product management Building Tability, problem first Building a product and a company with a thoughtful approach to the problems. Join our founding team as a software engineer.
pricing Pricing Update: Options for Small Teams, Support for Big Teams, Affordable for All Teams Announcing: Our latest pricing options, featuring a new low-cost Starter plan!
okrs Everybody Hates OKRs OKRs are designed for managers and CEOs. But it takes more than an eager leader to make OKRs work across an org. Our mission with Tability is to redesign OKRs to be for the team first, and get the love and adoption from the bottom up.
bootstrapping Why you should build your company website with no code How Tability is using Webflow to increase productivity and empower design and marketing to build more on their own.
outcomedriven ODT: Introducing Outcome Driven Teams Today we launched our new media platform, Outcome Driven Teams (or short, ODT), where we will be curating and publishing content from our favorite thought leaders in the OKRs and business planning world.
Design OKRs for UX Design Update: We have a new library of OKRs templates at https://tability.app/templates/design Design is subjective. Quantifying it and trying to measure it is an uphill battle from the start. Quite
Design June Design Update It's been a while since we've had a design update. To be totally honest, last month was a bit light in terms of NEW feature releases. However, while there hasn't been a lot
Design Building Better Brands: Brand Assets Basics As a start up, what are the basic things you need to help your brand look good and consistent? How do you do it on a bootstrapped budget? There are a few assets
Design Building Better Brands: Branding for start-ups Last week, I laid out a few ideas around building a successful and impactful modern brand – the key point being that your brand should be flexible, scalable, honest and unique to your company
Brand Building Better Brands: Brand is Culture Not Image Going back to what I said last week (Brand as a Living Thing), Brand is more than just a logo and some colors – a brand is everything we make, everything we do, everything
Building Better Brands: Empower Creativity It's springtime in Portland right now, so we have been busy propagating and repotting all our indoor plants; placing them in bigger pots as they start to outgrow their old ones. The pot
Design Building Better Brands: Brand as a Living Thing We often think about brand as a still image. A logo, a typeface, a color scheme. The portfolio culture we live in makes it seem this way. The hottest designers on your Instagram
Design Building Better Brands Over the past 8 years, I've worked as a brand designer for several different tech companies, on different levels of involvement. I've worked with teams like Color Genomics, Cloudflare as an outside consultant
Design Finding the right words Today we worked on a new feature but the challenges were more about what to call it than the functionality.
remoteteams Working and quarantining Working from home is not new to me. I've been basically working from home for about 6 years now. This is, however, the first time I've been stuck at home for work and
remoteteams How we work as a fully remote team We recently wrote about how remote habits are good for colocated teams too. We're living in a really strange time and we feel extremely fortunate that adapting to our current environment has been
futureofwork A team first approach OKR tools optimize for leadership, and forgot about the rest of the organization needs. Managers love you, but users hate the tool. This needs to change. We are focused on making your team happy first.
start up Why company values are important, even for a start up Fundraising, interacting with investors, pitching your product are all parts of a startup that no one who's starting a startup wants to do. We're designers, developers, product people; we want to focus on
A brand new Tability A Brand New Tability - Update 01 In our first update in our redesign, we're talking about mobile friendliness and how we're planning on building our product from the foundation up, with it in mind.
Design Introducing: A Brand New Tability Over the next few months, we're rolling out a new and improved Tability. We will be posting regular updates on the redesign here on our blog, so you can stay informed and add comments/feedback as we go. Stay tuned!
product teams It's not just what, it's also when Sometimes we give our users all the right answers at all the wrong time. It took us a while to realize this, but we got there.
Design Designing Tability – June Update Introducing a few new features to make goal tracking more engaging and intuitive
Design We can't not judge a book (or a tech startup) by it's cover Some reasons for investing in design early in your start up, and why it has worked for us.
focus The art of not being busy We all want to be busy all the time, but is being busy really equivalent to being productive?
Design Designing for business outcomes: Great, but is it so simple? The truth to “Designing for Business Outcomes,” is that it’s exactly what we should all be doing, but we don’t have the tools, systems, or mentality in place to make an outcome-driven culture viable in an organization. So how do we solve this?