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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004. What does that mean?

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Tech philosopher Alex Wolf on designing harmonious technology

Intercom, Inc.

Unpacking this central conundrum is at the heart of Alex Wolf’ s work – the self-described “consumer-facing anthropologist” has made a career by thinking deeply and talking widely about issues related to the pervasive role of technology in modern life. She asks what are the risks involved in “outsourcing” so many of our skills to technology.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). This has been my ironclad rule since 2016, at three hypergrowth companies, while PMing multiple teams at once. “Fairness” isn’t coming.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. product marketing, user research, content design, etc.). Other functions could be added depending on availability/resourcing (e.g.

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Erika Hall on the importance of conversation in design

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to designing digital systems, there is always a risk of forgetting there will be humans involved and, as a result, making things more robotic than realistic. Here are five quick takeaways: Conversational design as a concept is about looking at human conversation as a model for all interactions with digital systems.

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Design Ethics – Can We Solve Social Problems With Design?

UX Studio: Product Management

The British dystopian series, Black Mirror envisions our worst nightmares about technology. Relations between technology and design. Undoubtedly, as data-driven systems become a bigger part of our lives, we also notice more when they fail. This is when Facebook auto-tags your photos with friends’ names.

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19 Curated SaaS Product Marketing Examples For Every Stage Of The User Journey

Userpilot

Looking for some SaaS Product Marketing examples you could implement to drive growth for your product ? There are some best practices you need to follow when it comes to a SaaS marketing strategy that works – it's not enough to simply copy-paste what other SaaS companies are doing. Use in-app Checklists to guide your users.