FreelanceCTO recommends the following tools and resources to help you accelerate your Technology development.
Architecture, Design, and UX Tools
- Balsamiq Mockups is fast becoming the lingua franca for mockup and wireframe development.
- Keynotopia offers a set of templates for UI design and mockup creation for practically every platform on the market – Mac, PC, iPhone, Android, etc. The templates are vector-based and work in popular environments like Keynote, PowerPoint, and OpenOffice.
- Need documentation templates? Need help putting together a nice wireframe? Check out our post on Eightshapes’ Unify framework.
Books
The Art of Scalability by Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher
- This is a must-have book for any CTO or senior Technology manager. John flagged it as his 2010 Book of the Year.
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities by Amy Jo Kim
- Building an online community? This is your new bible.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
The definitive guide to Customer Development
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- Patrick Vlaskovits “cheat sheet” for “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”
