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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Why did we choose them?

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Mobile Test Automation Playbook

The Product Coalition

This is writing code and/or using tools to automate the testing of mobile software?—?either either mobile versions/renderings of websites, or native mobile apps, for example on iOS or Android specific phones/tablets. Testing of mobile apps or websites, however, is complex and challenging. an app or website.

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IBM’s Arin Bhowmick on designing ethical AI

Intercom, Inc.

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. User research is a vital part of the design process. Since Thomas Watson Jr.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Opportunities at trivago

Product Talk

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. The product trio collaborating on the opportunity solution tree using Mural. But there was still more they could be doing.