I used to subscribe to lots of emails from online retailers. As a result, I have thousands of these emails stored in folders (also known as “labels”) in Gmail. After deciding it was time for a cleanup, I discovered that mass deleting emails in Gmail is not that intuitive. So, here’s how to do it. Read More
Author: Christian Watson
8 Easy UX Improvements to Make the Grab App More User Friendly
Grab is a mobile app, like Uber or Lyft, which you use to book a car or taxi to drive you somewhere. I use the Grab Android app everyday to take my kids to and from school. Overall, it has a good user experience, especially after a recent redesign. However, there are still a number of usability ‘niggles’ which I suggest how to solve below. Read More
Thoughts on Starting a New Side Hustle
I’ve been thinking about starting a side hustle for a while now. As a Ramit Sethi email subscriber I’m well aware of the myriad of opportunities to generate income on the side, doing something(ideally) I love. The challenge is that I’ve been having a hard time coming up with what that something I love is. Read More
The Most Popular Medium Articles on Product Management
A lot has been written on Medium about product management. A lot. You only have to do a search for product management or view all the posts tagged with product management to get an idea of the huge volume of knowledge available.
To help sift through all the noise, I’ve collected the 18 most liked (well, clapped) articles that are directly focused on the subject. Read More
Innovative Approaches to Mobile PDP Design: Part 2
I recently wrote a post highlighting novel and innovative approaches online retailers were taking to product detail page design. Well, I had quite a few more examples to share, so I thought I would include them in a separate post. So, here are several more ways that some ecommerce retailers are rethinking PDP design. Read More
14 Innovative Approaches to Mobile Product Detail Page Design
Mobile product detail pages (PDP) follow a largely standard design. Given the small area of screen real estate available and the commonality of the content to be conveyed it is not surprising that PDP designs have become quite similar.
In this post I’ll examine which retailers are trying new ideas for displaying content and offering unexpected functionality on the PDP. Here are 14 examples to explore. Read More
Micro-interactions Improve the Chase Bank Online User Experience
I really like the way that the Chase bank website logo animates as you scroll down the page. It just goes to show that even stuffy, corporate websites like banks don’t have to be “boring.” Read More
11 Tips to Improve Your Ecommerce Mobile Site Search
If you run an ecommerce website or app, it’s likely that 30-50% of your transactions involved your site search. That’s why it’s critical that your mobile site search is well optimized, both in terms of functionality and user experience. Read More
My Favorite Productivity Tools of 2016
I try out a lot of software and web apps to work more efficiently. Here are the ones that have found their way into my productivity toolbox in 2016 (listed in alphabetical order). Read More
Scaling Mobile App Development Using a Decentralized Model
In order to scale mobile app development to support a growing product development organization, we are migrating to a decentralized development model, with multiple feature (vertical) teams supported by a cross-functional platform (horizontal) team. Read More