product bits

bits of product management, ux design & development. just a big tech geek 🤓 but really, I’m @katemakrix - it’s nice to meet you

[product bits @productbits]

@epatt6 DM me!! Happy to help - @katemakrix

[Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe]

I think it’s clear to me now I would absolutely hate to climb the product manager career ladder. Sounds filled with immense bullshit. Being an entrepreneur may have actually been easier.

[Courtney D @OrigamiUx]

Ready for today

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

at my old job, engineers would sometimes have LOC in the negatives and that was a point of pride

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

How the top key features in enterprise SaaS have changed over time:

2005:

Custom Objects
Dashboards
Analytics

2010:

Custom Objects
Dashboards
Analytics

2015:

Custom Objects
Dashboards
Analytics

2020:

Custom Objects
Dashboards
Analytics

2022:

See Above

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The McNamara Fallacy (as coined by Yankelovich):
Step 1: Measure what can be easily measured
Step 2: Disregard that which cannot be measured easily
Step 3: Presume that which cannot be measured easily isn’t important
Step 4: Say that which can’t be easily measured doesn’t exist

[Julie Chabin @syswarren]

User research and user surveys shouldn't be handled by people trying to prove their point.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

3 takeaways from the latest Marty Cagan masterpiece, “Product Sense Demystified”

1. You don’t need industry experience:

“A disproportionate amount of innovation comes from people that don’t bring the baggage of the domain.”

[Kyle 🌱 @KylePlantEmoji]

I feel like a large number of the bugs I'm assigned can be described as "don't do that, why would you do that?"

"Bug: If user enters name longer than 524,288 characters, scroll bar becomes too small to see"

Well don't do that, why would you do that

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

When you ask users for an input, think about how they know what input to provide. No one except QA gets to put in "asdfasdf" and move on

Otherwise you get this user flow:
-User sees the form
-User goes digging in the file cabinet for the data
-Page times out, user loses all work

[Andy Budd @andybudd]

Every person on your team has an opinion…

Sales: People have told me they need x
Engineer: I like products that do y
Designer: I think users need z
Product: I believe doing a will increase b

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Incredible that we, as a society, have simply lost the battle to spam.

80% of the physical mail, phone calls, text messages, DMs, and friend requests I receive are either unwanted junk or scams trying to separate me from my money. Entire modes of communication made unusable.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

How it feels to scroll tech twitter

[Dr. Tech @doctechmd]

50 UI Design Tips by pixselacademy

Complete thread 🧵

[Kelly Sommers @kellabyte]

Re-platforming on Kubernetes the wrong way is ah easy way to waste 10 million dollars of developer salaries for a year and then deploy to production with a shit system.

This isn’t a monolith vs microservices rant. This is an architecture just running off doing some agenda rant.

[Paul Singh @paulsingh]

first time founder: “we’re a two sided marketplace for…”

second time founder: “I made this thing that saves you time / makes you money. Here’s how you pay me for it.”

[George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian]

Product Management is 20% planning, 20% re-planning, and 60% making slides about re-planning.

[TracketPacer @TracketPacer]

the longer i’m in this industry, the more i realize that “don’t be afraid to ask questions” is one of the worst pieces of advice perpetuated in engineering & tech. i’m *not* afraid to ask questions; what I’m afraid of is having to ask those questions to assholes

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

I've been told many times "we can't replace that monolith because it contains business logic that nobody understands." Do you really want to be maintaining a program that contains logic nobody understands? Good luck with that.