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Product thinking is all about the user. However, incorporating them in product development may be tough. This guide from NPA's Product Kit helps to implement research and audience feedback in product design and development, with a clear step-by-step structure.

This guide from NPA's Product Kit details the most common methods of product research and how to use them. Immerse yourself in different ways to listen to the user or audience and learn how you can better explore their feedback.

Understanding the audience or user is both fundamental and difficult. There are several methods to be used and factors to keep in mind. This guide from NPA's Product Kit outlines some of the main aspects of user/audience research.

This glossary from NPA's Product Kit explains the meaning of the most common used words in the news product field. From Agile to Value proposition, never get lost in the jargon again.

This glossary from NPA's Product Kit explains the meaning of the most common used words in the news product field. From Agile to Value proposition, never get lost in the jargon again.

We want users to build habits with our products — but what happens when that habit becomes an addiction? In this piece, the author makes the case for driving value, not just use, with product, and for creating healthier products for users along the way.

This article delves into the Eurocentrism of modern design principles, and questions their validity through investigating the historical underpinnings of standards of beauty and aesthetic from ancient Greece to colonialism.

A discussion of the hazards of drawing too broad conclusions from A/B headline tests drawing upon examples from The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Debunking a number of assumptions that qualitative UX methods are inferior to quantitative ones. Qualitative methods are a necessary countermeasure to quantitative methods. Qualitative research is rigorous and systematic. Small sample sizes are not necessarily invalid.

Alex Muench, lead product designer, published a thread gathering created templates for product designers and teams. From outlining a product roadmap to project retrospective, these 5 templates will help you in the design process.

This article is a disquisition to get from problem thinking to a prototype in just 5 weeks following the process of diving in, identifying problems, listening to community needs, mapping the target community, value propositioning and story - and stakeholder mapping. Providing you with useful canvasses.

Michael Flarup talks about bullshit in the world of design and development. He also covers UX as a misused term, the danger of non-native mobile development and design as an afterthought. Michael also gives advice on how to avoid bullshit to make better products.