The value in prototyping isn’t in the mockups that we produce. It’s in the learning that the team gets after they test the prototype with potential users.

A glimpse into our process from start to finish on a developer portal
project for Merck.

Development tests drive the process for how we implement new features.
Design tests should drive why we are building the features in the first place.

Great software design teams
hire designers who implement,
developers who care about design,
and by blurring the lines between their roles and responsibilities.

A walk through of our product design and development process using Trello.

Start running your own design sprints with our detailed instructions.

A seemingly minor change in wording our user stories to use the jobs-to-be-done framework has had a major positive impact on how we build products.

The second design sprint for the Merck Developer Portal. In this sprint, we build on top of our findings from the last sprint.

A look into a recent product design sprint.

<p>Recently Dan asked me to get new icons for <a href="http://robots.thoughtbot.com/thoughtbot-comes-to-the-research-triangle">Raleigh</a>, <a href="http://robots.thoughtbot.com/thoughtbot-opens-in-nyc">New York City</a>, and <a href="http://robots.thoughtbot.com/opening-an-austin-office">Austin</a> added to some of our landing pages.</p>

<p><img alt="Original Icons" src="http://images.thoughtbot.com/dry-sass/original.png"></p>

<p>Once I created the icons, I checked out the site to put them in below the offices that have already been on the marketing pages. It…</p>