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eleganthack.com

Your resolution isn’t the problem; your measurement is

It’s January, and millions of people have made the same resolution: “Eat better.” By February, most will have abandoned it.

seangoedecke.com

You can’t design software you don’t work on

Generic software design advice is typically useless for most practical software design problems.

seangoedecke.com

Nobody knows how large software products work

Sometimes there are zero people at the organization who can answer complex questions about how the product works.

uxdesign.cc

A product manager’s 48 reflections on 2025

The year when AI stopped feeling like just a tool and started to feel more like a mirror.

figma.com

Hard problems are still hard

Figma designer–turned–product manager Nikolas Klein worked on building prototyping tools for seven years. Then AI changed the game.

smashingmagazine.com

How to measure the impact of features

A simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features.

figma.com

Prototypes are the new PRDs

Inside Figma Make, product managers are pressure-testing assumptions early, building momentum, and rallying teams around something tangible.

thorsell.io

Estimates: a necessary evil?

Estimates come in various disguises, but when you peek under the trench coat there is always the same old question.

yannglt.com

The Rosetta stone of design engineering

How design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning—and why a shared language is the only way to build real shipping velocity.

trevorlasn.com

Good enough is a strategy

Your competitors will eat your lunch while you refactor.

uxdesign.cc

Let designers think

How “Thinking” + “Designing” need to be practiced outside AI.

waspdev.com

Some software bloat is OK

The software efficiency in an era of fast CPUs, gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of storage.

frederickvanbrabant.com

Architectural debt is not just technical debt

Code debt are the hacks you put in place to reach a deadline; architectural debt are the decisions that come back to bite you six months later.

scope-creep.xyz

Scope creep: the game

A chilling tale of deliverables, deadlines and doomed decisions.

daverupert.com

Why I hate the MVP car

Despite taking the time to get the context and being a lover of iteration, I think I have built up petty grievances over the years with the MVP car.

academy.openai.com

ChatGPT for product

A prompt pack covering competitive research, strategy, UX design, content creation, and data analysis.

longform.asmartbear.com

Your target market isn’t demographic

How to define your actual target market, which probably isn’t traditional demographics and firmographics.

svpg.com

Product leadership archetypes

The 3 different archetypes of product leaders: the craftsperson, the operator, and the visionary.

jola.dev

Estimates are more valuable than you think

Good estimation isn’t about control or tracking every minute of your day. It’s about creating trust and transparency in your team.

ashmann.co

The illusion of alignment

How cultural norms like politeness, power imbalance, and rushed decision-making lead to fragile consensus in projects.