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All our learnings on UX, user onboarding, activation, and product design.
Opinionated essays on the design problems that decide whether products earn use. Two new pieces every other Tuesday.
01 / Latest dispatches
Recently published
Product design · 3 min
Self-serve support is a product surface
A help center built for ticket deflection is one design. A help center built for the user actually getting their question answered is another.
May 20, 2026Onboarding · 4 min
The first 60 seconds: why activation matters
Most products lose users in the first minute, not the first month. The math on why activation is the highest-leverage thing your team can fix.
May 4, 2026UX · 3 min
Understanding your users: the product foundation
How to build a real mental model of the people you're designing for — the interviews, observations, and notes that compound — and why most teams skip this step.
May 4, 2026
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