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From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.

As a product builder over too many years to mention, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months. Financial products, which is the field I work in, are no exception. With people’s real hard-earned money on the line, user expectations running high, and a crowded market, it’s tempting to throw as many features at the wall as possible and hope something sticks. But this approach is a recipe […]

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User Research Is Storytelling

Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor. And I believed that I’d get to do the things that Indiana Jones did and go on exciting adventures. I even dreamed up ideas for movies that my friends and I could make and star in. But they never went any further. I did, however, end up working in user experience (UX). Now, I realize that there’s an […]

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What To Know About GLP-1 Natural Alternatives 

Changing your diet can help you feel fuller longer and slow down your digestion. The post What To Know About GLP-1 Natural Alternatives  appeared first on MyFitnessPal Blog. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. But sometimes, your body may need extra help with the GLP-1 hormone, especially if you have diabetes.  Certain foods or nutrients may stimulate GLP-1 in the body or have similar effects, like managing blood sugar response or making you feel more full. They act like sidekicks, lending a […]

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18 Gift Ideas for Health Enthusiasts and Beginners

Spread some wellness cheer with gifts that support a healthy lifestyle and weight loss goals, including smart water bottles, portion control plates, and more. The post 18 Gift Ideas for Health Enthusiasts and Beginners appeared first on MyFitnessPal Blog. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. But sometimes, your body may need extra help with the GLP-1 hormone, especially if you have diabetes.  Certain foods or nutrients may stimulate GLP-1 in the body or have similar effects, like managing blood sugar response or […]

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Essential Guide to GLP-1 Agonists for Weight Loss

Learn everything you need to know about GLP-1 agonists—from how they work to who should take them, potential side effects, and more! The post Essential Guide to GLP-1 Agonists for Weight Loss appeared first on MyFitnessPal Blog. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. But sometimes, your body may need extra help with the GLP-1 hormone, especially if you have diabetes.  Certain foods or nutrients may stimulate GLP-1 in the body or have similar effects, like managing blood sugar response or making you […]

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How MyFitnessPal Can Support Your GLP-1 Journey

It’s important to ensure you’re building a healthy lifestyle while on a GLP-1 medication – here’s how MyFitnessPal can help! The post How MyFitnessPal Can Support Your GLP-1 Journey appeared first on MyFitnessPal Blog. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. But sometimes, your body may need extra help with the GLP-1 hormone, especially if you have diabetes.  Certain foods or nutrients may stimulate GLP-1 in the body or have similar effects, like managing blood sugar response or making you feel more full. […]

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Voice Content and Usability

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than for the slangy vagaries of spoken language. Computers have trouble […]

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Designing for the Unexpected

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design When I first started designing websites, my go-to software was Photoshop. I created a 960px canvas and set about creating a layout that I would later drop content in. The development phase was about attaining pixel-perfect accuracy using fixed widths, fixed […]

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A Content Model Is Not a Design System

Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites. Forward-thinking organizations have adopted an omnichannel content strategy, whose mission is to reach audiences across multiple digital channels and platforms. But how do you set up a content management system (CMS) to reach your audience now and in the future? I learned the hard way that creating a content model—a definition of content types, attributes, and relationships that let people […]

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Design for Safety, An Excerpt

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically, do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not enough; we need a strategy. This chapter will equip you with that plan of action. It covers how to integrate safety principles into your design work in order to create tech that’s safe, how to convince your stakeholders […]

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