Schedule: Product Management and Design sessions

Verbal interactions, chats, email, and social media—most of us work to communicate thoughts and ideas constantly. Cyrene Domogalla explains how to be a more effective visual storyteller. Getting people to listen—and being heard—are critical factors in effective communication. Join in to learn how to explain better to achieve your goal and maximize impact with engaging visuals. Read more.

Elasticsearch was built, you know, for search, but the community has continually demanded so much more. Aaron Aldrich explores how, with open source at its core, Elastic has relied on its community to help dictate its future and shares examples illustrating why you should rely on those who use your product most to help shape it and how to begin that journey. Read more.

You no longer have to worry about anyone asking, "How long will that take?" Laura Bernardin Janusek explores how to use Agile, consensus-based estimation technique Planning Poker to generate thoughtful and data-backed estimations for any product build. Read more.

We’ve all heard about the new startup operating in stealth mode, but there's a better path that relies on the principles of open source. Daniel Gruesso explains how product teams can use the principles of open source to build better, faster, and with customer buy-in from the get-go. Read more.

UX happens. From Google to startups, the dominant belief is that the competitive advantage lies in UX. Josh Clark and Mike Biglan explain what it is and why it matters. Read more.

When building interfaces, it can be challenging to keep styles consistent across multiple platforms, devices, teams, and codebases, but design tokens can help. Danny Banks details how to use design tokens to to create consistency and reliability in your interfaces across platforms. Read more.