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Issue 312

Articles

Building products – Things I wish I knew earlier when I started building products.
An attempt to synthesize what it really matters to build great products.

A practical guide to solving product debt
Most teams produce it, but few know how to fight it.

Why do we pay to use a product? Understanding mental models in UX
Analyzing great apps with mental models and persuasive patterns.

Mobile UX: Avoid Using Subpages within the Product Details Page (26% Don’t)
The amount of content available on a typical mobile product page makes maintaining an overview and sense of orientation difficult for many users.

5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a Design System at Spotify
Avoid over-complicating and over-engineering a solution without a good amount of input from the people that will actually use the system.

Research for Impact: Improving Our Personal Styling Experience
Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods to fuel more delightful customer experiences.

Tools and Resources

Design good practices
Guidelines to naming conventions, components structure and document organization.

Freehand Template Gallery
InVision partnered with industry leaders to bring you the best, proven frameworks for your ideation process, research, strategy sessions, and more.

Iranians Who Design Products
A growing curated directory of talented Iranian designers in tech.

Pattern Collect
A curated gallery of patterns by awesome designers & illustrators.

UX Portfolio

Tarrea Tolbert
Tarrea is a Product Designer at Wish.

Last But Not Least

Thinking Contextually
Whatever you’re working on isn’t an end in itself; it’s always part of something bigger.

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
— Eero Saarinen