Every now and again we have a trawl through our MedApps slack channels to grab a few interesting articles, pictures and links that we are sharing. It’s a quick peak at some of the things we are interested in at the moment and a few things to keep the team sane in some… interesting times!

Product Development #Randoms

An insight into the Intercom product development process. We’ve been doing quite a lot of investigation recently into better product development processes and found this was an interesting read. An interesting look at how product development in software evolves and the ways to keep focused and building fast.

Lessons learned from scaling a product team

There’s lots written about how you should build software, but few concrete examples of the messy reality as implemented by startups. Here’s our process.

A good look at researching product market fit, and another way to collect and integrate feedback and pain points into feature and product development.

Rahul Vohra Shares Superhuman’s Product Market Fit Framework

Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it.

Health #Randoms

When Rob and Tom first met they talked about evaluation and benefits. A lot more attention being paid to it, and potentially more standards. At Med App we’re trying to take a more proactive approach.

The Business Case For Rigorous Evaluation Of Mobile Health Apps | Health Affairs Blog

Without rigorous evaluation, it will be impossible to distinguish mobile health apps with the potential to transform human health from those that more closely resemble 21st-century snake oil.

Design #Randoms

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology” – Steve Jobs at WWDC in 1997

Parenting #Randoms

With some expectant Med App offspring on the way there has also been some intense discussion around naming these additions to humanity, and also some concern over the IQ levels (not even out of the womb yet!)

Top bogan baby names for 2021 revealed

Every year, I think my annual bogan baby names list will be the last because surely I’ve covered every bogan name in Australia.

Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests, study finds

Children born during the pandemic score markedly lower on standard measures of verbal, motor, and overall cognitive ability, US researchers have found. In a longitudinal study of 672 children from Rhode Island that has run since 2011, those born after the pandemic began showed results on the Mullen…

Dad days: how more gender-equal parental leave would improve the lives of Australian families

Paid parental leave should be substantially boosted for fathers and partners, to support men to be more engaged in the early years of their children’s lives.