Top Product Management and UX Articles of 2019
2 min readDec 21, 2019
These were my favorite product management and UX articles of 2019, and I have read a lot of articles. What a year of articles being published on Medium, Mind the Product, and Nielsen Norman Group! I hope you all enjoy the list.
Product Management
- 15 Things You Should Know About Product Managers by John Cutler … Read it on Medium
- The State of Product Led Growth by Kyle Poyar … Read it at https://openview.vc/2Za0oQy
- Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input by Rich Mironov … Read it at https://www.mironov.com/ceos
- What Do Product Leaders Do? by Rich Mironov … Read it at https://www.mironov.com/whatleadersdo
- Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline by Janna Bastow … Read it at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/free-your-product-roadmap-and-ditch-the-timeline
- How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software by Rich Mironov … Read it at https://www.mironov.com/hw
- The importance of humility in product management by Thor Mitchell … Read it on Medium
- How to Make Product Decisions With Transparency and Trust by Ellen Gottesdiener … Read it at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/how-to-make-product-decisions-with-transparency-and-trust
- How to Spot a Partial Product Manager by Kate Hopkins … Read it at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/how-to-spot-a-partial-product-manager
- Maintaining the empowerment of product teams by Thor Mitchell … Read it on Medium
UX
- The case study factory by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga … Read it at https://essays.uxdesign.cc/case-study-factory
- The world needs a tech diet; here is how designers can help by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga … Read it at https://essays.uxdesign.cc/tech-diet
- The U.S. Navy’s $100 million checkbox by Adrian Hanft … Read it on Medium
- Table Design Patterns On The Web by Chen Hui Jing … Read it at https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/01/table-design-patterns-web
- Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites by Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael Friedman, Elena Lucherini, Jonathan Mayer, Marshini Chetty, and Arvind Narayanan … Read it at https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns
- Mental Models for Intelligent Assistants by Raluca Budiu … Read it at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mental-model-ai-assistants
- The Science of Silence: Intentional Silence as a Moderation Technique by Kate Kaplan … Read it at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/intentional-silence-ux
- Duolingo’s User Retention: 8 Tactics Tested on 300 Million Users … Read it at https://growth.design/case-studies/duolingo-user-retention
- What B2B Designers Can Learn from B2C About Building Trust by Therese Fessenden … Read it at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/b2b-trust-from-b2c
- Trans-inclusive Design by Erin White … Read it at https://alistapart.com/article/trans-inclusive-design
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.
