David Dollar, now CEO at Convox, worked on many of Heroku’s developer-facing tools, including the API, command line client (CLI), foreman, Heroku toolbelt, and many others.
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Product Discovery & User Research Techniques
In this panel, Opsee’s cofounder and cohost of popular DX podcast Don’t Make me Code, Steve Boak will interview folks from Twilio, Pantheon and Heroku on what it’s like to run an efficient product discovery process including research and survey techniques, user feedback loops, and challenges in defining new features.
Don't Make Me Code Ep. #11, Dogfooding
In this episode of Don’t Make Me Code, David and Steve have Liz Bennett in the studio. Liz is a Senior Software Engineer at Loggly, a SaaS based logging company. The three discuss the many benefits of dogfooding as well as some unique-to-developer-tools pitfalls of using your own product to build itself.
Don't Make Me Code Ep. #1, Introducing Steve and David
In this first episode, Steve and David discuss the origins of the term DX, they share their thoughts on what makes a great developer experience, and they talk about some of the challenges they face when designing developer facing products. Read more about DX from Steve in a great post published yesterday titled Let’s Talk About Developer Experience (DX) Design. Steve dives further into the unique challenges that make DX different from UX. You can follow the show on twitter @dontmakemecode and email Stephen and David at dmmc@heavybit.com to suggest a topic or guest for the show.