Cross-Functional #184: Is the product downturn turning around?
Lots of product jobs were cut last year across the board from product management, research, design and development. Luckily there appears to be signs that the economy had a soft landing and hiring is starting to come back....
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Enabling the Team
When You Have to Make a Strategic Decision Without Much Data ? by Scott D. Anthony Scott shares three techniques to develop insights: customer insights, new technologies, and connecting two seemingly disparate concepts.
How We're Turning The Company We We Bought into a Force for Good ? by Pim de Morree ree Krisos is a PE company that buys companies and installs flat hierarchies and empowered teams. They share the results of one turnaround.
Product Direction
Overproduction In The Product Lifecycle ? by Elizabeth Ayer When exactly software is most vulnerable to overproduction and what can keep it in check.
Selecting The Right Product Metrics (KPIs) ?by Jason Cohen A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
Continuous Discovery
AI + Design: Figma Survey by Andrew Hogan What do designers, developers, and executives think about the promise of AI? Figma's new survey aims to find out.
Designers: AI Needs Context ?by Paz Perez How UX teams should embrace data to shape AI models.
Continuous Design
90% of designers are unhirable? ?by Matej Latin in Matej turns down over 90% of the CV's he gets because of the linear process where everything progresses neatly from research to design to implementation.
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A Generation Of Design Leaders Grapple With Their Future ?by Robert Fabricant Many senior design leaders thought their roles and value were finally established. They now find themselves trying to communicate the value all over again
Continuous Delivery
Navigating The Future Of Frontend ? by Rem Rem looks at client versus server, distributed frontends and how the latest breed of frameworks tackle the same problems.
Observability Best Practices: How to Future-proof Your Software ? by Hayk Petrosyan Discover the power of observability in software development, bridging the gap between controlled environments and real-world scenarios.
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Design @ Google | Teaching Gen AI to designers | Speaker & writer
7 个月Thanks so much for the shoutout UXDX!
Head of Insights @ Figma | Design Industry Analysis
7 个月Thanks for highlighting the Figma study. So much design happening around AI products and features. The findings in a few points: - A wave of AI products and features is coming - However, just 1/3 who have shipped on AI product or feature are proud of what they've launched so far - One respondent told us: “It’s?hard?to?stay?on?top?of?the?wave?when?you’re?surfing?a?tsunami.?” - ?As the futurist Roy Amara put it: “People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies while underestimating their long-term effects. Interesting to see how it's all playing out.