Best Practices for Localisation
Rahel Bailie (Chief Knowledge Officer at Scroll LLP) describes content as the “new front door” to your business. From the home page to the error message on your checkout- content enables customers to...
View ArticleHow to Build Great Products in the AI World
What does technology do to society? When technology and human ingenuity gets together, everybody in society profits. If you look at graphs of GDP / capita over long time periods (850 years+), the trend...
View ArticleProduct Management is About Making Mistakes
Once upon a time, I met a product manager of a company who was leading a freemium model product, with some success. He regularly interviewed users to work out their needs, he gathered and analyzed...
View ArticleDesign Disruptors (ProductTank NYC)
Design Disruptors was released by InVision in 2016. The film was created to highlight some of the world’s most influential companies that are putting user centered design first, transforming the way...
View ArticleGetting into Design Sprints – an AMA Interview
I recently had the pleasure of taking part in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) discussion in the Mind the Product Slack community, where we talked about Design Sprints, how I take my coffee (a cortado), and my...
View ArticleNetflix Abstracts the Team out of Product Design
This week I started watching Netflix’s new show Abstract. It’s a beautifully produced documentary that follows the achievements of world renowned designers across a wide range of design disciplines,...
View ArticleSeven Simple Steps to Stress-Free Prioritisation
Job stories, backlog items, workshop ideas, roadmap features… it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of potential directions you can take a product in. And it’s natural to want order in this chaos....
View ArticleThe Power of Bad Product Ideas
Steve Portigal challenges product managers to re-think the idea-generation process by inviting in bad ideas. In brain-storming sessions, we frequently see two surges in ideas. The first is where the...
View ArticleFocusing On Your Brand Will Produce a Better Product
We all want to build products which connect with our users and drive engagement. In this talk, Jesus Ramirez, VP Product at Tallwave Capital, explains how effectively leveraging brand in your products...
View ArticleWhat’s the ROI of Innovation? – David Binetti
David Binetti is a six-time entrepreneur, having served on the founding team of companies ranging from consumer (QFN, later Intuit’s Quicken.com), to industrial (Arch Rock, acquired by Cisco), to...
View ArticleTaking a Product from Conception to Delivery
In this talk I gave at ProductTank Singapore towards the end of 2016, I parsed the steps required to take a product from conception to delivery, with a strong slant toward the business of products....
View ArticleWhat is the ROI of Design? – Nate Clinton (ProductTank San Francisco)
Nate Clinton works as the Managing Director for Cooper in their San Francisco studio. Before Cooper, Nate has held product and design leadership positions at StarMine, Thomson Reuters, and BuildZoom....
View ArticleManaging – not Just Maintaining – a Product Backlog
Or Three Ways Product Owners can Stay on top of Scrum 2016 was a big year for the Justinmind product development team. We shipped a new feature every month or so, tackled bug fixes and upgraded the...
View ArticleBuilding a challenger bank the Monzo way – Ole Mahrt (ProductTank London)
In 2013, the Bank of England scaled back the rules and regulations involved in starting a bank. They hoped to kick-start technological innovation within the banking industry through increasing...
View ArticleUser Research – Making it Work in Government – Katy Arnold (ProductTank London)
Katy Arnold, Head of User Research and Design at The Home Office, talks to ProductTank London about making User Research Work in Government. The civil service has traditionally been focussed on moving...
View ArticleWhy you Need a Sense of Urgency in Product
When I was doing my basic training in the military one of the things our instructors continually stressed was a sense of urgency. Nothing was to be rushed, but equally, nothing was to be done at a...
View ArticleUser Research Tools and Methodologies – Morag McLaren (ProductTank London)
Morag McLaren Product Manager at Whatusersdo.com talks to ProductTank London about User Research Tools and Methodologies. The Context & Timing of Research Changes the Results you get You need to...
View ArticleDual-Track Agile: Why Messy Leads to Innovation
What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. You start with a discovery track to find out if a...
View ArticleIs Your Chatbot Artificially Intelligent?
The chatter at SXSW this year was all about the chatbot. Several sessions and a lot of side conversations were aimed at helping companies understand what chatbots are and how to use them. I got the...
View ArticleEffective Product Psychology & Design – Jerome Ribot (ProductTank London)
Co-founder and former Creative Director at Ribot – a design agency in Brighton – Jerome Ribot is also the creator of Cognitive Lode, a resource that distills the latest behavioural research into...
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