Mindy Nies

Advocate for the user, champion of great design. Boldly colors outside the lines. Innovator, rebel, + product design executive. Fractional CXO.

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

@DanielleMorrill And skip creating a native app. It’s too costly during the MVP stage.

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

@DanielleMorrill Responsive web is the correct term for web applications that have 2+ breakpoints and any designer or dev that says you only ever need one form factor is likely wrong unless your future customer/users truly will need only desktop or only mobile. Also, start with mobile first.

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

🤣 @ouraring you totally made me about lose my damn mind seeing the Oura-Clippy this morning! Ha! April Fools! You got me! Well played.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Product managers jumping into the Figma file to add comments for the designers

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

@hemeon I think Idyllwild also has a summer camp. Tufts in MA has a summer program for high school students interested in the arts.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

You're going to die someday.

Sorry.

Here are the 7 most common end-of-life regrets (you can avoid after reading this):

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

@cocktailcourier Your code only worked on one of my orders, so I still paid full price for 2 of my orders and combined shipping of $25. :(

[Matt Schnuck @mattschnuck]

A famous experiment exposed the No. 1 killer of high-performing teams.

Here it is (and how you overcome it):

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

Major props to @WarbyParker UX team for making it super easy for me to reorder a pair of glasses via chat, that I literally wore 1X before I lost them. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

@zachnies this is why you should buy your dream ride today instead of 10 years from now. 🤣

[Mindy Nies @mnies]

Product/Design mostly focus on value creation initiatives. CTO/CIOs almost always focus on cost containment. If Engineering isn’t aligned with creating the best experiences for the customers, then often these 2 orgs are at odds.

[Andy Budd @andybudd]

In most tech focussed companies, the size of the engineering team will massively outweigh research, design and product management.

These teams are under a huge pressure to deliver so CTO are focussed on creating the conditions for this to happen.

[Dan Rose @DanRose999]

The best tech companies drive strategy through product. This is why founders and CEOs tend to be product leaders, and product / design / engineering is more important than ops / marketing / finance. Here’s what this looked like for me as a business leader at Amzn and Facebook:

[Andy Budd @andybudd]

Discord is what would happen if you asked a bunch of engineers and product managers to build Slack.

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

We could end the teacher shortage tomorrow if we just paid teachers what they are worth and let them teach.

[Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social @AngieMaxwell1]

Two weeks ago, I had four precious 12-year-old girls, including my daughter, with me at the county fair. They were getting blue Icees and corndogs for the walk to the car and ride home. (1/21)

[Joe Natoli @joenatoli]

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I will be 54 this year. I have helped product design and development teams and individuals in startups, mid sized orgs and global Fortune 100 orgs in 23 U.S. states and six countries in almost every industry you can think of for thirty (30) years.

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[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.