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When a Design Audit is Right for Your Team

Design audits are an eye-opening, rewarding tool. Identifying when to use them is a skill of its own. Let’s explore the benefits for your brand and why a design audit might be the right choice for you and your team.
Alex Chen
August 24, 2020
How thoughtbot helped the MBTA improve communication among train officials

We’re excited to announce that our work with the MBTA is now featured in the Summer 2020 issue of Design Museum magazine, as well as in a new case study on thoughtbot.com.
Jaclyn Perrone
August 21, 2020
Advice for starting a health tech startup

Startups in the healthcare space have some unique decisions to make early on: which incentives model to use, how to organize a medical team, and identifying legal resources to name a few.
Lindsey Christensen
August 17, 2020
Check your return values: APIs

Learn how to apply a little forethought and discipline to provide your users a more informative and stable app experience.
Mike Burns
August 17, 2020
- Web
- Rails
Using patient interviews to prioritize features for a health tech product

Conducting user interviews is especially important for heathcare companies. They help us shape our products, prioritize features, and sometimes even blow our minds.
Kyle Fiedler
August 11, 2020
Check your return values: the Web

Learn how to apply a little forethought and discipline to provide your users a more informative and stable Web experience.
Mike Burns
August 10, 2020
- Web
- Rails
Improving the usability and accessibility of a healthcare website by being mindful of reading level

Improving the reading level is often overlooked or downplayed as unglamorous work. Yet it is one of the most effective things you can do to make a product more usable.
Eric Bailey
August 6, 2020
Studio Culture and the Spirit of Vulnerability

A brief exploration into the beloved studio culture at thoughtbot and answering some poignant questions from the perspective of a newbie.
Alex Chen
August 5, 2020
My first remote design sprint

How to be a good human and how to be good to other humans in a remote design sprint.
Elaina Natario
August 3, 2020
Flow control in react-navigation

Create asynchronous flow controls using react-navigation.
Rakesh Arunachalam
July 28, 2020
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