represent the end vision, the first step, and a few interim phases before the end can be achieved that map to delivery timelines and phases.

Production

UX Collective

JULY 31, 2025

For one task of mine, where I was designing a dashboard for internal engineers , the Product Manager and I once took quick feedback in a stand-up from the engineering director of that team , which proved helpful in rethinking the metrics we were thinking of prioritising — they simply weren’t as important as we thought they were!

Production

UX Collective

JUNE 14, 2025

How jam jars explain Apple’s success was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. It is the lack of structure in the decision-making process that is the problem.

Production

Inkbot Design

JULY 15, 2023

The 5 Best Product Management Books to Read Hey there, fellow product managers and aspiring product management enthusiasts! Look no further because today, we're diving into the world of product management books guaranteed to empower you on your journey.

Product Management

UX Collective

MAY 10, 2022

Design reviews: Regular reviews with other designers, your product team (product managers, engineers, QA, etc.), Helpful when managing up and around, giving folks at all levels visibility into our progress and the opportunity to contribute. I work on many of these activities with my product managers and engineers.

Production

Creative Market

AUGUST 18, 2021

Written by Nick Disabato and illustrated by Daniel Bogan for supreme clarity, Cadence & Slang is a top resource for product designers. According to Lincoln Mongillo, VP of Product Management of Creative Market, the book is “one of my all-time favorites.” Just Enough Research. Keeping Up with the Quants.

Production

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sale Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) Krug, Steve (Author) English (Publication Language) 216 Pages – 12/24/2013 (Publication Date) – New Riders (Publisher) −$11.41 $33.59 The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0:

Web Design

UX Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We also built a custom plugin that allowed us to push icon library changes from Figma to GitHub, then publish NPM packages for consumption by our product teams. I write and publish a new article on design, leadership, and software development every other Monday. We made magic! It was brilliant work. And it was incredibly fast!!!

Production

Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For teams of designers, product managers, and engineers who need to collaborate closely throughout a project, Figma is a game-changer. Compatible with other Affinity apps like Photo and Publisher. Host and publish sites or export clean code. Libraries of components and styles for consistent designs.

Adobe

UX Collective

MARCH 21, 2023

And then one day the Chief Product Officer came to our team (1 product manager, ~6 engineers, 1 quality assurance person, ½ a scrum master, ½ a data analyst, ½ a community liaison, and myself), and tasked us with making significant improvements. It might honestly be a once-in-the-history-of-the-internet kind of situation.

Production

UX Collective

MAY 19, 2021

BTW I have published this as an article, a presentation, a video and a set of posters only. We were feeling our way around most of the concepts included in them, but it was going to be several years before they were published. What advice would I give me? There is no book… so please don’t go looking for one. So here’s the Little Book.

Production

Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Cold Email Manifesto: How to fill your sales pipeline, convert like crazy and level up your business in 90 days or less Berman, Alex (Author) English (Publication Language) 212 Pages – 05/16/2022 (Publication Date) – Independently published (Publisher) $22.71 Wrapping up!

Client

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 2, 2024

Tools like Google Pagespeed identify optimisation fixes like: Compressing images Minifying CSS/JavaScript Removing unnecessary libraries Lazy loading lower priority content Implementing AMP or Apple Web Clips Publishers can leverage Accelerated Mobile Pages ( AMP ) to cache content closer to users, bypassing round trips to origin servers.

Project Management

UX Collective

MAY 6, 2023

Using Miro to review the interface by the “7 Qualities” The “7 Qualities” can also benefit product managers and art directors by enabling them to provide more constructive feedback on a designer’s work. Furthermore, programmers can develop more user-friendly interfaces even without a designer’s guidance. Happy designing!

Production

UX Collective

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Arigatô ありがとう The deeper meaning behind Japan’s unique UX design culture was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Each culture has elements we should learn from. I think Japanese culture has many. Let’s all look a bit more holistically.

Fonts

Inkbot Design

MAY 18, 2022

In collaboration with product managers, marketers, developers, UX experts, and others, designers develop creative ways to build a new set of brand values into the products they develop. In fact, according to a study published by IBM, most consumers have a favourable view of brands and see themselves as brand advocates.

Brand

Inkbot Design

JULY 18, 2023

This feature enables efficient content planning and saves time by automating the publishing process. At its core, Shopify offers essential eCommerce functionalities, such as product management, inventory tracking, and order processing. Hootsuite also provides comprehensive social media monitoring capabilities.

Internet and Software Development

UX Collective

AUGUST 22, 2023

But here’s another layer of complexity: our stakeholders, ranging from product managers to CEOs, also bring their own palette of biases. The power of colour in UX was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Arts and Crafts

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I’ve often been in a situation where engineering or a product manager assumed an answer to a problem, but as we asked more probing questions, we realized that there may be more solutions to the primary problem than the one suggested. An illustration of two people, a UX designer and product manager, in karate gis face off inside a dojo.

Product Management

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Product managers use roadmaps to share their plans with stakeholders, customers, and team members. Roadmaps also provide a way for teams to collaborate more effectively by aligning their work and keeping everyone on the same page about what’s happening in the product development process. First, let us review the groundwork.

Production

UX Collective

MARCH 28, 2023

Product Visioning Process This is the process I have used to guide teams to create product visions that led to transformative change in the business and use experience: Product Visioning Process Plan Crafting a vision is a project in and of itself and therefore requires planning and dedicated bandwidth.

Production

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

While 29 of the total 93 guidelines focus on UX, the most contentious and most important tackle Business Strategy And Product Management. The guidelines, which the group say have been inspired by W3C’s work on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines covers ‘ User-Experience Design’ in some detail.

Digital

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.) Publishers (companies or developers) create products to grow their businesses and improve experiences.

Internet and Software Development

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. Changed: visual frameworks aren’t defined “one time”, then published and delivered in a manual. Some of them became real icons. Changed: online means constantly evolving, connected, measurable.

Branding

UX Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

but always have solid reasons why Illustration via pixeltrue Embrace opportunities to talk about your design work During the first couple months, my product manager wanted to protect my comfort level by saying “Let me know if you’d like me to drive the discussion around the designs!” (I I know, he’s genuinely so considerate).

Production

Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Producing UX Copy For Scale A product manager or engineer may handle UX writing at small startups. But for mid-size and enterprise products, the volume of UX copy required calls for dedicated UX content teams. Personalised email body copy performs best by speaking directly to users’ needs or interests.

Arts and Crafts