Resources

These are a selection of my favourite tools, leaders, and resources that I've gathered over the years. They have influenced me in my search for building better products and have proven to add value to my workflow. Hope you find them useful too!

Tools

Task management

  • Jira

  • Trello

UX Design

  • Pen and paper

  • Balsamiq - good for quick low fidelity wireframing

  • Axure RP - good for complex prototypes

UI Design

  • Figma

Analytics

  • Amplitude - great for generating custom reports if tags are implemented properly

  • Google Analytics - good foundational analytics

  • Hotjar - good for heatmaps and session recording

  • Optimizely - great for A/B testing

Customer surveys

  • SurveyMonkey

  • Typeform

  • Google Forms

User research and testing

  • UserTesting

  • Lookback

Whiteboarding and flowcharts

  • Miro

  • draw.io

Documentation

  • Notion

  • Slab

  • Confluence

Collaboration

  • Slack

  • Google Workspace

  • Zoom

People Management

  • Culture Amp

Books

  • Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush

  • Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri

  • First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins

  • Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan

  • Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

  • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa Torres

  • Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust by J. J. Sutherland and Ken Schwaber

  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings

  • Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

  • When Coffee and Kale Compete: Become Great at Making Product People Will Buy by Alan Klement

  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

  • How to win friends and influence people: How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie

  • Measuring the user experience by Tom Tullis

  • UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design by Laura Klein

  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

  • The Product Book: How to Become A Great Product Manager by Carlos González de Villaumbrosia

  • Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean by Kim Scott

  • Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug

  • Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

  • The Win Without Pitching Manifesto by Blair Enns

  • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo

  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

  • Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology by Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bravo

Product Leaders

Blogs

Podcasts