We were travelling when we got the news. Our little family had just spent a magical white Christmas together in the beautiful Old City of Quebec. Right before that, we’d been exploring the pristine rainforests of Costa Rica. We’d marvelled at warm sunsets streaked across Venice skies, and we soaked…

Go beyond ChatGPT with these powerful AI tools. — Over the past months, ChatGPT has gained a lot of users because it’s so good at writing emails, blogs, code, and more. However, there are other tools that use the model behind ChatGPT to go beyond what ChatGPT can do. In this article, I’ll share a list of tools that…

Exploring the similarities & establishing the differences between SDK & API. — SDK & APIs both offer tools and resources that can help developers build their apps. However, SDKs are typically more comprehensive and provide a wider range of resources. If you a novice developer who is just starting a new project? Or are you a self-taught developer who finds the concept…

An ‘aha moment’ is the moment a new user first realizes the value in your product. While it is called a ‘moment’, it is more a set of actions that separates users who are likely to retain from those who will churn. For Facebook this is when a new user…

Reinventing our Brand Experience — At Alan, we’ve always been excited about the potential of new technologies to redefine the way we approach design and communicate with our audience. …

By using my list of Don’ts, I can eliminate a lot of things in life. — As a frequent journaler, I often write about the things I want to do in life. But I also often write about the things I don’t want to do. Writing this ‘To Don’t List’ gives me clarity. Too many people are focused on what they should do to achieve their…

A holistic approach to PM Core Competencies In 2016, I applied to be an astronaut in the most recent Canadian Space Agency Recruitment Campaign. While I didn’t get selected, I did get through initial rounds and it really opened my eyes to not only the type of characteristics and skills…

Cet article est consacré aux coulisses de la création et du lancement de Jesuispm.com. Tu sauras tous les outils, astuces et méthodes utilisés qui ont permis d’imaginer, développer et lancer ce site. Avant de tout te dévoiler, quelques mots sur ce site. L’objectif du site est de rassembler tous les…

As designers, it’s important for us to stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, and ideas. One way we often do this is by finding inspiration from other designers’ work. There are many places online to find ideas, but Dribbble and Behance are two of the most popular. However. one…

Exploring the unique challenges of making changes within an open-source, volunteer-led environment. Plus: the importance of prototyping. — Hey, I’m Alex Hollender. For the past 5 years I’ve worked as a UX designer on the Readers Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Each designer at the foundation is part of a product team, and focuses on a different experience/platform (for example: there’s an Apps team that works on…

On vous parle de produit depuis un an au sein de PwC France avec une première consécration le PwC Store. Ce que je propose de partager aujourd’hui, c’est une immersion au cœur de notre écosystème produits avec au centre le product management. Qu’est ce que le product management au sein…

And why it’s important — No one can afford to target everyone. Identify your ideal customer and tailor your product(s), messaging, and positioning accordingly. Who are your customers? I mean beyond the logos, who ARE your customers — especially your most successful ones? What characteristics do they share? Is it their geography? Their market/industry? Their…

According to the Customers 2020 Report, By the year 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. Some may say that we are already in the age of customer experience. That implies a laser like focus and due diligence on user experience (UX) elements…

This product roadmap template gets the job done. — Up until recently, no one really knew what product roadmaps were supposed to look like, but we all knew something had to change. At my old companies, we were using JIRA and a release planner to communicate our product plans. …

Few weeks back we had organised an event around the theme — Data Science Fundamentals for Product Managers. Chinmaya Behera who has worked as a Data Science Product Manager in Naukri.com and RedBus spoke wonderfully well on this topic. We are capturing his thoughts in the blog below. We hope…

or ‘I’m a Designer, I Don’t Need to Understand’ — I’m a designer. I like engineers. Maybe I like them a little too much. When I joined the Groups team at Facebook I remember foaming at the mouth the first time I talked to an iOS engineer who had been on the team for quite a while. I started spouting…

I've been lucky to be part of the early growth of several really interesting and now important networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. One of the things that I felt working on each of these is that we never looked at numbers or metrics in the abstract -- total page…

Part 1: Is design for me? And what are my options? Chances are you landed on this post because: 1) you hate your job, 2) you need a change, and 3) you’re thinking about making design your new career. If so, congratulations — you’ve already taken the first, and perhaps the hardest, step. …

Uber tackles their biggest pain points with science. — I think Uber is just very different; there’s no model to copy. - Travis Kalanick, Co-founder of Uber Available in 600 cities spread across 65 countries with more than 75 million users, Uber has become the default transport choice for many. The scale and speed of adoption have been incredible…

Summary Together with a team of three other UX designers, and as part of a mock two-week design sprint on the UX Immersive course at General Assembly, I was tasked to redefine Deezer’s mobile app changing their curation process and allowing users the opportunity to record and then upload their own…