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Being a product owner can be overwhelming - like you’re trying to juggle lots of things at once.
📈 Between defining the product scope working with cross-functional teams and understanding when something is your number one priority and all focus should be on that
✅ In this list of never-ending tasks, the key one is the ability to manage project risks
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“Who” by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
One of the biggest mistakes made in business isn’t in marketing, product, or execution— it’s in hiring
Hiring the best employees to be on your staff can make all the difference in your business success. That’s why “Who” is one of the best startup books out there 🤩
“Who” covers simple steps that anyone can put into place to improve hiring
This book teaches you how to ensure you’re hiring the right person for the job, no matter if that’s a new CEO, a front desk manager, or a marketing specialist
👉 Discover the book
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😩 Some days, work just sucks away your energy. No matter how hard you try, you can’t move as fast as you want to
And while we are quick to blame all sorts of things for this — Did you get enough sleep, are you drinking enough water, have you found a job that satisfies your purpose? — The simple truth is that your lousy productivity might not be your fault. The culprit could be your software
Read experts from interview with Forrester analyst Andrew Hogan on how enterprises should improve their UX and software
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If you’re a growing company that’s not ready for a full-time CTO, you can try CTO-as-a-Service or technology consulting. Here are some advantages of hiring a virtual CTO 😎
✅ Text @cxdojo_inc to book a free consultation
#bookoftheweek
💡 IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.
Undisputed winner in our weekly reading section!
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🚀 Want something new?
Today we launch our new series - 10 questions to ask!
In the first episode, we ask 10 questions to an IT Sales Manager
So, meet Leonid, Biz Dev at CXDojo, who will clear things up in our new video
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More videos are already in production! Stay tuned!
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What's the difference between PoC, prototype, and MVP?
Imagine building a house without referring to a layout design. It would be pretty challenging, right?
Diving into the development process without defining the requirements is just as tricky
👨💻 PoC ➡️ prototype ➡️ MVP are three concepts that often can be confused. But make things clear
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📩 You've Got Mail!
Here’s an animation that adds a visual cue that notifies the user about what’s going on in the app. It indicates that the user has just received a message, showing a blue envelope.
👉 Check it out a Dribbble in motion
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🔥 3 news, 1 tip and an awesome mood for the rest of your day! That’s what you get in our new weekly digest!
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🤠 CTO is short for Chief Technology Officer, or, in other words, a person who wears a lot of hats in the company
The chief executive officer role has been around for decades. However, the job of CTO in 2021 is not the same as it was in 2010. The CTO’s primary concerns in 2010 were backups, desk support, and managing IT infrastructure. Nowadays, it’s a more strategic role: building a roadmap, guiding the team, and communicating the technology vision across the company
Peter Shankar, Chief Technology Officer at Equity Multiple, joins the Product Drama podcast to share his story and experience of what it takes to be a tech c-level executive in a real estate investing company
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🌚 Come to the dark side
👉 Check out a Dribbble shot with a dark mode version of a lifestyle app
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🤩 When you hear the phrase "delightful UX", what comes to mind? Illustrations of cute mascots or aesthetically pleasing designs?
Delight has been stereotyped to superficial UI elements, and while it incorporates these, in part, it also includes several attributes not typically thought of as delightful
🙌 In this article, learn what's user delight, the two types of delight and whether delight is worthy of pursuit
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🎯 A great user experience goes far beyond aesthetics. If you want to start designing products that serve your customers, build loyalty, and increase conversions, you need to start with effective user research
👨🏽🎨 In this article, learn three simple tips and tools to help you test the effectiveness of your designs and optimize your designs accordingly
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🎯 UX research is one of the fastest-changing functions in tech. Staying on top of best practice and emerging trends is the best way to catch a trip on this rising tide
In this post, explore 7 ‘not so obvious’ trends catalysing change in the industry of UX research in 2021
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What's the anatomy of a perfect unit test? 🧐
Let's unpack this a bit. A suite of quality unit tests allows you to refactor code without breaking things and adding features without creating new bugs.
A good unit test is:
🔹 Simple - it's easy to read and understand
🔹 Isolated - it's independent of test cases
🔹 Fast - it only takes a few seconds to run it
🔹 Well-structured - each developer reading another developer's code should see what each unit test is doing
🔹 Reliable - a unit test must be failure-free no matter how many times you run it
It's worth noting that unit tests are written by developers who have a deep understanding of the inner workings of system functionality. So if the test fails, the reason might be the required changes or implementation problems
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⏳ How to make the waiting process less boring and keep users entertained?
The answer is #animation
👉 Check it out on our Dribbble
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This blog post will explain the difference between PoC 🆚 prototype 🆚 MVP and how to test the assumptions with the minimum set of features.
We'll go through each approach in detail and show how the process looks like in practice
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🤔 Are you considering moving your IT systems to the Cloud?
Here’s a checklist that will help you successfully perform it:
☁️ Train staff on cloud migration essentials (if needed)
☁️ Identify the existing issues and design solutions for them
☁️ Consider potential security risks
☁️ Confirm that you’ll maintain compliance
☁️ Project the costs of your cloud migration
☁️ Design the optimal cloud infrastructure
👉 Continue reading the article to get more tips
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☺️ Here’s a small and lovely feedback animation if a user places an order
Let us know what you think!
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🔸 How do we build and establish a successful, bulletproof design system?
🔸 What’s the state of HTML Email?
🔸 What are new, smart interface design patterns we could use?
Let’s find out 🤔
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🤗 One of the main CX metrics is the Net Promoter Score (NPS). It helps to identify the willingness of customers to recommend your product to others
NPS is usually measured with a single question:
❓On a scale from 0 to 10, how are you likely to recommend company/brand/product X to a friend/colleague/relative❓
Accordingly, 0 is not at all likely, and 10, extremely likely
Want to learn more about customer satisfaction metrics? - Welcome to our blog!
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👨🎨 Principles of design give designers a set of guidelines for how to design visually appealing compositions that create wonderful user experiences
By following basic principles of design like hierarchy, balance, unity, and variety, you can create digital products and graphic designs that people ❤️ to use.
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#bookoftheweek
The “white space” is one of those business growth terms that represent the right way to approach business development; it’s filled by all those product and service opportunities made by unmet customer needs that lie outside of your current core business — opportunities for growth!
Mark W. Johnson teaches you how to find that white space, and then lays out a 4-block business model for venturing into it:
📌 profit formula;
📌 key resources and processes;
📌 core metrics, rules and norms;
📌 customer value proposition.
This book provides a blueprint for how you can enter that space and turn a profit
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A business requires two things:
Something to sell 🔄 Someone to buy it
But how to get someone to buy what you're selling?
✅ The short answer is product strategy
An effective product strategy is an intersection of three main components:
🔸 The market needs - the target audience that's going to use your product
🔸 Key features - up to five essential features that will make people want to use your product
🔸 Business goals - how the product is going to benefit your company
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📈 How to grow from an idea stage to a product that people appreciate and love to use?
🎯 The road to achieving a product-market fit starts with understanding PoC, prototype, and MVP
🙌 This blog post will explain the difference between these three approaches, and how one can test the assumptions with the minimum set of features
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In this book, the author Simon Sinek illustrates that successful businesses start from the ‘why’
🤔 He argues that everyone knows ‘what they do but not the ‘why’ and that this is one of the main differences between a successful business, and one that is not
🕵️ He discusses the importance of ‘why’ you do something, which can be tied back to the importance of designing for aesthetics and solving the actual problem and focusing on the purpose. Not the ‘how’ or ‘what.’ But the ‘why’
This week's book pick is "Start with Why" by Simon Sinek!
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It's Product Drama Podcast time. In this episode, we talk about:
🔸 How to write a pitch so that your grandmom gets what does your product solve?
🔸 What is BrandBucket, and how can it help early-stage startups?
🔸 How can credit unions get in on the fintech phenomenon?
🔸 What do credit unions and wineries have in common?
🎧 Make your evening valuable — Check it out right now
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A quick tip on how to estimate user stories 💡
The development team usually estimates the user story in story points
Each user story is prioritized according to:
✔️ Business needs (the customer always sets priorities)
✔️ The project logic model (backlog prioritization is a collaborative process between the development team and the business)
Find the rest in our weekly CXDojo blog!
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🤔 How to automate the significant but repetitive tasks in the product development lifecycle and speed up product entry to the market?
Well, here’s an answer!
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