Medium is the largest platform for independent authors to share their experiences and knowledge. If you are reading my post, you know how useful the content that is published here is.

But there is one problem: there is too much information to read. Very often I subscribe to a lot of interesting channels, but I read very few of them. I save a lot of articles, but I never go back to them. Does this sound familiar to you? Then this post is for you.

I want to share the channels on Medium that I read all the time. These channels deal with 3 areas: Product Management, User Research & UX & CX, Startup Development.

Product Management.

In this section the authors write about the development and management of products at different stages of development: from idea to implementation. I especially like the way different specialists describe the processes they use in their work. You can take pieces of information from different sources and adapt the best of them to your tasks.

Agile Insider is a channel that describes practices related to research, analytics, processes. I like to read this channel because they write a lot about tools. Tools are ways to simplify or optimize current processes with software. Very often we have to do a lot by hand, even though there have long been programs that can do it much better. For example, the Product Board tool, which allows you to automate the collection of insights from different customer communication channels.

Serious Scrum is a channel where you talk more about processes. I like this channel very much, because you can look at how different companies organize their work: what methods they use, how they combine the tools, how they build up communication, etc.

Product Coalition is a channel about product development, which often features a lot of cases from different companies and specialists. Case studies are a great way to learn from other people’s mistakes and practices: you just look at what the expert did, and then project it onto your processes in order to improve them.

User Research & UX & CX.

In this section, the authors write about the development of customer and user experience: research, design, communication, feedback. Those channels that are present in this section — I consider key for me, because I am a researcher. It is fundamentally important for me to see trends in the development of research processes and design. From these channels I took a lot: building research processes; service design; building UX / CX strategy in the company; different tricks and techniques that help me in my work.

UX Colletive is the largest community of people immersed in UX. I’m attracted to this channel because of the authors who write in it. They are the strongest experts in the world. I constantly open this channel to get better and progress in my field, and I read successful practices from strong experts.

UX Planet is my favorite channel, which, by the way, I often publish my posts on. I like the variety of topics in it. Everything about UX, CX and design is there. It’s an absolutely versatile channel where you can find an answer to almost any question.

Meta Research — Meta’s (ex. Facebook) blog where they share their research frameworks, tricks, and approaches. It’s incredibly interesting to read, since Meta is one of the most expensive companies in the world, which is famous for its strong specialists in all areas.

UXR Microsoft is Microsoft’s blog about research processes. Similar to Meta — it contains a lot of useful material from the strongest experts in the industry.

The Full Stack Researcher is a channel about different kinds of research. It is full of approaches to organizing research processes. Separately, I would like to point out that this channel covers different types of research: quantitative, qualitative, UX-testing, desk research, etc. If you want to improve your knowledge of known methods or see new ways of doing it — you should definitely take a look there.

Tomer Sharon is not a channel, but an independent author. I know the post is about channels, but I couldn’t help but mention this author. Tomer is an expert who was one of the first to touch upon and implement the processes of democratizing research. I recommend reading his writings.

Startup Development.

In this section the authors write about the development of their projects, which are at an early stage. If you work in a corporation, then don’t jump to the conclusion that this section is not suitable for you. There are different ways and approaches to accelerate growth, unconventional methods and much more. Startups are always trying to save money on everything and do everything fast, so it’s very interesting to read about their approaches and organization of product development.

The Startup is a channel for those interested in how startups work. Independent authors share tips: how to launch a product quickly without a budget; how to test an idea quickly; how to attract the first audience to your product; no-budget marketing, and more. Here you’ll find a tremendous amount of useful examples and practices from current entrepreneurs who are divesting their businesses.

Entrepreneur’s Handbook is a useful channel for entrepreneurs where you can find life stories, paths from idea to full-fledged business, many useful resources. I always read this channel, as there are a lot of real-life examples. You can read and learn from other people’s experiences. Very often they share their failures and failures there. Entrepreneurs do this with the goal that readers will look at their mistakes and not repeat them. It’s a great way to share experiences.

Sequía Capital Publication is a channel for publications from the most influential investment fund. In their articles, they share interesting projects that they invest in, write about trends in the venture capital market as well as growing and promising markets. It will be most useful to those who are just looking for an idea — there you can see how to evaluate the market and its prospects.

Conclusions.

There is a lot of information and the most important thing that we can do not to «drown» in this flow is to filter the content.

You should not read everything at once. The key task of consumption of professional content is application in practice. The more quality and informed material we read, the more likely it is that we will get a useful return on our use.