René DeAnda
About Me

I love to create. I'm a product manager at Microsoft with a passion for learning and building. From self-taught coding to crafting the popular Delightful gratitude journal app, I'm on a mission to innovate and make a positive impact.

Family, friends, and creating things to help other people are the most important things to me.

PRODUCT STUFF

What are your sources of inspiration?

When I started making mobile applications in 2015 I was a bit lost when it came to design. I started just paying attention to the applications I was using everyday on my phone that I loved. The app that I believe was ahead of its time with amazing UI/UX was the Wunderlist task management application. I loved the colors and functional design of the app. Over time, I've continued to stay up to date with Google and Apple design standards while keeping an eye out for apps that don't exactly adhere to the standards and in some ways shape the future design standards.

Beyond the surface, the most important source of inspiration to develop better apps is your users. My Delightful users have given me direct feedback that over time made me a much better product maker. As a product maker, it's awesome if you can be the user of your product but you have to get out of your own way and be conscious that you are not the only user of your product.