LaunchPad Lab

4 Must-Read Startup Books You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

Hardware is Hard, and your UX is Creepy

Stage 1 of my quest to ease our office restroom queue.

Finding a foothold

Customer discovery means finding an entry point into a customer’s life

Customer Interview Smells

Be on the lookout for these red flags when collecting feedback from…

In Defense of Non-Presentational React Components

React components, especially stateless functional components, are typically used to generate UI elements on a web page. However, a React component doesn’t necessarily need to render anything at all. A classic example of this behavior is the…

Say No to If/Else Statements

One of the first lessons we learn in programming is how to write a conditional. If/Else statements seem so central to programming that it is hard to imagine a world without them.