Top Product Management and UX Articles of 2018

These were my favorite product management and UX articles of 2018, and I have read a lot of articles. What a year of articles being published on Medium, Mind the Product, Smashing Magazine, and UserOnboard! I hope you all enjoy the list.

Product Management

1. In Search of Product/Market fit: How Setapp Found its Customers by Pavlo Pedenko … Read it at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2018/04/search-product-market-fit-setapp-found-customers
2. Products over Projects by Sriram Narayan … Read it at https://martinfowler.com/articles/products-over-projects.html
3. The Patient Change Agent by John Cutler … Read it on Medium
4. Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery by Teresa Torres … Read it at https://www.producttalk.org/2018/12/engineers-and-discovery
5. The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development by Rich Mironov … Read it at https://www.mironov.com/sales-led
6. DevOps Explained for Product Managers by Richard Holmes … Read it at https://www.departmentofproduct.com/blog/devops-explained-for-product-managers
7. Growing up Lean: Lean Strategies for Maturing Products by Janna Bastow … Read it at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2018/03/growing-up-lean
8. The 10 Thorniest Problems In Product (And The Solutions That Successful Companies Are Using To Tackle Them) by Richard Banfield … Read it on Medium
9. Why Business Teams Need to Start Together, Work Together, and Finish Together by John Cutler … Read it at https://www.productplan.com/how-cross-functional-collaboration-works
10. We Can’t Do That In One Sprint by John Cutler … Read it on Medium

UX

1. Best Practices For Mobile Form Design by Nick Babich … Read it at https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/08/best-practices-for-mobile-form-design
2. How QuickBooks Onboards New Users by Samuel Hulick … Read it at https://www.useronboard.com/how-quickbooks-onboards-new-users
3. How WordPress Onboards New Users by Samuel Hulick … Read it at https://www.useronboard.com/how-wordpress-onboards-new-users
4. The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX by Taras Skytskyi … Read it on Medium
5. Prototyping a Smoother Map by Antin Harasymiv … Read it on Medium
6. How Bitcoin Onboards New Users by Samuel Hulick … Read it at https://www.useronboard.com/how-bitcoin-onboards-new-users
7. The 10 Commandments of Good Products by Jeff Davidson … Read it on Medium
8. Example UX docs and deliverables by Neil Turner … Read it at http://www.uxforthemasses.com/resources/example-ux-docs
9. Building the Google Photos Web UI by Antin Harasymiv … Read it on Medium
10. Intelligent Assistants Have Poor Usability: A User Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri by Raluca Budiu and Page Laubheimer … Read it at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/intelligent-assistant-usability

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.

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