Top Product Management and UX Articles of 2017
These were my favorite product management and UX articles of 2017. What a year of articles being published on Medium, Smashing, and Nielsen Norman Group! I hope you all enjoy the list.
Product Management
1. APIs Explained for Product Managers by Richard Holmes
Read it at https://www.departmentofproduct.com/blog/apis-explained-for-product-managers
2. Spend Time Thinking About The People Who Don’t Use Your Product by Adam Nash
Read it at https://adamnash.blog/2017/05/02/spend-time-thinking-about-the-people-who-dont-use-your-product
3. 21 Questions for Your PM Role Interviewer by John Cutler
4. Product Manager Skills By Seniority Level — A Deep Breakdown by Brent Tworetzky
5. Backlog/Roadmap Hygiene Tips by John Cutler
6. Getting Sales + Product In Sync by Melissa Perri
Read it at https://melissaperri.com/blog/2017/04/20/getting-sales-product-in-sync
7. Five Common Myths About “Iteration” by The Clever PM
Read it at http://www.cleverpm.com/2017/04/05/five-common-myths-about-iteration
8. I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics
Read it at http://firstround.com/review/im-sorry-but-those-are-vanity-metrics
9. Great PMs don’t spend their time on solutions by Paul Adams
Read it at https://blog.intercom.com/great-product-managers-dont-spend-time-on-solutions
10. Managing Product Teams for Success by Teresa Torres
Read it at https://www.producttalk.org/2017/05/managing-product-teams
UX
1. Designing More Efficient Forms: Structure, Inputs, Labels And Actions by Nick Babich
Read it at https://theblog.adobe.com/designing-more-efficient-forms-structure-inputs-labels-and-actions
2. Red, White, and Blue: Eight rules about color palettes that everyone (including non-designers) should know by Nick Babich
3. How United Onboards New Users
Read it at https://www.useronboard.com/how-united-onboards-new-users
4. Ideation in Practice: How Effective UX Teams Generate Ideas by Aurora Harley
Read it at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ideation-in-practice
5. Designing The Perfect Slider by Vitaly Friedman
Read it at https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/07/designing-perfect-slider
6. Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page (Case Study) by Adam Silver
Read it at https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/better-form-design-one-thing-per-page
7. Best Practices for Modals / Overlays / Dialog Windows by Naema Baskanderi
8. UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet by Sarah Gibbons
Read it at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-mapping-cheat-sheet
9. Design for internationalization: Build better products for people around the world by John Saito
10. Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker by Vitaly Friedman
Read it at https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/07/designing-perfect-date-time-picker
What did I forget to list? Please leave a comment and let me know. Note: I left out a lot of great podcasts and videos, but I hope someone else can compile a list of those.
