Writing before you design forces clarity that mockups can hide. If you can’t articulate what a feature does in plain language, the design isn’t ready. This approach catches bad ideas before they become expensive to reverse in Figma or code. Especially useful early in a project, when decisions are still cheap to change.

https://karlkoch.me/writing/write-first-design

#UXDesign #DesignProcess #ProductThinking (https://uxbrad.com/activity/20260608/091500/)

Many products fail not because of poor execution, but because the wrong thing was built.

Product discovery helps teams test assumptions before committing time, money, and code. Talking to users, exploring problems, and validating ideas early reduces risk and sharpens focus.

Learning first is often the fastest way to build something that truly matters.
#ProductDiscovery #ProductThinking

“Signal Live” — a live social feed concept I explored as part of my VibeCoding series.

Idea: real-time, lightweight sharing.

Question: does this actually add utility, or just accelerate noise?

Curious how others think about this trade-off.

Signal/live is at 🔗: https://signal-feed-8pl.pages.dev/

Blog post:
🔗https://mrdee.in/vibecoding/vibecoding-021-signal-live/

#VibeCoding #ProductThinking #SocialMedia

🎷 We don’t make them like they used to.

A vinyl from 1964. Still intact. Still meaningful.

Can we build digital products
that make someone say “wow” decades later?

#DigitalCraft #ProductThinking

I’ve been sharing my journey of building AllInOneTools on daily.dev.

Free tools.
No signup.
Privacy-first.
Open → Do → Close.

If you're building products or care about clean UX, let’s connect 👇
https://app.daily.dev/allinonetools

#BuildInPublic #WebDev #ProductThinking

I write about analytics, product, and AI at Data Signal. Recently covered Bayesian inference in football (Antonio Conte's UCL luck), LLM ensemble methods, and when product changes mask operational problems.
If any of this resonates, would love to have you as a reader:

https://datasignal.substack.com

#DataScience #Analytics #ProductThinking #AI #MachineLearning #Blog #newsletter

When AI codes better than us, what do we actually bring to the table? This post gets it right: talking to users, choosing what to build, scoping work, knowing when to rewrite. The real value isn't the code—it's the judgement behind it. AI is making us rediscover what matters. https://dev.to/canro91/what-coders-could-offer-instead-of-writing-lines-of-code-if-ai-takes-over-24ii

#ProductThinking #AIInTech

A product can be usable and still feel inconsiderate.

This is a short reflection on why UX alone doesn’t guarantee care, and what gets missed when we treat it that way.

→ https://iamshift.substack.com/ux-is-not-the-same-as-being-considerate

#iamshift
#UXDesign #ProductThinking #Design #BuildInPublic

UI breaks down when it’s designed in isolation.

This post looks at what changes when interfaces are treated as systems instead of surfaces.

https://iamshift.substack.com/designing-ui-as-a-system

#iamshift
#DesignSystems #UIDesign #ProductThinking #BuildInPublic

ToDo began as a response to a gap — not in the market, but in how I needed to work.

This is the first post in a series reflecting on its origins and evolution.

https://iamshift.substack.com/todo-when-nothing-else-existed

#iamshift
#IndieDev #AppDevelopment #ProductThinking #BuildInPublic