Elevating teams and products: The unseen value of UX research

User Experience (UX) research is more than a standalone part of the UX design process. It serves as a foundational approach that informs and enhances the product development cycle from scratch. Despite common misconceptions, UX research doesn’t slow down product development. Instead, it actually speeds it up by providing us with reliable and actionable facts. Let’s […]

Service mesh: A primer on Istio

Does the term ‘distributed systems’ give you chills? Do you feel like you’re flying without a cockpit when observing your production environment? We’ve all experienced all that to some extent. Distributed systems are hard to tame, and having full visibility into what’s happening within them is no easy task. One of the many layers to […]

How can you spice up your retrospectives?

How can you spice up your retrospectives? I’ve noticed that since the start of the pandemic, and even before, many teams have been struggling to make retrospectives interesting, to the point where people couldn’t see the value of these meetings anymore. The best retrospectives should provide a forum where the team can look at the […]

How to improve the stakeholder engagement based on the VAK learning models

Have you ever thought about how to better approach or sell your ideas to your stakeholders? Or, to look at it another way, have you ever thought about how your stakeholders approach you? What words and phrases they typically use? Phrases like: “Do you see what I mean?”“The future is grey.”“I hear you!”“I have good […]