I just shared a post I’d been thinking about for several years. I’ve included the intro below but the full post is on UX Collective. It’s been almost ten years since Marc Andreessen said, “Software is eating the world.” At the time, coding was indispensable The cost of hosting and scaling a product had plummeted […]
SeeAround.me began as a side project. I wanted to learn some new skills, improve others and, more than anything, test an idea. When I started, I worked nights and weekends and progress was relatively slow. But when it turned out that people were interested in the project, I made a concerted effort to improve and […]
As background, here are some details about local news and the startup I worked on. This was the first product I truly built. I’ve advised on many others (a combination of B2B/SaaS and consumer), but typically at a higher level, like feature prioritization based on market/user research. I was never involved with the ongoing building process before. Here, I was […]
Originally posted on Medium Good product design — based on user research — ensures you build the right product TL;DR: Use product design to inform what you are building or risk a slow horrible startup death. Specifically, get the user research right at the outset (frameworks included). Founders/builders/future-self: this is a starting point for building a product. Product designers: if […]