UI/UX Articles and Interesting Tidbits of the Week
December//6//2024
Here are some interesting finds on UI/UX of the past two weeks!
Following a brief break.
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PMs Mastering Product Discovery. This article from Dovetail’s blog and author Liam Scanlon is first and foremost a great booster and promotion for Dovetail itself. As someone who has used the tool, I will attest to its effectiveness and what the author describes in the points that are listed. That includes aspects such as Solving the Right Customer Problems, Getting Into Insights Faster, Winning Over Stakeholders, to name but a few. It essentially is a fundamental resource which leverages all research findings, making that much more actionable for all professionals involved in the Product Design journey. Worth reading through, even if the focal point is its applicability to Product Owners. Highlight of the article includes:
“As a product manager, you’re the ultimate storyteller — translating customer needs into actionable roadmaps, aligning teams, and delivering products that users love. But in the whirlwind of competing priorities, making confident decisions can feel like a constant challenge.”
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Looking at a Design System Product Manager. This is a great article from the Adobe Design Blog, focusing on a conversation with Veda Rosier, who is a Design System Product Manager for Adobe’s Spectrum (their design system). The Design System topic is one that never ceases to be of interest, since it is after all the baseline language that is established for an organization, something that gains even more relevance for organizations with the maturity and diversity of product offerings such as Adobe. Veda mentions various aspects of her work routine, including the tools she leverages to achieve her desired outputs, including Jira, Apple Notes, and the inevitable (at least for now), Figma. Worth reading through. Highlight of the article includes:
“Since Adobe’s products are constantly evolving, we’re always gathering requirements around any new or extended use cases so we can determine how to meet those needs. My role involves identifying and prioritizing requirements, making strategic decisions, and overseeing the product lifecycle from conception to launch and beyond. To source the data we need to generate our high-level roadmaps, so a big part of my job involves talking to people who work on teams across Adobe’s business units (Express, Creative Cloud, Document Cloud).”
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E-mail List Hygiene. This article from Andrian Valeanu is a thorough and extensive analysis of what is indeed to practice an effective e-mail listing, and the attention and care that should be devoted to it, as it impacts so much of the effectiveness of email send-outs. E-mail list hygiene is defined as “…a set of practices and steps to maintain the high-quality content of the contacts database”, and the article lists quite a few including Blacklisted Email Addresses, Duplicated Email Accounts, Abandoned, Deactivated, or Deleted Emails, Unsubscribed Emails. It also describes the importance of having a good hygiene for these lists, as well as it identifies the warning signs that the list needs to be cleaned up. It’s a fascinating read. Highlight of the article includes:
“Invalid email addresses are the ones that have errors. They do not match any existing email account and, therefore, do not exist. As people are prone to mistakes, these contacts regularly appear on mailing lists, clogging them with incorrect data and damaging email list hygiene. They generate hard bounces that hurt the sender’s reputation, ruin the deliverability rate, and waste precious resources.”
