Shavin Peiries is a writer, designer, and engineer. He writes a newsletter that focuses on guiding product managers and founders to develop their product intuition through useful customer research.
User Research and Customer Insights
I started learning design and strategy to get people to buy and use the projects I had spent months coding. Thanks to my extroverted co-founder, Mayun, I had the opportunity to approach anyone and showcase a prototype. It made it easy for me as an introvert. Talking to people used
Ideation and Problem Solving
Dependency-based sequencing is a powerful technique for managing complex projects. By mapping out the interrelationships between tasks and prioritizing based on dependencies, you can minimize rework, enable smoother workflows, and achieve project goals faster.
Ideation and Problem Solving
It was the 12th day of our development cycle for the new “Leads” feature, and my tech lead looked like he wanted me dead. The team worked long hours, fueled by lattes and the pressure to deliver. Despite our best efforts, our Linear board was growing more than it was
Product Strategy and Management
“If the dev team has to go through another pivot, I don’t think we’ll survive.” — The chilling words of my tech lead at Aristotle. In the startup world, change is not just constant—it’s a matter of survival. The graveyard for most startups comes from rushing to
Product Design and Development
Learn how to identify and incorporate emotional and social motivators into your product development and sales strategy.
User Research and Customer Insights
Get tips to enhance your workflow and improve the efficiency of your research using ChatGPT.
User Research and Customer Insights
Learn where to find valuable customer data, what to extract, and how to quickly analyze it using review websites and Chat GPT. Don't waste time; get the insights you need to confidently start building and marketing your startup today.
User Research and Customer Insights
A practical application of using Chat GPT to spend less time synthesizing insights from customer research
Product Design and Development
As designers we are expected to follow a specific process to arrive at a solution. Our portfolios, discussions with recruiters, and explanations to stakeholders all require us to show a clear, linear approach to our work. However, in reality, the design process whilst doing the work is not always so
User Research and Customer Insights
When designing a product, it can be confusing to know who your users, buyers and customers are. To break it down for you... The user is the person who uses your product to make progress. But they're not necessarily the ones paying for it. The buyer is the person who
Product Design and Development
A step-by-step guide to help transform how your company views design and utilises it for growth instead of decoration
Product Design and Development
When you're working with component variants, it can be difficult to change the style of one element in a component variant and have it propagate to all the other variants. What I used to do was select all the elements that needed changing manually; * This meant holding down command key
Personal Growth and Leadership
Learn how to navigate negative feedback or mitigate it completely with this one strategy
Product Design and Development
Learn how to design your own component library without spending money on a course and use a design kit like Untitled UI to learn the fundamentals.
Personal Growth and Leadership
Learn what UI/UX design recruiters are looking for when evaluating portfolios and what you can do to start learning
User Research and Customer Insights
Learn how you can get in touch with your future customers when you don't know them