One of the ongoing challenges faced by any product design team is “managing the workbench”…
Being a leader is more than just being the most senior or tenured designer on the team. In the year+ that I’ve been UX Director at Axial, I’ve gotten a crash course in design leadership. Here are some insights I’ve learned through the crucible of product design at a small…
In the history of Axial, getting all of our customers onto a universal user on-boarding…
Words are an essential part of software product design. They are a key ingredient for both…
Here’s what’s inspiring us this week:
Thomas: I enjoyed reading @kristoforts’ post about user testing. Most of our testing at Axial is done remotely with our customers…
Abstract: We’ve used a list of ~200 classifications to identify companies on Axial. This isn’t enough, so we’re increasing it to ~20,000. Here’s the story of why, and also how we’re working to ensure the UX for this…
Thomas Meimarides: Intercom has a great writeup on mobile browsers being the future universal app. I’ve often overlooked how many native apps drive you into a browser within their app. Adding this to recent…
Here’s what we’re reading this week as we prepare and recover from the great Annual American Turkey Bloat™
Thomas: After last weekend’s group-texting with friends about the current state of college…
This is the first of a weekly series of Product Design, Product Management, or otherwise 👍 👏 🙌 👌 🤘 links by the Axial product team: Sarah Adams, Giff Constable, Dan Lee, Thomas Meimarides, & Simon Riker