The best articles from our Product Development team

If you have read Part I of this post you already know some issues we've had when requesting REST API’s to build our first app version. In…

Introducing the Kotlin language as an option for service creation at Gympass.

More than identifying terms and their meanings, we need to understand what they mean in people’s daily lives.

Background

2020 has been a year full of emotions for everyone, the high level of uncertainty that is surrounding us and messing up our plans and…

Design for discoverability: Critical patterns for better user experience

It’s not from today that figuring out what customer want is a challenge. Past one century, the famous quote from Henry Ford (“If I had…

Gympass was a 7-year-old startup when we were hired to build the first native app. We didn’t have an app with native features, however, we…

One of the most challenging things that I had as a software engineer, was dealing with a large amount of information at the same time…

As I explained in a previous post, Gympass App in 2018 was a full-screen WebView, with a poor User Experience, slow rendered and no usage…

Since the beginning of our first features with React Native, testing was something that interested us. Before any release, we wanted to…

Although we don’t have a specific team responsible to manage and deploy our app releases, we used to concentrate the responsibility for…

Last year, in December we had the opportunity to revisit our current front-end architecture. In this article I will try to explain what we…

And most of all, a better team

When I first got to Gympass, creating text was everyone’s job. But when something is everyone’s responsibility, at the end, it’s no ones.

In October 5th, I had the opportunity to represent Gympass in a very special event, one of the few focused on UX Research. The Recon19…

When I arrived to be the first UX Researcher in Gympass, in October of 2018, I found a complex product. For me as a researcher, it was…

For those who do not know me, I come from over a decade in the creative writing of major advertising agencies. And what I can say is that…

Why do we need to make an MVP, a Minimal Viable Product? Why do we need to hurry to launch a half-baked product? Why not wait to have the…

Your designers are incredible. Give them the equipment, tools, culture, processes and systems so they can make incredible things happen.

Well, like most people, before starting at a new company, you get a little anxious about finding out how things work at the office, if…

Applying Agile methods and culture is one of the biggest challenges for companies today.

Have you heard that growing up hurts? Well, the so-called growing pain is common, especially between 3 and 8 years old. Even doctors…