Video: Design as a Competitive Advantage
Imagine you’re building a new product – say a Death Star. And it’s solving a particularly pesky problem – getting rid of Rebel Scum. You don’t really care what it looks like or if it’s particularly...
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How I built the same MVP 3 times, across 3 continents in 3 weeks
I built the same product three times. It wasn’t an act of insanity. It was my way to get my product ready in three weeks. Before I get to that, let me backtrack a little. It was the 1st of March 2013...
View ArticleVideo: Smart People, Dumb Objects, Networked Environments
The world, we are told, will become a vast ‘eco-system’ of conversant devices, buildings and virtual environments. But somewhere behind all these ‘machines’ are people, and it’s the people that,...
View ArticleVideo: Thingdom Come
Cheap sensors are readily available, data is easy to gather, analyse and visualise, and there are people and companies interested, and cash available for experimentation. However, in this age of...
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Getting onboarding right from the start with user investment
Photo credit: LendingMemo.com Startups have always obsessed over VC investment, but now the savviest of them are paying as much attention to user investment. User investment is an umbrella term that...
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Why You Should Design Products for Yourself and No One Else
If you’re interested in becoming an entrepreneur or an inventor and making money from something you thought of and designed then there is one thing you need above everything else before you can begin:...
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Creating New Value
Why is it that some products take off while others fall flat? There are many tactical reasons we can point to such as timing, competition, or product-market fit. Fundamentally though, there is one...
View ArticleKathy Sierra – Building badass users
Kathy Sierra, who created one of the largest (and friendliest) developer communities, javaranch.com and the bestselling Head First tech book series for O’Reilly, talks about the sociological side of...
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Nir Eyal – Building habit-forming products
Nir Eyal, the author and entrepreneur behind the book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, talks about the secrets behind the success of companies like Facebook and Twitter. What is it that...
View ArticleIrene Au – Design is as important as technology
Irene Au, operating partner at Khosla Ventures, led the user experience team at Google for six years and the user experience and design team at Yahoo! for eight years. In this talk she looks at how the...
View ArticleAlex Osterwalder – Designing your Value Proposition
In this video, Alex Osterwalder- the author and inventor of the Business Model Canvas, a tool to visualise, challenge and reinvent business models – talks about his next book: Value Proposition Design....
View ArticleVideo: Design as a Competitive Advantage
Imagine you’re building a new product – say a Death Star. And it’s solving a particularly pesky problem – getting rid of Rebel Scum. You don’t really care what it looks like or if it’s particularly...
View ArticleBeing Human in a Digital World: Lessons from the intersection of tech & culture
Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and leads Intel Labs’ interaction and experience research. She uses qualitative and quantitative research into what people want, their desires, hopes and dreams to...
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Stop Thinking About User Interface: A Product Approach for Designing Products...
One month ago I subscribed to Digit, a service that promises a way to “save money without thinking about it”. The way it works is simple – you submit your mobile number, link your bank account and...
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Video: ‘Understanding Understanding’ in Design for Behavioural Change
In March, ProductTank focused on the role of psychology in developing and managing products. In this video Dr Dan Lockton, a visiting research tutor in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal...
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Video: Jon Kolko – Where Do Great New Products Come From?
Do great new products come from vision, process or hard work? In this awesome talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2015, Jon Kolko, Founder and Director of Austin Center for Design, VP of Product...
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Video: Tom Chi on Rapid Prototyping & Product Management
Tom Chi has practiced rapid prototyping for over 15 years, on everything from software to hardware, organisational design to entrepreneurship. And a lot of the lessons he has learned in rapid...
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Nilan Peiris, Dana Chisnell and Martina King Complete the Mind the Product...
As if product leaders from Spotify, Google Ventures, Microsoft and HotelTonight as well as the founder of User Interface Engineering and the Web Psychologist weren’t enough awesomeness on one stage,...
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4 Design Skills Every Product Manager Should Have
The importance of design is a common refrain these days in the tech industry — to the point of almost being a cliche. Whether in the consumer (Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox) or enterprise (Slack) space,...
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Video: Ryan Singer’s Product Development Tools
Ryan is the Product Manager for Basecamp, and joined us on stage at Mind the Product San Francisco to share some of his experiences and the tools he’s designed to stay sane in that job. The challenge...
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