Digital Products Archives

How a Start-Up Founder Manages Its Backlog

Finding the right balance between bug fixes, user feedback, tech debt, and new features took the Marathon team time and practice. Founder Josh Pensky shares what he learned through ten releases, thirteen sprints, and six months of trial and error.

Josh Pensky

How We Power Lovable Products with User Insights

User research is core to how Upstatement designs and develops digital experiences. It’s how we ensure that a product meets the needs of our clients—which are ultimately the needs of the audiences they hope to serve. We strive to develop products that resonate deeply with those audiences; we describe our MVPs as ‘Minimum Lovable Products.’ But what exactly makes a product lovable? To find out, we ask the right people the right questions, in the right way, at the right time.

Britt Dalton and Caroline Mead

Your GPU is a Place

Why knowing the geography of your motherboard matters when it comes to optimizing graphics and animation. If you’ve ever attempted a casual conversation with a graphics engineer, they’ve probably worked the word “shader” in somewhere. If pressed (and even if…

Charlie Hoey

Using Data Visualization to Drive Change

How we helped Everytown turn legal surveys into a tool for change.

Abby Conway

Building a Multi-Step Checkout Form from Scratch

If you’ve ever shopped online, you’re probably familiar with the multiple steps that it takes to check out. First, you fill out your basic contact information; then, your shipping address; next, your payment information and billing address; and finally, review…

Josh Pensky