Education

Navigating the product development journey

I attended yet another workshop organized by Founder Institute titled ‘Proof of Concept to Scalable MVP: Navigating the Product Development Journey’. The workshop was designed to provide non-technical startup founders with guidance on the entire product development process, from planning and formulating a proof of concept to creating a fully functioning MVP and maintaining it. …

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solving puzzles

Fall in love with the problem, not the solution

Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center organized an exciting fireside chat with Uri Levine, who built two unicorn companies, worked with dozens of startups, and is the author of the book ‘Fall in love with the problem, not the solution’. Solve a problem and create value When asked what ‘Fall in love with the problem, not the solution …

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How to identify a viable business idea&launch your startup

Founder Institute, an American business incubator, entrepreneur training, and startup launch program organized a workshop and a networking event titled: How to identify a viable business idea and launch your startup. I attended it together with over 400 attendees from around the world. These are the most important takeaways. Focus on the problem you’re trying …

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turn ideas into reality

ABC Accelerator workshops in December

An award-winning Slovenian ABC Accelerator program for startups and scaleups, focusing on traction, revenue, and next investment, invited me for a round of online workshops that I attended this December. B2B Accelerator – optimize your sales processes This workshop was led by Žiga Komac, an engineer who advises companies of all sizes on the implementation of …

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design sprint

Design sprint – five steps away from a great design solution

Week 3 of the Google’s Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design is behind me. In this week we covered the Design sprint – an intense 5-day process where user-centered teams tackle design problems. Working with expert insights, teams ideate and test solutions on selected users in a short time span. Five phases of the design …

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Breaking down the barriers – Accessibility and assistive technology

I have successfully completed the Week 2 of the Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design course by Google on the Coursera platform. The main takeaway from this week is the importance of having accessibility and assistive technology in mind when designing products and user experiences. Accessibility Designing with accessibility in mind means that we are …

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Update on progress so far – becoming a UX designer

In the last two months, one could argue I haven’t made much progress with my studies with Coursera:  Web Design for Everybody: Basics of Web Development & Coding Specialization course by Michigan University and  Google UX Design course. Introduction to HTML and CSS3 I first enrolled and started Web Design for Everybody at the beginning of …

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