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A guide for early-stage startups to do UX research fast and cheap. Learn how to recruit real users, run interviews in a week, and get genuine product insights without breaking the bank.

Learn what design work to skip before product-market fit. Focus on clarity, speed, and user learning—not pixel perfection.

What branding do early-stage startups really need? Learn how to create a minimum viable brand – the key design, voice, and identity essentials for idea-stage startups – and what to skip until you have traction.

You don’t need to code a full product to find out if you’re on the right track. This post will show you how to use design to validate your startup idea quickly and cheaply, before you write a single line of code.

If you've tried integrating Alpine with Phoenix LiveView, you've probably hit at least one of these maddening bugs where everything should work, but mysteriously doesn't. The docs say they play nice together. The examples look simple. Yet here you are, debugging phantom state loss and disappearing DOM elements at 2 AM.

In ElixirConf EU 2025 I spoke about approaches to authorization and access control in Elixir and presented how the Permit library fits into that. You can watch the presentation on YouTube if that sounds interesting!

Learn how UX influences ROI at every stage. Bad design leads to higher churn, lower activation, and growing support costs.

It's 3 months since ElixirConf EU 2025 in Kraków, and my presentation about authorization and access control in Elixir with the Permit library is now available to watch on YouTube.

Even the best-designed products can fail if users get stuck, confused, or frustrated. That’s where a UX audit template comes in – a structured way to uncover usability issues that might be costing you customers and revenue. This template is part of a set of templates designed to streamline the audit process.