Why product creators must hold seemingly contradictory concepts in their heads at all times to manifest their dreams.
When I speak with product teams and their leaders, it’s the topic of prioritization comes up most frequently.
Prioritization is hard because there is a constant tension between doing what is immediately urgent versus what’s good for the long-term outcomes of the business. …
Putting yourself in teacher mode forces you outside of your internal monolog and into the realm of understanding.
Jeff Hunter talks about confusion as the moment when you stand at the crossroads of opportunity. When you lean into that feeling and ask “what is this confusion teaching me?” something magical happens. Fear and frustration are replaced with excitement.
Confusion is learning.
For many of us, the confusion starts…
We’re rushing to the finish line without asking why or how it’ll improve product value or team health.
For years I was focused on how product teams increase velocity but now I think it's a waste of time and energy.
I was wrong.
Unlike the “Move Fast and Break Things” mantra of the early internet boom, velocity seemed to be the more mature way to measure team success…
Product management appears to be full of contradictions and conundrums, but it’s not as messy as it seems.
Product management is confusing. Sometimes you need to use the voice of the customer as the source of truth, and sometimes you don’t. One day you’re striving for high-fidelity design perfection, the next day a hand-drawn sketch will do.
There’s no single PM recipe because generic answers ignore the context…
We, the leaders, are stuck in a self-perpetuating doom loop with no one to blame but ourselves.
As a long-time CEO and now working closely with senior leaders across our portfolio of Fortune 1000 customers, I can safely say that all problems are who, not what problems. And most of those who’s are leaders.
To be clear, my focus as a transformation leader and author has been…
Why making great product teams is so hard, and what leading companies are doing differently to create high-performance teams that trust each other.
Our Design Transformation team at InVision works with household brands to help them achieve their product creation ambitions. That gives us almost unprecedented access to the Fortune 500’s product teams and the leaders that guide them.
What we know without a doubt is that these organizations — like Amazon, Starbucks…
My planet has been circling around the InVision sun for several years now, so in some ways, it was inevitable that I’d join the team full-time. As an early adopter of the prototyping approach to design, my relationship with InVision started with the product.
How To Intentionally Design A Money Making Product Machine
Design Is Good For Business
The good news is that Design makes businesses money. The bad news is that not everyone knows how to apply that to their business.
“My board doesn’t want me to do user testing because they say there’s no ROI on that type of work” — Director of Product who’d prefer…
Finding early adoption and ongoing product loyalty can be accelerated by getting product people involved in sales.
Disclaimer: This article holds mostly true for all products but is especially true of B2B and complex products with a complex sales cycle.
I’m Dead Serious
If you just want to kick the twitter hornet’s nest, tweet “Do designers need to code?” A virtual turdstorm will follow. …
The discipline of writing a long-form design brief might make you a better designer.
My goal here is to suggest a better way to write a design brief. By better, I mean, can we ask questions that will give us a better outcome. Five minutes is the time it takes to present or share the brief, not write it, and certainly not to discuss…
