Unifying icons at scale: lessons from a growing engineering tool
How fragmented icon libraries introduced friction to the platform—and what it took to unify nine of them into a single coherent visual system.
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Unifying icons at scale: lessons from a growing engineering tool
How fragmented icon libraries introduced friction to the platform—and what it took to unify nine of them into a single coherent visual system.
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From many shades to one family: the design story behind our colors update
Discover how SPREAD AI's cohesive color alignment enhances user experience across their product suite, ensuring a consistent, intuitive, and polished interface for all users.
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Integrating AI into product workflows: Insights from Future Product Days 2025
Key learnings from Future Product Days 2025 on integrating AI into digital products: Focus on delivering real user value rather than shiny features; Design interaction patterns that support collaboration instead of command; Manage expectations and protect user trust through clear UX and strong user control.
Read MoreSPREAD completes SOC 2 Type II Examination
SPREAD achieves SOC 2 Type II examination, validating enterprise-grade security and organizational excellence. Our company ensures sensitive data is protected with rigorous controls and best practices, building confidence, trust, and faster onboarding for customers.
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A product that works isn’t enough: why thoughtful UX defines customer happiness
Discover why thoughtful UX is crucial for customer happiness, going beyond mere functionality to create intuitive, seamless, and delightful product experiences that ensure user satisfaction and retention.
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The Ontology Shortcut That Costs You Tomorrow: Why Custom Schemas Create New Data Silos
Custom ontologies may seem like a shortcut, but they create new silos that slow future innovation. This article by Eric Scholz, Group Product Manager at SPREAD AI, explains why mapping your data to a shared, industry-standard knowledge graph is the only sustainable path to true interoperability and reusable digital twins.
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Life at SPREAD: Becoming a Product Manager – How I moved from UX Research to Product, almost over night
A personal reflection on the sudden shift from UX Research to Product Management - the challenges, mindset changes, and lessons learned along the way. From feeling overwhelmed to finding purpose, it’s a story about trust, curiosity, and redefining what it means to lead a team with clarity.
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Read faster, decide faster: why sentence case delivers clarity in complex engineering software
Discover why SPREAD AI standardizes on sentence case across its platform. Design Lead Ricardo Trindade explains how this simple UX choice reduces cognitive load, improves global readability, and builds a calm, trustworthy product experience for engineers.
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One Platform, one experience: Introducing SPREAD’s new sidebar
By the end of this quarter, SPREAD’s Product team will introduce a persistent sidebar across the entire platform. In detail, this means that no matter inside which of the applications users are working on, they will always have a way to switch between different contexts seamlessly. Navigation becomes faster and more direct, keeping Engineers focused on their work without extra steps through the launcher.
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Closing the Feedback Loop: What Europe Can Learn from China’s Software-Driven Auto Strategy
What makes Chinese carmakers so fast at software updates? Christian Ringwald from SPREAD AI highlights the role of feedback loops and how Europe can benefit from similar practices.
Read MoreSPREAD completes SOC 2 Type I Examination
SPREAD achieves SOC 2 Type I examination, validating enterprise-grade security and organizational excellence. Our company ensures sensitive data is protected with rigorous controls and best practices, building confidence, trust, and faster onboarding for customers.
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