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Every post on the Product Rally blog tagged Guide: shortlists, guides and comparisons built from tools the board voted up.

6 posts

Guide3 min read

How to run a swipe file you actually open again

Saving inspiration is easy and finding it later is the whole problem. How to file references so they come back when you need them, and three Mac apps that keep the file on your own disk.

Guide2 min read

How to choose an icon set for a product, and switch later in one file

Grid, weights, coverage, licence and the switching cost. The five checks before an icon set goes into a design system, with the sets that pass them.

Guide2 min read

How to make a launch video in an afternoon

A thirty second recording does more for a launch than three screenshots. The four steps, the tools for each, and what to skip.

Guide3 min read

What a launch page needs before the day, and what it does not

The eight things a launch page has to carry, in the order a visitor meets them. Everything else is what you do after the first hundred visitors.

Guide3 min read

Free icon sets: what the licence actually lets you do

MIT, CC BY, SIL and the ones with a catch. How to read an icon licence in two minutes, and what happens when you get it wrong.

Guide3 min read

How to launch a product when nobody knows you yet

A first launch with no audience is a room problem, not a reach problem. What to do in the four weeks before the day, and on it.