A dump for R&D resources I currently use, or could be useful in the future for rapid prototyping, experimentation and development.
R&D Resources
A large part of the Product R&D process is rapid experimentation and prototyping, these sites will help with the required efficiency and speed that is vital to successfully moving forwards.
Resource | Description |
Invision | Create interactive prototypes from Sketch or Figma design files for rapid testing and feedback. |
Axure RP 9 | Prototyping software that helps plan and then seamlessly handoff to developers. |
Principle | Easily create animated designs and interactive interfaces. |
Framer | Rapid realistic prototyping - import designs that can be made interactive. |
Flinto | Interactive prototyping that can import Sketch/Figma designs. |
Proto.io | Hi-fidelity prototypes that look and feel like a finished product. |
Origami | Software that covers design, prototyping and animation as a single package. |
Taking the time to understand what an audience is using a product for is incredibly important to discovering problems and opportunities.
Resource | Description |
Hotjar | Identify exactly what users are doing with a product. |
Google Analytics | Raw and vast data around product usage including where users are referred from, how long they are on the site for, and what they are looking for. |
FullStory | Fully understand the existing digital experience of your products for users. |
Efficiently taking insights, ideas and user requirements and translating them in to features and a user interface is very important, the various design software found here can solve that and more.
Resource | Description |
Sketch | Design and manage different fidelity elements, symbols and screens using that can easily be exported for prototyping or to code. |
Figma | UI design software that encourages collaboration as well as the ability to easily export for prototyping and coding. |
Marvel | Design, prototype and easily handoff projects. |
UX Pin | Create high fidelity designs and make them interactive inside a single package. |
Being able to scale up and efficiently conduct research will help with the speed and success of a project. Leaning on these products can help during rapid development.
Resource | Description |
Ethn.io | Recruit research participants. |
Ping Pong | User interviews and usability testing. |
Google Forms | Use to conduct a screener survey to collect research participants and general data. |
Survey Monkey | Use for more in depth surveying of an audience, and use their other services for further expansion of particpants. |
Being able to test an hypothesis with a real audience is the pinnacle of R&D, and MVPs are one of the most valuable methofs for achieving this.
Resource | Description |
Glide | Create an app from a spreadsheet. |
MapHub | Plot personalised maps that can be shared and embedded. |
These resources are particularly useful for easily and quickly generating code, as well as other efficiencies.
Resource | Description |
Deco | Rapidly generate React Native code using this IDE. |
Zeplin | Collaborative and centralised design system that allows designers to sync designs that developers can then grab the code for. |