Micro-productivity: The 10-minute Mobile App System Architecture
These are challenging times, right? Sometimes it’s hard to work, sometimes it’s hard to fall asleep.
Lately, some days I’ve found it to difficult to focus on being productive and knocking out a to-do list. However, you can accomplish what you need and still leave space to focus on other things in your life by leveraging micro-productivity.
In this video, I’m not going to try to teach this fake term that I THOUGHT I just made up, until I found this [https://blog.trello.com/microproducti...]. Rather, I’m demonstrating a time-challenge where I try to quickly design the technical architecture for the prototype of a social media game that we’re building as an example of How To Bring Your Tech Idea to Life. Startup Goals & Product Development
A core tenant of micro-productivity is leveraging feedback. By quickly designing this system architecture I will accomplish the most impactful task that I can do right now, to step closer towards building and getting feedback on the prototype of this game.
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If you're interesting in building technical skills:
PluralSight - An online learning platform: https://www.pluralsight.com/browse/so...
Egghead - Another learning platform great for quick bite-size videos and project-based courses https://egghead.io/
Community support from likeminded product builders:
IndieHackers - https://www.indiehackers.com/start
Where to find talented designers:
https://www.eman-designs.com/
https://www.toptal.com/designers
Toptal is also a great resource for finding developers for hands on coding, and even project managers who can help with planning and strategies on how to best execute the different phases of bringing your idea to life.
If you're looking for a technical collaborator:
http://www.toptal.com
http://www.upwork.com
https://cofounderslab.com/
Tools references in this video:
A simplified app for taking notes https://www.sublimetext.com/
A flexible drawing app for creating visuals such as interaction diagrams https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
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Brave Goals - How to Bring Your Tech Idea to Life
I'm Charles, a Product Engineer, and I'm here to help you along this journey and share what I've learned from 13 years of working as part of teams of talented engineers and designers breathing digital life into what was initial just an idea.
Even if you're not a technical person, you can bring your tech ideas to life.
I've created this channel to share the practical steps that you can take to analyze your idea, and strategies for accomplishing the many phases of product development including user experience design, prototyping, branding, graphic design, developing an minimal viable product, user testing, system design, development, and getting your product into the hands of real users.
http://www.brave-labs.com