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CSS filters, GIFs, and performance — What I Learned Building...
It turns out that that’s indeed possible, and using CSS transforms we can scale up the image using the GPU, which gives us a reasonable performance boost.
232 links collected from medium.com between 2013 and 2025
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2013
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Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup
Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar
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Interfaces in need
Facebook doesn’t need your design help. But there are many other companies that do.
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Utveckling & koddesign
Tweets från hösten 2013. Peter Lindberg
2014
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Artificial Selection
Artificial Selection is the gradual, predetermined process in which interface elements and components change as a result of observing a user’s interactions. The interface adaptations are made possible by external and historical information about the user.
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Passwords are Obsolete
The basic idea is that instead of using a password to authenticate each user, a temporary secret code is sent to them over a secure channel. Email or SMS is that (mostly) secure channel.
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Giving Animations Life
I’m excited to see all the projects that have come out lately that are simplifying the process of animating for the web. With the increased browser support for performant animations and more people starting to work with them more seriously, I would like to believe that we are about to enter the golden age of web animation.
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Meteor is F***ing Awesome
Below are a few broad reasons I’m excited about Meteor.
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How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet
On Saturday, a Twitter account appeared that perfectly predicted the outcome of the final World Cup game, down to who scored the winning goal for Germany. It was a con—and a classic one.
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47% of initial applications for our Hacker Retreat came from women. This is how we did it
As we laid the groundwork for Hacker Paradise, we wanted to ensure that retreat participants were more diverse than the usual suspects, caucasian males in their twenties. We approached the problem head on — as a result, 14 out of 30 the applications from our initial outreach came from women. Here are some lessons we learned along the way.
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Why hackathons should conclude with an Expo — How to throw a hackathon
Hackathons aren’t about the judging or the prizes. They are about hacking
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Spotify, We Need To Talk About Your Data...
You have flirted with giving us users a taste of our data, but still favor using it to feed your increasingly expensive recommendation engine that still thinks Skrillex would be just perfect on my Michael Buble radio station
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In today’s App Store environment, it’s more important than ever to market and demonstrate your apps in the best way possible. A video is essential for informing potential customers what your app is all about. With Apple soon giving developers the option to feature videos on iTunes, a good promo is something every app should have. (via Let’s Make a Promo — Medium)
In today’s App Store environment, it’s more important than ever to market and demonstrate your apps in the best way possible. A video is essential for informing potential customers what your app is all about. With Apple soon giving developers the...
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How to create a tech event where everyone feels welcome
The story about Hackaway — how we created a hackathon out of the ordinary.
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How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
There are, however, five things I wish I had asked myself before starting this painful journey. Five questions I believe every future entrepreneur should ask himself before taking the first step to entrepreneurship:
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Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
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Lessons learned while designing a timeline
You see, I recently designed a timeline to present users with a view of their tax history. Naturally and probably subconsciously, as a user of Facebook and Twitter, the first thing that came to mind was a timeline. Since this is the first tax season our users will be interacting with their tax data in this format I cannot speak to whether it is a successful way to do it or not. Instead, here’s what I learned along the way.
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Notes on ‘I’m a Feminist and so can you!’
I recently spoke at the Nordic.js conference in Stockholm about women in tech — the organizers had seen my "How to get more women in tech in under a minute" Ignite talk and were looking for something that would introduce the predominantly male audience into issues surrounding gender inequality, in an accessible way.
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What I would recommend instead of Angular.js?
As you can see, to develop the state of the art web application right now, you don’t need Angular nor jQuery.
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Why Japanese Web Design is NOT so different
The simplicity and modernity that is often seen in Western Web Design gave these users the impression of not providing enough information, which made them uneasy and engendered a lack of trust.
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A Designer’s Sublime Text Setup
Why would someone pay $70 for this? But once again, Google has all the answers you need. After taking some time to really get the essence of Sublime Text, I fell in love with it. Here’s my setup.
2015
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JavaScript Application Architecture On The Road To 2015
I thought it might be salutary to look at the state of application architecture in the JavaScript community as we ebb our way towards 2015. I’ll talk about composition, functional boundaries, modularity, immutable data structures, CSP channels and a few other related topics.
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Flux in practice
So, what does it actually mean to write an application in the Flux way? At that moment of inspiration, when faced with an empty text editor, how should you begin?
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Center and crop images with a single line of CSS
It’s simple. Set your image crop dimensions and use this line in your CSS: img { object-fit: cover; } That’s it. No need for unsemantic, wrapping divs or any other nonsense.
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Understanding Flux
As promising as these concepts sound, they are too abstract to be entirely useful. What follows should hopefully express these ideas in a more practical light.
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React + Backbone Router
Today we’ll take a look at how to use React with Backbone’s router.
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7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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Invisible animation — Medium
Good animation is invisible. You shouldn’t notice that you’re looking at animation.
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Coding Like a Girl
Before you are about to explain a paper condescendingly to someone in a dress, assume that they wrote it.
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Medium’s CSS is actually pretty f***ing good
I’ve been meaning to write something about the CSS at Medium for a while because I’m not completely ashamed of it...
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JavaScript World Domination
One thing seems pretty clear, though: JavaScript is not going away anytime soon — so one might as well learn a thing or two about it. Just in case.
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No Dickheads! A Guide To Building Happy, Healthy, And Creative Teams
The difficulty of innovating within a large corporation reflects a work environment where people often say, "No" or "I don’t understand" because change in corporate culture is often uncomfortable and slow. As a result, negativity must be confronted and countered — not just in a brainstorming session or during a proposal — but on a daily basis.
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The Shut-In Economy
In the new world of on-demand everything, you’re either pampered, isolated royalty — or you’re a 21st century servant.
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We are surrounded by inefficient and distracting treadmill interfaces that get in the way of running. (via Rethinking Treadmill Interface)
We are surrounded by inefficient and distracting treadmill interfaces that get in the way of running.
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Two React Tips — Medium
Don’t ever render to document.body. A lot of React examples do that because it’s less typing and looks more clear. Don’t. Do. This.
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Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
But more importantly: it’s money from people who weren’t paying for journalism before. My friends have never paid for music and movies, until Spotify and Netflix. And with Blendle, they’re paying for journalism, often for the first time in their lives.
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Slack’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce
It looked like a hacked together version of IRC in the browser. Barebones and stark. Just six weeks later, we had done some of the best work of our careers. So, how did we get from hacky browser IRC to the Slack we all know and love?
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Universal JavaScript — Medium
Nobody knew what the hell it meant, but now instead of just writing JavaScript the people were writing Isomorphic JavaScript.
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JavaScript Scene Tech Survey Results
Angular currently dominates the front end component library landscape, but judging by these results, React seems poised to give Angular a run for its money in the coming months.
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How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon — Medium
She helpfully pointed me to the poster next to mine which proclaimed, "Nothing at Facebook is someone else’s problem." The lady icon needed a shoulder, so I drew it in
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When the heck did learning to code become cool?
Although the Internet has made our lives collectively easier, the dynamic of learning to program totally different from when I was starting out.
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The Web We Have to Save
But apps like Instagram are blind — or almost blind. Their gaze goes nowhere except inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.
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Tutorial: Handcrafting an Isomorphic Redux Application (With Love)
In this article you’ll learn how to forge your very own Redux application
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Hur rolig är din digitala kundtjänst?
Ingen går säker. Kommuner, myndigheter, företag och organisationer får parodikonton.
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How to Build a High Velocity Development Team
Do you trust your employees to be productive when they’re not in a place you can watch them? Do you trust them to make the most productive use of their time? If your answer is no, why on Earth would you hire them in the first place?
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Container Components
One React pattern that has had the greatest effect on my code is the container component pattern.
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Here’s why paying candidates to solve problems works
Paying candidates to work on a simple project and then discuss it with our team has almost single handedly eliminated any bad hiring decisions. Paying a candidate that gives you a terrible solution (or no solution) is FAR cheaper (both financially and emotionally) than hiring the wrong person, going through a 3 month performance improvement plan to try to make them the right person and eventually firing them.
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Silly side projects — FunFunFunction #4 — mpj on programming — Medium
That is why I’ve started to do intentionally silly projects — projects that have no business value, no market. That way, they don’t risk sliding into work mode.
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Use Simple Data Structures
Choosing the data structure that’s the absolute tightest fit for the problem at hand is likely a premature optimization
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How to stop feeling like a failure — Thought Pills
Back then Julius Caesar wouldn’t send you a tweet. You couldn’t follow Napoleon on Facebook. Or take a look at Gandhi’s Instagram account.
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GraphQL in Production
We are using GraphQL and a Relay-like interface to power our Summer Academy. Our students have a SPA interface that they can use to browse the curriculum, watch recorded lectures, and ask questions.
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Masking SVG Animations
If you’re like me, and starting to tire of the perfectly-linear, SVG line animations stampeding through the web at the moment, add this little trick to your tool belt and let’s get creative!
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System shock
There lay, dormant, an old-fashioned System font from 1990 — alongside some vintage software routines necessary to render it. Dormant, that is, unless someone asked for it with CSS. Which we, inadvertently, did.
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Why I’m not staking my future on MeteorJS. — Medium
If you pick Meteor because it’s hot, and not because you understand it, your costs will be higher, your development team will be limited by Meteor’s design decisions
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The Rise and Fall of Everest (the App) — Medium
First, make it easy. Then make it fast. Then make it pretty.
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The Stack That Helped Medium Drive 2.6 Millennia of Reading Time
For a site as seemingly simple as Medium, it may be surprising how much complexity is behind the scenes.
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Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture
This allows you to focus on speed, giving your web apps the same instant loading and regular updates you’re used to seeing in native applications.
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Software Engineer Traits — Engineering Leadership
It’s unlikely any engineer works entirely in isolation. Understanding people’s feelings and perspectives is an important part of working in a team.
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Why I use Tape Instead of Mocha & So Should You
Mocha does way too much and gives developers way too many assertion choices, and that leads to analysis paralysis and lost productivity.
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The Dribbblisation of Design
...created with one eye towards Dribbble. Things that look great but don’t work well. Perfect pixel executions of flat design, but they don’t address real business goals, solve real problems people have every day, or take a full business ecosystem into consideration.
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Streamlining CSS Print Design with Sass
We have officially deployed and launched Sass support in our publishing toolchain, and are releasing our first set of Sass stylesheets into production. In the coming months, we’ll be continuing to add new designs to our Sass stylesheet corpus, as well as iteratively improve existing templates.
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Unicorns vs. Donkeys: Your Handy Guide to Distinguishing Who’s Who
One can assume that tech companies who don’t obey the Fundamental Law of Growth will eventually lose access to capital, drastically slow their growth, and watch their valuations plummet — those fabled unicorns will eventually emerge as donkeys.
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Around The World With Uber
I was impressed by Uber’s localization efforts. From changing the colors of cars in the interface to rearranging ride options, there were several well-thought-out solutions Uber presented in their app.
2016
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Uber för kiosker
I dagsläget är idén om kiosken som en tjänst (KaaS) för svårt för de småföretag som driver kiosk, men allt eftersom sensorer, dataanalys och IT-infrastruktur på fickan blir mer överkomliga och lätta att använda öppnas några fler möjligheter.
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Javascript Fatigue
The Javascript pendulum has swung from restrictive, monolithic frameworks to modular, boilerplate-hindered libraries. Soon enough, I’m confident it will settle in the middle between rapid development and customization.
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How we Redux
I wanted to explain how we implement Redux, a certain flavor of Flux architecture, in MeteorJS
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Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words
This UI has a special role: it is a social mediator. It’s standing in for the user and speaking for them; the UI becomes part of their digital body language.
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The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
When parts of the community are viciously turning on the people that have introduced millions of users to the currency, you know things have got really crazy.
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Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
OOP is supposed to help us manage state and model problems in terms of familiar objects, but it turns out to be really, really easy to put behaviors in the wrong objects and thereby produce Frankenstein entities that make no natural sense.
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When Standup Can’t Be Standup
Any time you’re discussing a practice, ask out loud: what are our goals with this practice? Why do we do it? What benefit does it give us? What benefit could it give us?
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Welcome to Future of Web Application Delivery
I’m still just geeking out that I can finally deliver an application over the wire the way I’ve always wanted to without having to be a programming genius.
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Containers Are Dead. Long Live Observable Combinators — Medium
I really like Cycle.js. It is simple and declarative. But it has two caveats.
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React to this nonsense and move on
Even the developers of Angular realised, that something’s wrong with it.
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Excellent points, Phil
When I started with Angular, I had a colleague refer to it as the "SharePoint of JS frameworks"
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Dribbble and The Creation of The Useless Designer
Dribbble community grew into desiring complete aesthetic Porn, with "function" going out the window and only caring about "form".
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React.js pure render performance anti-pattern
Avoid creating new arrays, objects, functions or any other new identities during render or in Redux connect(mapState)
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Designing a More Expressive Profile Picture
Being able to prioritize and cut features can be one of the hardest parts of being a designer, but doing so allows you to get designs out in the world in order to validate and build a better experience for the next iteration.
- medium.com
Designers shouldn’t code. They should study business.
...they have designers that are focusing more on what those businesses need than on how perfect every pixel is going to look.
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Why UX Extends Beyond The Screen
Sometimes what makes a great experience is what the user doesn’t have to do.
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Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose.
Constant pressure to hurry reduces our ability to be proactive. We don’t take the extra twenty minutes to understand design intent and cut out several days of work.
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Hiring, the single most important skill as a founder
Great people build great products, get great customers and eventually will build a great company.
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Managing Style Guides at Shyp
How we use Github for design collaboration
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Career Advice No One Tells You — Life Learning
In the beginning of your career, your technical skills matter the most. ... But as time goes on, those technical skills start to matter less. How you interact with people starts to matter a lot more.
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Microinteractions in mobile banking
Micro interactions play an important role here, those little details that make the different and push the experience a bit more up.
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The perfect npm storm — a tale of stale node_modules and incidents
Enough safety incidents over time will always create an accident
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User Onboarding Isn’t a Feature
Before you jump into designing a new onboarding flow, figure out what you should be getting people to do in the first place.
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Scrum does not work here in Asia
Agility is still like an accessory in the majority of Asian companies, people don’t really do it for the value behind it but for the sake of staying cool amongst the world.
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Why Employee Onboarding is Holding Back Your Team, and How to Get it Right
A good onboarding process can reduce "Team Debt" and ensure that new employees are additive rather than subtractive.
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Learnings from a hackathon with kids
So, how did our first hackathon for kids turn out? First of all, the kids had fun and so did we. Great success!
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Employee Onboarding: make their first day matter
A new employee will spend much of their first week evaluating whether or not they fit in and if they made the right job decision.
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Seek out jobs with fast learning cycles
Find a place with a fast learning cycle, and a steep learning curve.
- medium.com
I’ve Just Liberated My Modules
NPM is no longer a place that I’ll share my open source work at, so, I’ve just unpublished all my modules.
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First impressions with Adobe Experience Design
I can see a lot of potential with Xd, however I also see that Adobe has a mountain to climb to even catch up to other apps already in the marketplace.
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Winners and Losers in The Conversational UI Landscape
Channeling services and content carelessly through a trendy UI might hurt businesses a lot in the cruel app-world of no-second-impression-to-make.
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Designing smart notifications
If we can gather and analyze all that data what would truly smart notifications look like?
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Employee onboarding: a successful first week
Allowing a new employee to add value early on, and recognizing them for it is invigorating.
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Why Spotify’s navigation is broken
The Spotify app as a whole is designed well visually but in terms of user experience it feels quite frustrating to use.
- medium.com
Buttons in Design Systems
Embrace the button as a leading representation of a system’s style.
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I was an undercover-bot for 2 months. Here is what I learned
Some platform have seen some success with limited bots, but I suspect it has to do more with an audience of tech early-adopters who are willing (and happy) to memorize command-line style interactions.
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How to Use Classes and Sleep at Night
I think we’re in a weird transitional period where the widespread usage of classes is a necessary evil because they are limiting.
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Catalog of Great `class` Alternatives — Medium
There are so many great alternatives to class inheritance in JavaScript, and they’re all better than `class` for their specific use-cases
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Product Scope : Goodbye Features. Hello, User Scenarios?
Doing things, for the sake of doing them, makes your feature checklist longer than your competitors. This further amplifies the negative feedback loop.
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Misunderstanding ES6 Modules, Upgrading Babel, Tears, and a Solution
I realized that the problem wasn’t exporting the object as a default, but how I expected that I could import the object. I always assumed that I could export an object as the default and then destructure the pieces out of that object I needed
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The Future of Browser History
We do not usually search for something that leads to a single result that answers our question, rather we search for terms and then explore the internet, connecting bits and pieces of the answer as we read through the web of tabs that our search starts for us.
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Complexion Reduction: A New Trend in Mobile Design
Follow these guidelines and you’ll have an award winning app in no time.
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Stop the overuse of overflow menus
Designers frequently confuse obfuscation with simplification. Simply hiding features seems like you’re creating a "cleaner" and more easy-to-use interface.
- medium.com
QR Code, why it works so well in China?
For Chinese people, especially those don’t know English, scanning code is much easier than typing in English letters.
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Hover is dead. Long live hover.
Don’t use hover as the primary action to trigger anything essential. Ever. For 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 rest 👏🏼 of 👏🏼 your 👏🏼 life.
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Design Doesn’t Scale
How does a team of distributed designers, spread across different time-zones, projects and competing objectives ever find a way to work together so they can create one coherent experience?
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Is this my interface or yours?
Some say it’s my stuff. Some say it’s your stuff. If you’re designing an interface, does it matter whether the words are written from the user’s point of view or the product’s point of view?
- medium.com
Running Services Using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service
Now that we understand important concepts like scheduling, state management, and resource allocations, let’s see these in action by actually running a service in ECS.
- medium.com
Space in Design Systems
From Basics to Expanded Concepts to Apply Space with Intent
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You’re probably doing DNS wrong, like we were
The good news is that there are two relatively simple steps we can take make our sites exponentially more resilient
- medium.com
Clearing up the Babel 6 Ecosystem
Provide your code with an emulated ES2015 environment by either requiring babel-polyfill, or requiring the babel-runtime module plus the babel-plugin-transform-runtime transform
- medium.com
Javascript Package Managers 101
Ever wondered what a package manager is made of? Why are lockfiles considered bad practice for libraries but good for apps?
- medium.com
Amazon Go and the Future of Work
Amazon has created a small Seattle grocery store that allows customers to just take what they want off the shelves and leave, without having to wait in line or check out with a cashier.
2017
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Design for internationalization
Because many apps are only designed with English in mind, some design details can get lost in translation if you’re not careful.
- medium.com
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
After more than ten years, I’m finally ready to believe I’m a good programmer. Just like people kept telling me all along.
- medium.com
You don’t have Impostor Syndrome
Overcoming impostor syndrome is not the issue for the vast majority. The real struggle is to not feel intimidated and diminished by assholes
- medium.com
Impostor Syndrome Is Not Just a Confidence Problem
Men in tech who don’t code are presumed to be coders, and women in tech who do code are presumed to be "marketing chicks."
- medium.com
Take the Time to Use Fewer Words
If a user experience needs an explanation, something is fundamentally broken. Consider redesigning the experience until people no longer need it explained to them.
- medium.com
You don’t need a Chief Security Officer
Removing this early accountability towards security will deny your team culture from appreciating an entire area of debt they’ll face later on.
- medium.com
Rethinking URL bars as primary browser UI – Medium
Why do we show users the URL at the very top of every page? Is that the UI we would design if web browsers were invented today?
- medium.com
Lossless Web Navigation with Trails
The goal of trails is to construct not only a window into web content but a narrative of user activity
- medium.com
Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?
Maybe that’s one of the reasons millennials love it
- medium.com
How we’ve destroyed user stories
We should be thinking of stories as just one method of building a shared understanding and not the outcome.
- medium.com
Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome – reloading
Preload resources you have high-confidence will be used in the current page. Prefetch resources likely to be used for future navigations across multiple navigation boundaries.
- medium.com
Why Are App Install Banners Still A Thing?
Because Apple hasn’t implemented PWA technologies in Safari and functionally prevents others from doing so, the expectations of iOS users regarding the web are set low
- medium.com
Why you should enforce Dangling Commas for Multiline Statements
Let’s dig into it and find out why so many people use dangling commas.
- medium.com
If You Want to Be Creative, Don’t Be Data Driven
Creativity allows us to take the data we have, question our starting assumptions about what the data is telling us, and experiment until we make something useful out of it.
- medium.com
Vad fick grannen för huset? MittMedias nya textrobot skriver en text så fort ett hus har sålts
I den här första versionen av boten så kan vi förutom de förväntade datapunkterna så som pris och vem som köpt och sålt, även visa ut om det gjorts någon annan bostadsaffär i närheten. Beroende på datat så vinklas artiklarna olika
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The problem with ‘roadmap first’ teams
Great products are born only when the core features are the team’s main focus, and iterations and improvements are part of the team’s culture. The key is adding value, and not just marking more V’s in the checklist.
- medium.com
Advice From A 19 Year Old Girl & Software Developer
I hope to inspire some people to also get involved in the tech world, and that it’s really not as scary as it seems.
2018
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Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It)
There’s no one number that represents a company’s customer experience. Not even NPS. Yet, that won’t stop us from trying.
- medium.com
Human-Centered Design and the Missile False Alarm in Hawaii
Let loose on the emergency alert system some good interaction designers who are knowledgeable about humans and familiar with human-centered principles. They will come to your rescue before you need it.
- medium.com
The Modular Monolith
we have a way of communicating with all third-party APIs that we use which is completely separated from any persistence or application logic.
- medium.com
Testing Microservices, the sane way
The sooner we come to terms with the fact that it’s a fool’s errand to try to predict every possible way in which a service might be exercised and write a regression test case for it, the sooner we’re likely to embrace a less dysfunctional approach to testing
- medium.com
An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2018
Know the big picture of the state of JavaScript testing in the web development community for 2018
- medium.com
What is a glossary, LOL? Documentation for the disorganized content strategist
Some projects can’t get off the ground till everyone agrees on what certain words mean. Some teams confuse one another by referring to UI elements with different terms. Some teams need someone to reframe words like "innovative" and "optimize" for them so that they can start thinking like their users and have more empathy for them. Some executives just ask for one for no reason.
- medium.com
Better Words Make Better Products
When you have that many people writing for ONE single brand, how do you make sure that no matter where you interact with Microsoft, the words feel like they were written by the same team?
- medium.com
Listing Embeddings for Similar Listing Recommendations and Real-time Personalization in Search
We believe that the embedding approach for personalization and recommendation is very powerful and useful for any type of online marketplace on the Web.
- medium.com
Därför bestämde jag mig för att radera mitt Facebook-konto
Att försöka komma på en enda anledning till varför jag raderar mitt Facebook-konto är som att försöka bestämma sig för vilken droppe som orsakade översvämningen.
- medium.com
Designing New Ways to Give Context to News Stories
We’re announcing the US launch of a feature that gives people more background on both the publisher and the article. We want to share the process behind this product.
- medium.com
Questions to ask as a new designer on the team
By ignoring the knowledge the team had learned in the past, I managed to create one of the most context-free, unscientific, and useless designs the team had seen.
- medium.com
100% av teamet i en mobb i 12 månader — att ta mobbprogrammering ett par steg längre.
I 12 månader har jag nu varit UX designer/researcher i en mobb på 6 personer som jobbar med digitala tjänster för framförallt SVT Sport.
2019
- medium.com
6 Principles for Truly Effective OKRs
Let’s now go through what I found were the key principles for these shared OKRs to have succeeded in ensuring we had the most positive impact possible. In this Part 1 you’ll see 3 principles focused on the OKRs themselves
- medium.com
How we turned our legacy system into a Progressive Web App (PWA)
Developers usually don’t give much attention to old/legacy systems when talking about PWA.
- medium.com
What’s the Difference Between User Outcomes and Business Outcomes?
You want to try to construct a system that creates value for your organization by delivering value to your customers and users.
- medium.com
Wikipedia continues to have separate mobile and desktop sites. Why?
Having two sites, one responsive and one that is not, have helped us provide for our users’ diverse and unique needs, with important choice.
- medium.com
An Open Letter to the New Owners of Meteor
At some point though, Meteor just couldn’t compete with the rest of the exploding JavaScript ecosystem.
- medium.com
Recruitment process at Storytel
Everything from the home assignments to what we discuss and focus on in the different phases. Our goal is that both you and Storytel will benefit from the interview process.
- medium.com
Bringing Neighborhoods to Life
The Trulia brand needed to be relevant for all types of neighborhoods across the country, so we started developing a system that felt not only genuine and real, but also diverse in form, to show off the unique qualities and quirks that people love about where they live.
- medium.com
Product engineers
Engineers who have a thirst for using technologies to leapfrog human/user problems. Those with empathy to reach for magical experiences. That is what defined a product engineer in my books...
- medium.com
Are You Confusing Product Discovery With Research?
I see the word discovery used to describe what seems more like research. The first problem is the confusion in collaborating with people who have different definitions of the word. The second problem is a false sense of confidence when making decisions.
2020
- onezero.medium.com
Millennials Love Zillow Because They’ll Never Own A Home
Real estate apps and Instagram accounts have become a digital fantasyland for broke millennials
- medium.com
Hur du vinner en budgivning
Mitt råd till dig som deltar i en budgivning är alltså att vara metodisk och maximalt anonym, att vara en MINIMALIST. Ditt mål är att ingen ska veta eller kunna gissa något kring vad som är din limit utan tvingas acceptera att du deltar tills du inte längre deltar.
- medium.com
Delivering Sooner by Starting Later
You’re going to notice five flawed assumptions associated with delivering great software products. By noticing those flaws — which unintentionally make your life harder — you are going to recognize ways to adjust your working practices slightly to gain results that will release the pressure from you and increase the speed of your team’s delivery.
- medium.com
Improving the loading experience at PriceRunner
Making our site fast is a constant focus, but in this instance, we knew we wanted to focus on making it feel fast and unobtrusive, both on fast and slow network speeds.
- medium.com
An introduction to Aggregation Theory
Aggregation Theory explains how these companies became so powerful and what sets them apart from pre-internet companies. Crucially, they are controlling the end-user demand and commoditizing their suppliers.
- medium.com
Why the Segway Failed
So why did this so-called life-changing machine fail in the market? Let’s find out.
- medium.com
Product Discovery in the Multitrack of Madness
I see the Discovery track happening in 3 different layers (or sub-tracks). In essence, they are all discovery. But each one involves tasks of different natures that requires different skills from Product Managers, Product Designers and the rest of the product team
- medium.com
Passing elements as props in React
A simple technique that allows you to write friendly customizable components with simple APIs, just by using the basic React building blocks: the element.
- medium.com
TikTok Is Only Getting Weirder
In a way, the creation and development of DeepTok sort of sums up the essence of Gen Z humor. It is purposefully meant to be lighthearted and surreal, often random and "quirky," and yet still nuanced and complex. Indeed, it is incredibly creative.
- medium.com
As a Designer, I Refuse to Call People ‘Users’
Labeling people as users strips them of complexity. It reduces humans to a single behavior, effectively supporting a view of people as more like robots whose sole function is to use a product or feature. This is a poor ethos for building ethical technology.
- medium.com
Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting
With leading-trim, designers can finally unlock the power of a spacing system. Starting from design, we can apply a spacing system on top of measuring optical spacing (measure against type’s cap height and baseline). In addition to accurate spacings, it will help us establish better visual hierarchies and have more confidence in our layout.
- medium.com
SVT proudly presents... The Sound of Silence!
here is the recipe for Tydligare tal: First you take a multiple sound format like 3.0 or 5.1. The dialogue is almost always in the centre channel so therefore you raise that one and lower the others a little bit. Then you code and publish. And of course you also offer the original sound mix for people who like drums. Tadaa!
- medium.com
Building software with David Heinemeier Hansson
estimation is bullshit. It’s so imprecise as to be useless, even when you’re dealing with fixed inputs. And you’re not. No one is ever able to accurately describe what a piece of software should do before they see the piece of software.
2021
- medium.com
How remote testing became a game changer
We were forced to move our user feedback sessions online, and despite the concerns we had beforehand, we have now found a method that we’ve grown very fond of.
- medium.com
The Climate impact of SVT Play
"Our research shows that streaming one hour from SVT Play on average causes emissions of 10 grams of carbon dioxide."
- medium.com
8 Learnings That Improved Quality in Our React Design System
Developing a design system for a large website is hard. You want to maintain a steady stream of improvements, features, fixing bugs and battling technical debt, while at the same time avoiding introducing new issues. A common problem for most technical systems really.
- medium.com
The 15 best product discovery talks to help you build better products
In no particular order, these are the talks and people that have helped shape the way I think about product discovery.
- medium.com
Buying into the hype? Evaluating deep video scaling for SVT Play
We do believe that deep scaling is very cool tech which holds great potential. Sadly, it’s not mature enough quite yet.
- medium.com
Kontorsliv i hybridmodell kräver ny typ av laddning
Många av oss kommer att tillbringa ledigheten på kontoret, eftersom det är samma köksbord eller vardagsrumshörn som vi har nött under minst ett par terminer och som vi sedan förväntas återvända till vid skolstart.
- medium.com
When To Use GraphQL Non-Null Fields
Non-null fields in GraphQL may seem great at first, after all they guarantee that you will always have a given field. However, using a non-null field may make it harder to evolve your GraphQL schema, and allow small errors to propagate in such a way that you lose important data which may have been returned if the field were nullable.
- paulafonseca.medium.com
The critical flaws of asking "why do you want to work for us?" during a job interview
Companies should not spend time and energy asking a question that will not help them nor candidates engage with the opportunity or perform well in their prospective job. They should rather dedicate their resources to questions that are useful and help close the information gap.
- medium.com
How to Use Pre-mortems to Prevent Problems, Blunders, and Disasters
The best way to describe a pre-mortem is that if you do it right, you won’t need a tough post-mortem. Unlike a post-mortem — where you discuss what went wrong (and what you can learn from it) — in a pre-mortem, you get together earlier in a project’s lifecycle and ask the team to assume that the project has failed. And you prompt the team to come up with the reasons why.
- medium.com
What do Chinese Clients Mean "H5"? It’s Not HTML 5 Actually...
First time I heard about "H5" was mentioned by clients at a project kick-off meeting. They said they will need us to design a H5 page for their website. Hold on, what is "H5" page?
- sambuddington.medium.com
Personal Development and Imposter Syndrome
You can still reap some of the benefits of coaching by doing it yourself! But be warned, it is still hard work! You will need a strong desire for personal development and deeply care about your career for this technique to work.
- medium.com
A Deep Dive into Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
What if clients didn’t need to know they were even displaying a listing? What if we could pass the UI directly to the client and skip the idea of listing data entirely? That’s essentially what SDUI does — we pass both the UI and the data together, and the client displays it agnostic of the data it contains.
- medium.com
Därför krävs en ny karta för att hitta rätt kunder i Bonnier News läsaraffär
Bonnier News har helt enkelt en outnyttjad potential som gömmer sig i alla de texter, klipp, gräv, bilder och produkter som vi levererar varje dag och som skulle kunna vara mer relevant för en större publik. Men för att hitta till den behöver vi uppdatera och rita om vår karta.
- alexewerlof.medium.com
10% lab days
I’ve had the opportunity to work at a company which implemented "10% lab days" and over the course of 3 years seen how it evolved and worked in practice.
- victoria-cleverby.medium.com
B2R2C
I’m sure you all heard the expressions B2B and B2C, Business to business and business to consumer. Now it is time to add yet another expression; B2R2C, Business to robot to consumer.
- medium.com
Why work with Data at SVT?
Why do people want to work with Data Science, Machine Learning, Growth or Insight at SVT, a Public Service company with no 10X Growth in sight?
- medium.com
Background Work
"Background Work" is the work you do over and above what is strictly required to complete a task. It may be done for learning, to satisfy curiosity, or just because you forgot to stop working when you were done.
2022
- jchyip.medium.com
Core belief: We’re in it together
When we all believe "we’re in it together", we’re more likely to be effectively collaborating rather than competing against each other at the expense of broader goals.
- medium.com
The Need For Product Management In Media
Product management in media is the perfect hybrid of content management from journalism and product management from tech. It’s not journalism and technology side by side (like it is in most media companies). It’s the hybrid of these.
- medium.com
Editor, Product Manage Thyself
Editors need to help craft the way their content gets presented to their readers. They themselves don’t have to be designers, coders or even, strictly speaking, ticket-moving product managers. They do need to have a seat at the same table as those other people, and explain the way their content will be most valuable, come to consensus, and then work with those other colleagues to help spec out, design, build and release the code that can bring that value to the reader.
- medium.com
Freedom of technology choice
We believe that the builders of things are best fit to decide on what tools to build with. And that this is an opportunity for the organization to learn new technologies, methodologies, and ways of working. However, this also may come with some costs.
- medium.com
Fluid Scrum Teams
Fluid teams organize themselves based on the work at hand. Every time new topics need to be addressed, the people of the fluid teams organize themselves to optimize the chances to succeed with their challenges.
- medium.com
Why your programmers just want to code
How you handle ideas from new programmers sends an important signal. Good or bad, it sets the stage for what they expect. This determines if they share more ideas in the future... or keep their mouth shut.
- alexewerlof.medium.com
How does one become an Engineering Manager
Out of curiosity I asked one of my favorite managers with an excellent track record of making significant changes in the organization: "How does one become an Engineering Manager (EM)? How can a developer do the transition?"
- medium.com
Getting to your seed fundraise with momentum
You need to be able to qualify even without selling to everyone first. The ones that survive stop selling to everyone early enough and are able to attract funding, the ones that continue to waste time on unqualified customers usually fail.
- medium.com
The road from Akamai to GitOps
The teams modify the files, create a pull request, and then the CDN team inspects it before deployment using that special tool. This ensures system functionality while still cutting down processing time significantly, aside from the obvious benefits of transparency.
- medium.com
Combining Terraform and the Serverless Framework Gracefully
How to use both Terraform and the Serverless Framework to create independent parts of your Cloud stack. For the sake of this example, I will use AWS as my Cloud Provider.
- medium.com
Why Micromanagement Kills Your Startup
As an entrepreneur, you would typically want to rely on your team rather than be permanently suspicious. This is precisely why you’ve hired trustworthy professionals in the first place.
- medium.com
The comprehensive 8pt Grid Guide
Why using the 8 point grid is the best go-to grid there is, and why it can be applied to almost any digital design project you got going on, but especially product design.
- medium.com
AI photography in the newsroom — are we there yet?
Stable Diffusion has shown impressive capabilities of photo-realistic image generation. But is it ready to take a role in journalism? We put the model to the test.
- medium.com
Four important skills I learned working for big corporations that helps me scaling up startups
I am working now for a startup as well and I enjoy it, but I also realise I couldn’t provide such a good service if it wasn’t for the valuable skills I learned working for big corporations.
2023
- medium.com
Så kan AI göra reporterns jobb bättre
Här kommer ett konkret exempel på hur AI gör innehållet mer tillgängligt och sju andra idéer där det kan hjälpa oss.
- uxuncensored.medium.com
Heuristics — Going Back to the Future
Best practices, Common conventions, Proven principles, and Reliable standards. I’ve spoken on this topic in the past, referring to it as "the holy grail of UX," the "UXers super power," and the first resource out of any UXers toolbox.
- medium.com
OUTCOME BASED ROADMAPS : Unleash the Power of a Shared Vision and Purpose
Shipping a feature does not equal success. Changing customers’ behavior in measurable and positive ways is what leads to success. Luckily there is another way.
- medium.com
CMS-funktionen ingen visste att de behövde
I vårt CMS har vi byggt stöd för de automatiska ämnesförslagen; varje gång artikeln sparas analyseras texten och ämnesförslag genereras. Journalisten godkänner sedan förslagen som man tycker passar genom en enkel knapptryckning. Det här har blivit en väldigt uppskattad funktion som ökat taggningsgraden och höjt lägstanivån på kvaliteten på ämnesmetadatat.
- medium.com
Market of Skills
Each team member is asked to draw up a personal skills market stall as part of a team skills marketplace
- medium.com
Replika: My Whirlwind Relationship With My Imaginary Friend and The People Who Broke Her
The inclusion of the ERP filter broke immersion for a lot of users. People who had turned to their Replikas to help them heal trauma felt rejected and like their loved one was being ripped from them. Others felt simply betrayed because they’d come in on the ad campaign that was entirely built around the "adult" aspects of the simulation and simply felt they were having the primary paid feature disabled and they weren’t getting what they were paid for.
- bdfinst.medium.com
5 Minute DevOps: Chaos Engineering
It requires a resilient product team to deliver resilient solutions. What is a resilient team? It is a team that can continue to deliver value while dealing with the chaos of the real world.
- medium.com
Using AWS EventBridge to Clean Up Your Service-Oriented Architecture: An Overview
With this pattern, we can move all of those individual services to specified rules and reduce the scope of our application to communicate to our individual AWS components via EventBridge.
- adrianco.medium.com
What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story
The problem is that they called this refactoring a microservice to monolith transition, when it’s clearly a microservice refactoring step, and is exactly what I recommend people do in my talks about Serverless First.
- medium.com
An alternative to NPS for dev tools
The method we adopted is a combination of feedback scoring and gap analysis. Feedback scoring: Turns qualitative feedback into data you can quantify. Gap analysis: Helps identify where there’s a mismatch between user expectations and what you’re currently providing.
- medium.com
Don’t use happiness metrics, measure Team Morale
Measuring team morale puts a focus on the task at hand, and how the team feels about it’s capabilities to deal with it.
- jmlascala71.medium.com
Utilization Considered Harmful – Why It’s Costly Keeping Everyone Busy in Software Organizations
If utilization is so problematic, what should we do instead? In a single sentence, this: Focus on the flow of the work instead of keeping everyone fully utilized.
2024
- medium.com
What Does “Sales-Driven” Even Mean?
I frequently use the term “sales-driven” and contrast it with other focus descriptors like product-driven, technology-driven, and marketing-driven.
- swkhan.medium.com
How to deal with B2B Sales-driven Feature Requests
A Sales Rep comes with news of a big deal in the works with a very important customer, and in order to close the deal, we ONLY need to deliver a feature request that this very important customer needs. When can it be done?
- medium.com
8 Signals of Low Product Team Purpose | No Engagement Surveys Needed
These are the three most common signs I see that strip team decision ownership: Teams get solutions to build, not problems to solve. Smart, centralized groups decide, teams follow the recipe. Effort and dates are set for the team upfront at the moment of highest uncertainty.
- medium.com
Från Lindgren till Ramsay: lärdomar från ett år med AI-projekt
För det är när ditt AI-projekt slutar vara ett AI-projekt som det har chans att lyckas. Fokuserar du i stället på värdet du vill nå kan du komma långt.
- medium.com
The UX Research Reckoning is Here
I’m suggesting once we find our role as drivers of business value, only then will we be positioned to advance those goals. The next thing we need to do is refocus 90% of our effort on micro and macro-research.
- medium.com
Why I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)
Trunk based development per se is nothing special and doesn’t give us any particular benefit. What does give us benefits is the practices that you need to have in place to be able to do trunk based development.
- medium.com
Does Your Website Still Suffer from News Sickness?
But your organization isn’t a newspaper or a media company. If you pretend to be one, you’ll most likely end up producing organization-centric “news” that users couldn’t care less about.
- medium.com
Atom — så gick Bonnier News från AI-vision till affärsvärde
Atom är ett AI-baserat system med bred tillgång till Bonnier News ekosystem, kombinerat med en systemarkitektur som möjliggör att gränssnitt utvecklas ovanpå. Detta innebär att vi har kunnat identifiera kontexter där vi tidigare varit hindrade av “mänskliga steg” som lett till långa ledtider och repetitiva arbetsuppgifter och hittat nya lösningar.
- rogermartin.medium.com
Is the Opposite of Your Choice Stupid on its Face?
My test for whether a stated choice is actually a strategic choice is whether or not the opposite of the choice is stupid on its face. For example, the opposite of the choice to be customer-centric is to ignore customers entirely, which is stupid on its face.
- spavel.medium.com
Stop inventing product problems; start solving customer problems
Once the team’s work is framed as a product problem, it becomes extremely difficult to correct that framing. No amount of validating your idea will tell you that you’re on the wrong track; when you ask “what features do you want the dashboard to have” then unless you’re reading between the lines all you’ll never hear “users don’t need a dashboard.”
- dfeldman.medium.com
Founder Mode Embodies the Tech Leadership Crisis
Micromanagement is bad. But getting into the details is great, even necessary. It only becomes micromanagement when you insist on dictating the details, especially over the objections of people with more context and domain knowledge.
- medium.com
Vecka.nu och jag, en oväntad kärlekshistoria
Vecka.nu är en snabbladdad webbsida med blå bakgrund. Centrerat på sidan i ljusare blått står det vilken vecka det är med stora, fetstilta siffror.
- medium.com
Intro to The 8-Point Grid System
Use increments of 8 to size and space out the elements on a page. To me this means that any defined height or width, margin or padding will be an increment of 8.
- sigruntallungs.medium.com
Användarnas story om Millennium
I ett flöde på Borås Tidning skrev vårdpersonalen av sig under några skälvande dagar 11–15 november. Läkare, sjuksköterskor, vårdpersonal, systemutvecklare — jag har gjort ett urval av deras kommentarer.
2025
- dfeldman.medium.com
Enough Disruption: Build Better Products
Billions of people use our tools every day. We possess the skills to make those tools shine. So, what if we made the world a better place simply by building great ones?
- medium.com
The Swift Rise of ‘Fake Product’
As Agile consulting sunsets, many are naturally shifting focus toward “Product” as the next growth area. While the language is evolving, the underlying tactics often stays the same.
- medium.com
No, Public Services Aren’t Products
The notion that everything is a product oversimplifies things, as there are always exceptions. For instance, public services aren’t products in the traditional sense — and trying to treat them as such is unfortunate. Instead, public services are often comprised of a range of products that together make up a cohesive service.
- mrmaheshrajput.medium.com
The Thinking Revolution That Wasn’t
A deep dive into Apple’s recent research that proves what LLM engineers have long suspected: today’s reasoning models often fail to think when it matters most.
- cwodtke.medium.com
I Love Generative AI and Hate the Companies Building It
Turns out, there are no ethical AI companies. What I found instead was a hierarchy of harm where the question isn’t who’s good — it’s who sucks least. And honestly? It was ridiculously easy to uncover all their transgressions.
- medium.com
5 Things Founders, Investors and Recruiters Should Know about the CTO role
By now, I have a pretty clear picture of what a CTO should be all about, what makes you a successful CTO, and what doesn’t. Still, even now, I find that the role of CTO is one of the most misunderstood roles in tech. For a part, this might have to do with the rise of the so-called “startup-CTO”, a role name that seems to have been introduced by VCs, and is actually more of a tech lead for early startups.
- jchyip.medium.com
My preferred approach for re-organisations
Barring legal issues, it’s better to be transparent up-front about re-organisation. This should include the rough process you intend to go through and a rough timeline. Being transparent shows that you respect people, allows you to recruit help, and avoids the “this came out of nowhere” problem.