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Great post & insights from Vilas! Practicing what we preach over here at Gitpod

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Would it be possible to have some help updating this section of our website on Framer? Simple edits: 1) Update to say Terms and Conditions, 2) put a heart between "with" and "in" and 3) Put Space Needle within the word Seattle. 4) If possible, make "Built with <3 in Seattle a really cool mini interactive graphic. 5) Ensure that the spacing is adjusted so that it looks right. I'm new to Framer and am having some trouble.

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If you're not following Ben Lang, then you should. He brings out the best under the radar opportunities with the next play newsletter. https://lnkd.in/gAxDUgzN. For product managers out there, follow him to see how you can make your career growth non-linear. #productmanagement #startups

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If you want to learn more about how we think about Streamlit and how we design Streamlit features, check out my new post: JUST BUILD IT How we design Streamlit to bias you toward forward progress. https://lnkd.in/gQJG9dww

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After a year of work my book Building A Startup - A Primer For The Individual Contributor is finally available! https://lnkd.in/erThxvpP If you’re working in or around startups as an IC or technical leader this book is for you. It’s based on 20 years of startup work and will help set you up for success to do more with less, move faster and more correct, and spend more time building features and product people love and less time banging your head at roadblocks and bottlenecks.

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Let's build something great together! 🤝 @mParticle's CDP 2.0 is a collaborative platform that brings marketing and IT teams closer. Learn how to break down silos and drive better business outcomes. 📈 Read our new blog series!

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Our design team recently attended Figma's Config 2024 conference, and they returned energized and full of insights. The event was a fantastic opportunity to network with designers from around the world and deepen our knowledge of Figma, our most critical design tool. Figma AI:  The new AI capabilities in Figma are particularly intriguing. Features like generating UI mocks, images, prototypes, and contextual layer renaming promise to streamline our design process. We're excited to explore how these tools can be applied practically in our projects. Figma Slides:  Figma's bold move into the presentation space with Figma Slides is noteworthy. Challenging established tools like PowerPoint and Google Slides, Figma Slides offers advanced editing tools, AI writing assistance, and interactive features. We're keen to see how this evolves and how we can leverage it for our design presentations. Attending Config 2024 has been incredibly valuable for our team. Jay Fienberg, Mariyam Elshrief, Claire Barth, and Ola Hirszler, feel free to call out some of your favorite learnings from the event! Let's embrace these innovations and see where they take us! #Design #Figma #Config2024 #Innovation #AI #Networking #TeamGrowth

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Where did all the product engineers go? Is there a new title in town? I'm talking about people who are skilled at traversing the entire stack (frontend/backend/api +) to build incredible product and ux. #engineering #recruiting #product

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Sharing real stories from the trenches of product management. First topic - balancing big visions 🌟 with building MVPs that actually solve problems 💡 Would love to hear your thoughts! 👇 https://lnkd.in/einzrwbZ #ProductManagement #MVP #Startups

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From Product Talk: Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs Engineers can be reluctant to participate in discovery, but getting over that initial resistance can have significant benefits. In this edition of Product in Practice, hear from Ellen Juhlin, Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs. Ellen shares how she's gotten engineers involved in discovery and some of the quick wins they've experienced as a result. Read more: https://buff.ly/3MhYkzH ❓ What strategies have you used to involve engineers in the product discovery process, and what impact did it have on your team's ability to identify and solve customer problems? #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

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Product leaders, when you’ve got a strong UX partner in place, you’re able to focus on the things your business needs most from you. — Hi, I’m Erin. Follow me for user experience tips and insights from my 20 years as a UX designer and reach out to me if you have questions about how Slide UX can help you with your project. 🤓👋

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Chief Product Officers have the shortest tenure of any C-Suite member: 2.5 years. In my recent interviews with Product Leaders, a common theme emerged - navigating a role under a non-technical Founder/CEO can be extremely challenging…but not impossible: CPOs that focused on educating their org about how product works, shared their vision and strategy constantly, and showcased how product metrics tied to clear ROI and customer value had longer tenures and better, more collaborative relationships with the rest of the organization > those who didn’t.

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ENOUGH WITH THE FRAMEWORKS! If you've worked with me, you've probably heard me say that. Product teams should be focused on driving outcome and impact, not falling in love with the process. And that's something Peter Yang from Roblox knows all too well. We had a great conversation on Next Gen Builders about how the PM role is evolving, how to use #AI to focus on more important work (like talking to customers), and more. Tune in to our conversation: https://lnkd.in/dY-AZh2s

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Just wrapped up Marty Cagan's latest book, "Transformed," and I must say, it's an absolute pleasure. Excited to share two crucial (for me) insights on fostering a truly effective product operating team: 1/ Ensure your team has direct (direct!) access to stakeholders across various domains—legal, marketing, you name it—alongside regular user interviews and robust data from analytics systems. 2/ Challenge your team with problems to solve, not just features to build. It's about cultivating a problem-solving mindset that drives innovation and meaningful solutions. Useful tip: move from feature-based roadmap to outcome-based roadmap. Have you ever met truly product-led teams?

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As we kick off Q4 in just a couple days, I wanted to reflect on all the new things we've rolled out to our users on Huddled just in the past month alone. We dropped Huddled v1.10 earlier this month – it was probably one of the most exciting updates we've shipped. ✨ We've doubled down on our AI tools and doing so in an ethical way. We're making it even safer and faster when connecting and collaborating online to improve the way teams, groups and cohorts work together. 🤩 Message reactions; a small touch with big emotions. Just to make it 10x easier to acknowledge a message without having to reply to it. 💡 Portfolios to showcase your work and who you are. Huddled is a great way for education providers, accelerators and organisations to enable their members to express themselves and showcase who they are. We've rolled out new tools to add images to each work experience or education as well as profile prompts to perhaps help kickstart the conversation with some icebreakers! 🖌 A much more robust post creator. We know our users love using posts on Huddled to share important news, announcements, resources...etc to those in their workspace. We always look to improve our UX / UI across the platform – so we think this change is definitely a small but important one! The full rundown is linked below, if you'd like to check it out! What to expect in upcoming updates 👉 more of 'Huddled AI', more portfolio-focused tools, revamped admin panel for analytics and workspace management, advanced tools to organise messages/posts...just to name a few!

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Amidst tons of platforms secretly changing their Terms of Service for AI, kudos to Figma for doing this in a transparent and ethical way. I got an email on Monday morning from Figma about their proposed ToS changes related to AI, and here are a few things I appreciated about it. 1️⃣ They were upfront about wanting to use data to build AI systems. Many others have added 'evasive' language to their ToS to avoid using the terms 'AI' 2️⃣ They give clear instructions how to opt-out, and support self-service opt-out. Other platforms have told us to email our support staff, and hope we get a prompt response. 3️⃣ Specified a date when the training collection will start. This is crucial for many consumer protection and privacy laws, and being clear what the cutoff for data is does more to meaningfully inform customers than even most cookie pop-ups. Would love to see more companies be upfront and clear about this given we all know they're doing it anyway. We (Trustible) talk about the issues with secret ToS changes, and other topics in our weekly newsletter. Link to this week's post in the comments.

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Absolutely energizing conversation with Christopher Nguyen - he's doing so much to help #designers turn into #entrepreneurs, and unlock true economic freedom. A few nuggets that stuck with me from our convo: - Early stage designers are focused on getting a job. Later stage designers realize they need to go independent. - Entrepreneurs think about all of their online activity as part of a single funnel. How do you get customers from one entrypoint into more and more of what you have to offer? - People follow you for your journey. They want to learn how you got there, so they can get there themselves. Can you offer them something that will help them get to where you are now?

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I share this same dream with my buddy Naitik. I believe design founders are equipped with the tools and mindset to build an impact first business. Can anyone please share any leads on this for him and me to start exploring this possibility? #UXinnovators #designfounders

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