Ryan Singer is one of the founding members of 37Signal’s Basecamp team. Today, Ryan's consulting company, Felt Presence, helps people solve problems between their product and engineering teams. He credits OmniGraffle for being his brainstorming partner each step along the way.
On this episode, we find out how Ryan's design, programming, and strategy experience led to an innovative approach (and book), called “Shape up,” to bridge the gap between product and technical teams. Tune in and learn how Ryan's OmniGraffle expertise contributed to his success and how "Shape Up" helps humanize the software development process and ensure team projects get successfully completed.
Some other people, places, and things mentioned in this episode:
- A shorthand for designing UI flows
- Breadboarding in Shape Up
- Small tools for shaping
- Shaping in a Nutshell
- Felt Pesence
- Shaping in Real Life course
- Bob Moesta
- OmniGraffle
- Miro
- OmniFocus
- Mailchimp
- Convertkit
- Hey
- Remix
- Netlify
- Whimsical
- Basecamp