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Notes on Indi Young’s When to be Hasty with Product Research
(Indi posted this on medium.com on 4/18/16, link here.) Indi’s post is multi-faceted and great, I recommend reading it (link above) since I didn’t capture everything in my notes! Takeaway: Run studies...
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Notes on Erik K’s Designing Complex Products
(Erik posted this article on medium.com on 4/13/16, link here.) Complexity in product design has two sources: The complexity of managing people and opinions The complexity of designing the product...
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Notes on David J Bland’s 7 Things I ‘ve Learned About Lean Startup
(From David’s 7/25/15 post on medium.com, link here) After 15 years advising startups and corporations, here are David’ top 7 learnings MVPs are optimized for learning, not scaling. Start at the Learn...
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Lean Product Management Manifesto by Melissa Perri
(From a post on Melissa’s blog, link here.) Melissa boils down the complexity of product management to its essence: Customer problems and needs over internal requirements Data driven experiments over...
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Notes on Amy Jo Kim’s thoughts about Slack and gamification
(From Amy Jo’s 10/22/15 post on Medium called Bots, MODs & Multiplayer Co-op: why Slack is game-like — NOT gamified, link here.) Slack started off life as a game but failed to take off. So the...
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Love Esther Derby’s 7 Ps of Profound Change
So simple yet covers it all! Understand the problem. What is preserving the pattern? What possibilities exist? What principles apply? Design probes. What might you perceive about how your probe is...
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Notes on Paul Campillo’s How to Validate Your Next Big Idea
(from Paul’s post on typeforum.com, link here) Paul has organized the process of creating an MVP into 3 stages: Market validation Idea validation MVP validation Paul thinks numbers 1 and 2 can be...
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Notes on Danforth’s Conducting a Solid UX Competitive Analysis
(From a post on danforth.co’s blog, link here.) Do a competitive analysis to: Understand what your competition is doing in the space to handle usability and UX and where you might find an edge for your...
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Notes on Maria Giudice’s Remaking the Making Company: Moving from Product to...
(From Maria’s session at EUX 16: The Politics of Innovation) Maria’s identified several key themes to affecting change in large orgs: Build community Design isn’t a noun—it’s an active verb, a...
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Quickie: Disney’s Creative Strategy (for idea development)
There are 3 main stages in Disney’s Creative Strategy: Focus on creativity: share creative ideas and solutions without worrying about how they would get implemented. (Perhaps try the 100 Post It...
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Notes on 3-12-3 Brainstorming
(From a 10/27/13 post by Dave Gray on gamestorming.com, link here) The name derives from the amount of time devoted to each portion of the exercise If possible, boil concepts to be brainstormed down...
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Notes on Melissa Perri’s Rethinking the Product Roadmap
(from a 5/19/14 blog post by Melissa Perri, link to her blog here) Melissa argues the the product roadmap needs to be replaced with the problem roadmap Product roadmaps: Are built on arbitrary...
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Notes on Cynefin for Designers
(from James O’Brien’s 6/26/16 post on medium.com, link here) First things first–cynefin is a Welch word that’s pronounced K’nevn. Thanks to James’ post, I can see more clearly how I could use this in...
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Notes on Melissa Perri’s Creating Effective MVP Experiments
(from Melissa’s slideshow for Lean UX NYC 2014, which I was at but somehow missed summarizing, link here) This summarizes only a portion of Melissa’s great talk—check out the link for more great...
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Notes on Paul Adam’s Future of Product Design
(From a podcast between Amy Jo Kim and Paul Adams on Amy’s site, getting2alpha.com, link here) Paul runs product at a fast-growing customer communications startup called Intercom Paul and his...
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Notes on Scott Belsky’s Crafting the First Mile of Product
(from Scott’s 6/21/16 post on medium.com, link here) Over time, product leaders can become more focused on a small group of existing power users than on widening the group of new users and their “first...
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Notes on Marty Cagan’s Root Causes of Product Failure
(from Marty’s talk at 2015’s Mind the Product, posted on Vimeo, link here) This quick note only catches the last ten minutes of his 50 min presentation, which was all good stuff—use the link the watch...
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Notes on LukeW’s Conversations@Google 2016
(From Part 1 a 2-part talk LukeW gave at Google, uploaded 10/5/16, link here) Increase in mobile time spent: 8% small phone 85% on a medium phone 334% increase on phablets 81% increase on small tablets...
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Notes on Jim Kalbach’s Practical Service Design Webinar
(The 10/20/16 webinar was hosted by practicalservicedesign.com’s Erik Flowers and Megan Erin Miller, link here) Jim starts off by giving a quick history of service design thinking and recommends some...
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Notes on Dave Malouf’s UX Strategy for Design Leadership: A 4-Step Guide
(From a post on uxpin.com, link here) Design leaders can’t make assumptions and expect to reach goals Design leaders need to: Have a Purpose and set goals for achieving it (like hiking to the top of a...
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