Resources

The following resources are listed here to help the product community locate useful tools and services.

Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading for Product Managers and User Experience Professionals:

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The Good Experience Newsletter — Mark Hurst
Good Product Manager – Jeff Lash
All About Product Management – Derek Morrison
Joel on Software — Joel Spolsky
The Inmates are Running the Asylum — Alan Cooper
Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug
UIETips — Jared Spool
Disambiguity — Leisa Reichel
Pmarca Blog – Marc Andreessen

User Experience Design Service Providers

Mental Models — www.mentalmodels.com
Creative Good — www.creativegood.com
Dubberly Design — www.dubberly.com
Advanced Common Sense — www.sensible.com
Two Rivers Consulting — www.tworivers.com
Design Map — www.designmap.com
Leisa Reichelt — www.disambiguity.com

Visual Design Service Providers

Westminster Design — www.westminsterpromotions.com
Walter Creative Consultants - www.walterconsultants.com

Agile/Scrum Training for Product Software Companies

Good Agile – www.goodagile.com
Mountain Goat Software - www.mountaingoatsoftware.com
Agile Product Design – www.agileproductdesign.com

Product Marketing Training Providers

Pragmatic Marketing - www.pragmaticmarketing.com

Technology Consulting Services

Web site scalability, reliability, availability:

AKF Consulting — www.akf-consulting.com
Merope Consulting — www.merope.com

Prototyping and Visualization Tools

Axure — www.axure.com
DreamWeaver — www.adobe.com

Project Based Wiki

Basecamp — www.basecamphq.com

Customer Community Forums

Idea Exchange — ideas.salesforce.com

Examples

See examples of recommended artifacts and deliverables.