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12 Customer Support Tools You Absolutely Need To Have in 2021

In a world that is so technologically-driven, having the right customer support tools is essential to delivering great customer service, keeping employee health in check, and gaining an edge over your competitors. With the range of support tools available today — one for shared inbox, one for bug tracking, another one to allow for inter-team collaboration, and yet another one for project management — how do you identify the tools that you really need?

Crayons: Coloring web experiences, the Freshworks way

If you have worked on building user interfaces for a large project, you would probably have learned the importance of component libraries. They contain a set of ready-to-use components that help you build UI fast and also maintain consistency across the entire project. Building a consistent and seamless user experience is hard. This is where component libraries can help.

7 Tips to Increase Productivity When Working From Home

Don’t work from bed. You want your bed to be a place of peace and calm, not work stress. Liz Grossman Kitoyi The situation we are in right now, the pandemic and our so-called “new normal”, has made some drastic changes to the global work scenario. Many global employers opt for work-from-home to save our economy from a new depression. Little did we know that we’d be facing a slightly different depression. Yes, I know, working from home sounds peachy.

How to Send Emails with Node.js [3 Different Ways + Code Tutorials]

Almost every web application needs the functionality to send transactional emails in response to various triggers. Events like account registration, password resets, purchase receipts, and user verification are among the many tasks today’s applications need to accomplish via email. These emails are crucial for notifying users of important updates and enabling key user workflows in your application. This post explores three different options for sending email from within a Node.js app.

How Mentorship Programs Can Help Your Workplace

What if I told you there was a simple way to increase productivity and communication within your organization? To create more connections and relationships that will improve your work environment, bring in mentorship. When it comes to mentorship, the connections made by a mentor and mentee goes well beyond just a connection.

Webinar - How to find, understand and measure your product-market fit webinar with Pendo and Zendesk

Achieving product-market fit is an important early milestone in a technology company’s long-term growth trajectory. In fact, many venture capitalists won’t invest in a company without evidence of product-market fit. And for good reason: How can you justify putting resources toward innovation or strategic initiatives if you can’t first prove that your product has enough of a potential market to sustain itself and, ideally, generate profit?

How we crafted a design system for Freshworks

“A design system acts as the connective tissue that holds together your entire platform.” —Drew Bridewell, Design Specialist Digital solutions are increasingly becoming more intricate with the rise in customer expectations, and product and design teams are transforming their approach to design—experimenting with style guides and pattern libraries—in order to create inclusive design systems that all users can appreciate.

Quick Prototyping Workshop X Miro Startup Program

In this VMUG we partner with Maria Jose Segura and Gregory Pepper from UNLEASH Community, a leading social entrepreneurs network. To learn how to build a user’s journey diagram, map assumptions, identify the prototype's requirements, define what to prototype, and ways to do so effectively. Prototyping can save precious resources, reveal assumptions, and biases you have about your ideas, uncover new insights about your users and inspire your stakeholders.