MakeSpace Labs, Inc

Optimizing Design For Mobile Web

After analyzing our conversion data it was clear that our responsive mobile web experience was leading to a larger number of drop offs in our acquisition booking flow. By stripping down the booking…

Our team culture

Over the first few years of Product @ MakeSpace, our team has developed a set of practices, or inspirations, that we’ve refined with each member joining and that we can all consider to be the…

After the Worst Call

The morning of May 9, 2016 I was standing on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange about to go live with an interview when I got a call from my partner Rahul. I could sense in his voice that…

MVVM Unit Test Example Walkthrough

Unit tests are hard. Unit tests in the iOS development world? Notoriously hard. But there’s hope! The MVVM architecture pattern (great introduction to MVVM here) makes unit testing much easier. Let’s…

My most important advice about product growth analytics

Whether you are launching a new mobile app, or wondering how to improve your existing website, you know you need a proper analytics product. I think there is a ton of good blog posts out there on why…

Go ahead, ship it.

Don’t be afraid. You can always make it better. This is what product designers, and product design teams should be thinking when designing experiences. Many companies/teams try to nail it the first…

Ditch the Printouts, Prototype Instead

Back in the day, I used to assemble my wireframes and designs into a presentation deck, printed it all out, and then reviewed the work with my team/clients. Many designers still do this today, and…

Systematic Design

I’ve always approached design in a sys­tem­atic way. Think­ing about things in basic pieces that together form other pieces. I remem­ber assem­bling those plas­tic car mod­els when I was a kid, and…