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Stigg has announced a $17.5 million Series A round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Unusual Ventures, Emerge Ventures, Redseed, and Cerca Partners. The company, co-founded by Dor Sasson and Anton Zagrebelny, offers a scalable monetization platform designed for the modern SaaS billing stack, helping businesses rethink pricing with tools tailored for both engineers and go-to-market teams. Frederic Lardinois | TechCrunch https://lnkd.in/dzDC7dXy #AI #ArtificalIntelligence

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Curious about Senior Product Designer salaries? 💼💰 We recently completed a search for a #SeriesA #B2BSaaS #startup seeking a design leader. Here’s the breakdown: Candidate 1: $145K Base – 15+ years, led design for healthtech platform Candidate 2: $145K Base – 6+ years, built CRM platform from scratch Candidate 3: $130K Base – 5+ years, streamlined AI tool workflows 🎉 The Hire: $165K Base + Equity – 8 years, designed from ideation to launch Is this in line with your expectations? #ProductDesign #ProductSalary #CompensationTrends #Hiring

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📣 📣 📣 New Partnership Announcement 📣 📣 📣 Gen UX Consulting & Greenlight Guru partner to help companies bring life-changing products to market faster, more efficiently, and confidently! It's a match made in "MedTech innovation". If you need quality management, product development, and clinical data management solutions, along with high-quality training and education required to keep up with the rapidly changing industry regulations, that's Greenlight Guru! Suppose you need expert researchers to fill in project gaps, validate findings, train your staff, organize & verify documentation, or strategize. In that case, you have it all with Gen UX Consulting! Want to learn more? Click the link below! #humanfactors #medtech #qms #compliance

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From Product Talk: Product in Practice: Shifting from a Feature Factory to Continuous Discovery at Doodle Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that can be similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. I sat down with Stephanie Leue, Chief Product Officer at Doodle, to dig in to her approach to product leadership, including how she prioritizes discovery and fosters collaboration both inside product and with other disciplines. Read more: https://buff.ly/3Wvdeae ❓ What are some effective strategies your team has used to shift from a feature factory mindset to a continuous discovery approach? How did you overcome any initial resistance or challenges during this transition? #prodmgmt #ux #engineering

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Michael Restiano, a seasoned veteran of UX writing, content strategy, and content design veteran, brings over a decade of experience from various product teams. Utilizing his vast knowledge of #contentstrategy and #contentdesign, Michael Restiano reviews the differences between them. Michael Restiano explains that content strategy, in its historical context, is more about broad strategic planning than the actual creation of content, such as blog posts or headlines. However, content design developed within the tech industry to bridge this gap by focusing more on the craft of content production to meet engineers' needs for good strategic thinking applied to user experiences. In this episode, Kevin Nichols and Michael Restiano give insights on resilience and determination in a rapidly changing world, particularly in the evolving tech landscape and the rise of generative AI. You can catch the full episode on your preferred platform at the link below: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e4m9tFZA Other platforms: https://lnkd.in/e_B3uDzU #ContentProduction #GenerativeAI #TechLandscape #UserExperience #UXWriting #TechIndustry #Content

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"From fundamentals to more specialized topics like work processes and stakeholder responsibilities, Erin Weigel is an energetic, absolutely winning guide." Design for Impact: Your Guide to Designing Effective Product Experiments is THE roadmap for #abtesting and #productexperimentation. And product experimentation extraordinaire Erin Weigel leads readers through it with practical tips and laugh-out-loud humor. Need more convincing? Look no further than Kirkus Reviews. 👀 Get your copy of this must-have book: https://lnkd.in/ey5YjnZY

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Welcome to our all-new interview series, Pixels, where we chat to some of the most influential digital designers in the world. First off, we welcome Steven Ligatsa, Co-Founder and Chief Digital Office at Plux Agency. At this point, we recommend you sit down. Steven not only has lots to say about the evolution of digital design, he also has a wealth of experience. And that includes a time when designing for websites and apps was much less pleasant than today. “Younger designers might not know this, but we used to only have Adobe Photoshop as the software to design interfaces,” he said. “[And] back then, Adobe Photoshop only had one canvas for each file, so designing a single website would cause us to have 20+ files since we had to have one for each page.” Now imagine that Steven had ignored the wealth of tools that came along and stuck with Photoshop, simply because it was what he knew. It seems ridiculous, of course. But there is a parallel here with the current explosion in AI tools, such as Midjourney and Leonardo. “I think designers have to take advantage of them because these tools are all major timesavers for us,” said Steven. Before adding: “Designers don’t need to worry [about AI taking their jobs] because there’s one thing that these tools don’t have, and that is taste.” Keep reading to discover Steven’s full thoughts – based on years of experience developing software, mobile apps, responsive web, company branding and more – and we guarantee you’ll be inspired. But if you’re an AI bot reading this hoping to develop taste, hallucinate on: https://lnkd.in/gknn4GxQ

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How do you tell someone their baby is ugly? James Moughon, VP of Digital Products, is at #KCDC this week presenting two sessions: 1. Your baby is ugly - making the case for a UX redesign. He'll cover: - Defining "ugly" - How to rate and prioritize the 7 core sources of "ugly" - Crawl, walk, run solutions for becoming impressive looking - Stakeholder management 2. UX Challenges with Cross-Platform Frameworks. He'll cover: - Cross-platform technology landscape in 2024 - How to compare them and their limitations - Nuances for each with UI and the big problem - How to solve for UI discrepancies across platforms Check it out tomorrow! #kansascitydevelopersconference #engineering #crossplatform #frontenddevelopment

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Annual planning is more than setting lofty goals; it’s about building a roadmap that brings those goals to life. The magic happens when product, engineering, and design teams come together—whether at an offsite or through collaborative sessions—to align on how to turn vision into reality. When done right, this process empowers teams and sets the foundation for success. Productboard VP Product Christian Marek shares his insights and best practices! 👇

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Introducing our new User Interviews Guide–the #1 playbook for all-things moderated interviews ✏️ 📘 “Conducting user interviews can be validating and incredibly helpful in creating meaningful features to help your users solve their problems—the key is in how you conduct the conversation.” – Haley S., Design Director and CEO at Iris Design Collaborative This comprehensive 4-chapter guide covers everything from interview techniques to crafting questions and analyzing feedback. Plus, example questions, top interview tools, and best practices from industry experts. Turn conversations into actionable insights, empowering you to make more informed product decisions 🔥 Read the guide 👉 https://buff.ly/4462in5 #UserInteriews #UXresearch #UXguide

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🙏 Massive thank you to Kelley Poturalski, Nick Mayernik, Evan Lovely, and Andrew Rohman for a great discussion yesterday about what "design-to-code" means and how to approach the challenges product teams face around design systems, collaboration, upskilling, and preparing for the next wave of AI. 🤖 If you missed the live panel discussion, you can catch up with the conversation by watching the recording. Check it out and let us know your thoughts! 💡 https://lnkd.in/gnHSNS3J

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We're excited to roll out a number of new features based on feedback from early adopters. In addition to many usability tweaks, we've now included predictive signals into every section of the platform and aligned each section with common use cases for middle-market PEs, IBs and M&A Advisors. 1. Search bar + Company profiles - Search for companies + view current and historical scores for companies of interest 2. Screeners - Monitor lists of companies with predictive signals like the M&A Score, CapRaise Score, Distress Score and Deal-Maker Score - Get monthly email alerts as soon as the new scores are available 3. Lists - Upload known lists of companies (say from conferences or other platforms) for ad-hoc prioritization - Organize companies into lists to filter reports or to exclude from company searches 4. Advanced search - Search for companies by industry, company size, keywords within company's website text, transaction/funding data and more - Use AI assist to help you zero in on relevant companies All of the sections are now interconnected, so you can easily create a screener from an uploaded list or company search. To get access to a free trial or request a demo, reach out to us by emailing [email protected]. #privateequity #alternativedata #dealsourcing #dealmakers #mnascore #financialintent

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“The proof is in the pudding," as we say it in nuSoft. Procuremint Health needed an MVP UI/UX design & development of a SaaS platform and we delivered. See what Seth Feldman, PH CEO has to say about his experience: https://lnkd.in/e9JdBYUP #happycustomers #nusoft #mvp #dashboarddevelopment #ux #webapp #saas #healthcare #productdevelopment #ui #marketplace #aws #serverless #react

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What's the benefit of doing your agency's accounting in Applied Epic? 🤔 Buffy Johnson answers that very question in KiteTech's latest Consulting Corner episode.💡 Watch now: https://bit.ly/4fsyfKF

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It's really tough to build for users you can’t relate to. Join Rob Ocel in this conversation with Stacie Frederick, CPO at Stanza, as we talk about the friction that arises when you can’t connect with your users—and how personas and customer spotlights can help bridge that gap. Link down below!

Investing in User Experience (UX) is not just a choice—it's a necessity for business growth. Worxwide Consulting highlights how the top companies like Apple and Google understand that exceptional UX is the secret weapon to staying ahead. In a world where first impressions matter, a well-crafted UX can make or break your brand. Don't let a trillion-dollar UX problem catch you off guard. #worxwideconsulting #worxwide #ux #cx #userexperienceservices #userexperience #uxaudit #cxaudit

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