Weekly Roundup - Issue #4
Long weekends are hazardous to newsletter updates. They are very good for catching up on your physical book reading though. I got the time to finish three books; The Wall, Magic Kingdom for Sale and Transformations: Understanding world history through science fiction.
Anyway’s here’s this week’s roundup ✨
This is a great reference article if you are looking to extend your product beyond the original target market. What I liked about this article is that it helps me to explain the work that I do in my current job in academic terms. What it doesn’t talk about is about how you could prepare and organize your designs for new markets. That’s one of the posts in my Medium drafts that will someday(🤞🏽) see the light of day.
Katie Dill is one of my design role models. It’s quite incredible to follow someone who’s been at Airbnb, Lyft and now Stripe. In this post, she offers her opinion on how a good PM + Designer partnership should be.
The team at Prophecy.one released this product design cheatsheet last week and we will definitely see it being printed out and framed on walls in the future.
Tejas and Tanya talk about how they went about choosing typefaces for Fiftytwo.in. It gives you an insig
Tejas and Tanya talk about how they went about choosing typefaces for Fiftytwo.in. It gives you an insight into what goes into choosing typefaces for a project.
Aside: Puppies and Labels are two of my favourite reads from FiftyTwo.
And finally..
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A screenshot from Sprint |
While trying to organize a workshop at work, I came across this section on how to involve the key decision makers during the ‘decide’ phase of the Sprint. I’ve seen Sprints often end up being a waste of time, but this paragraph offered me something to try out for our workshop.
If you assume that in your workshop everyone is equal, then you are wrong. Everyone has a role and even though you may want them to be equal within the workshop, you need to remember that their roles will get restored once they are outside the workshop.
So you need to give the Decider special privileges within the workshop. That is one of the ways to guarantee the success of the workshop’s outcome.