As entertaining as these narratives are I find them to be very dangerous to both aspiring and current product designers. As entertaining as these narratives are I find them to be very dangerous to both aspiring and current product designers. MORE
Today’s consumers are quickly becoming dependent on a constant connection with information, entertainment and education, all only a tap away all day, every day. Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. Why is Designing for Emotion so Important? When we recall past experiences, we are not wired to remember the whole experience with total accuracy. MORE
Thanks to @bfgmartin and crew for organising an entertaining and inspiring #mtpcon. On Friday, September 8, we gathered nearly 1,600 passionate product people from 52 countries around the world to the iconic Barbican Hall for another dazzling #mtpcon. MORE
Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”. MORE
With our digital devices buzzing, world events demanding our attention, and more things to entertain us than ever before, it certainly seems harder to focus on what’s really important. Is the world more distracting? Sometimes it seems that way. MORE
Since then he’s had his share of successes and failures in a storied career spanning the US and Europe, and in this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product San Francisco he distills those 20 years into twelve key lessons. MORE
But resisting this craving for stimulation and entertainment allows me to enjoy my food: it’s amazing how tasty a simple sandwich is when we eat mindfully. What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment, to what is actually happening. MORE
Women want to come home after work, relax and be entertained and watch shows about themselves.” I was recently on a long haul flight and ended up whiling away my time watching random shows on the in-flight system. One of the shows I watched was a sitcom. I didn’t find it great (in fact I don’t remember chuckling at even one single joke) but I still ended up watching a bunch of episodes in a row. MORE
UX challenge: The other reality the patient enters should engage and entertain them enough to distract them from what’s going on in the hospital around them. I love designing healthcare UX. The health-tech sector is among the fastest growing in the world today, making the stakes super high. With innovation happening every day, what usability challenges come with it for UXers to solve? We made a list of the top six. We at UX studio have a long history with healthcare UX. MORE
In this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product London he shared some of his own stories. MORE
The proliferation of video consumption on a variety of devices is unsurprising when one considers the media vertical: Sports, entertainment, drama, gaming etc. How many times have you heard this phrase while watching a game on your phone: “Touchdown!!” ” (or GOAL!!) MORE
Goldratt’s classic will teach you to think in systems and constraints, plus it’s written like a novel so it’s much more entertaining than a textbook. Here are four product development “schools of thought” and the best books to read on each of them. MORE
The Phoenix Project is an entertaining novel with lessons for those who want to understand how manufacturing techniques can be applied to software. The Phoenix Project is a novel that seems too true—featuring too-familiar dysfunctions between marketing, development, and operations. MORE
The guest can be from any background – technology, entertainment, government, the arts. Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. MORE
We didn’t want to make something that was just there to entertain, or to make money and get users and be the next thing that everyone forgot a year later. For Duolingo, the world’s most downloaded education app, growth is fundamentally about retention. If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. MORE
Reveal valuable and entertaining content to others, Define ourselves to others, Grow and nurture relationships, Allow for self-fulfillment, Get the word out about brands and causes we like or support. What a buzzword, right?! Not really. Gamification in UX predates what we thought of as its beginnings. Even though the term “gamification” made its appearance in 2008, it didn’t gain popularity until 2010. It had popped into our lives long before we started to pay attention to it. “UX” MORE
Bobby Kotick, CEO of the gaming and entertainment giant with $4.66B in 2015 revenue, discusses evaluating talent, fostering a culture of innovation, leveraging IP, and more at [link]. MORE
I find it entertaining when people talk about how Agile and Lean and Kanban are all relatively new, untested, and revolutionary concepts. That’s because they’re none of those things — they’re simply descendants of ideas and concepts that have existed in manufacturing contexts for a half-century or more, just pitched in a different way, at […]. Product Management Agile Culture Do's Good PM Leadership Scrum MORE
Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”. MORE
Most hotel TV systems take you directly to a menu with lots of entertainment options like movies, games, music, and of course, TV. It’s the little things that matter most when it comes to raising the customer experience from good to great. Sometimes there’s no substitute for just being “the customer” yourself. As a bona fide road warrior, I spend more than my fair share of time in hotels. MORE
The proliferation of video consumption on a variety of devices is unsurprising when one considers the media vertical: Sports, entertainment, drama, gaming etc. How many times have you heard this phrase while watching a game on your phone: “Touchdown!!” ” (or GOAL!!) MORE
The book is a great and entertaining read. Brain Wiring (by Wellcome Images, CC licensed). In part 1 I introduced mental models and some reasons they are important. And I provided a few “general purpose” examples. MORE
Gibson Biddle has worked in product at several entertainment companies, such as Netflix, Mattel, and EA, as well as educational companies such as Chegg and The Learning Company. In his presentation, he discusses “wicked hard” decision-making and how it is a practiced art, and can be very easy with practice. He discusses all of these experiences through the lens of Netflix, where he was the Vice President of Product. A Brief History of Netflix. MORE
It's presented in a digestible, entertaining format, which I legit looked forward to working on each week. Product Institute is an online school for Product Managers looking to level up their skills. MORE
” I often help people set up their home entertainment centers and computers. A guy fell into a hole. A friend heard his cries for help and promptly jumped down into the hole too. The guy says, “What are you doing? Now we’re both stuck down here!” ” And the friend says, “Yes, but I’ve been down here before and I know the way out.” MORE
HyperCard found applications in the educational, entertainment, scientific, and many other industries. We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from Andrew Ofstad, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Humans are preternaturally skilled at amplifying their inherent abilities through tools. MORE
One surefire way to create a product that engages users and keeps them coming back is to create features with an entertaining element. MORE
Clay also raises the notion of an emotional job at play: “feel entertained while commuting.” To stay entertained on the commute, is a podcast a better solution than a milkshake? MORE
– it’s entertaining, but who’s keeping track of these forecasts? Dear readers, 2017 was a big year, where we got Trump’s first(!) year in office, a renaissance in interest around cryptocurrencies, Brexit, Puerto Rico, and oh yeah, things got a little crazy at Uber too. MORE
These kids have decided that they can get the entertainment content that they want via the Internet and so they no longer need to have either a telephone to their house or cable television. HBO has to change in order to survive, what can we learn from them? Image Credit: JasonParis 00. MORE
To set the context, media companies today face the huge challenge of staying relevant amid rapidly changing consumer behaviors, especially in regards to how teens and young adults get and watch their video entertainment. MORE
Limited” entertainment system is laughable. There was no entertainment system. This past year I took six trips to London. Five of those round trip flights were on Norwegian Air. I HATE Norwegian Air. Without fail, every one of my Norwegian Air flights were delayed at least 2.5 hours. MORE
And while it may feel like infographics are a dime a dozen, progressive media house Fast Company has figured out how to use them to inform (and entertain) its C-level audience with original and compelling content. It seems there is a never-ending competition for customer mindshare. We all want prospective customers to consider our brand. But we also want them to know who we are and what we offer long before they make a purchase. MORE
HyperCard found applications in the educational, entertainment, scientific, and many other industries. We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from Andrew Ofstad, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Humans are preternaturally skilled at amplifying their inherent abilities through tools. MORE
Social , satisfying curiosity or providing social interaction and entertainment. MORE
The 2017 Mixpanel Product Benchmarks Report showed that Average Daily Active User (ADAU) growth, in which active users are defined as “active” if they perform any action in a product, was actually negative in two of the four categories we measured: SaaS and media & entertainment. MORE
While gaming and entertainment are the first obvious applications of VR, the more interesting applications – and the ones we focus on here – are in B2B and B2C products and services. MORE
What this means is that when they are designing their own in-car entertainment and navigation control systems they have the ability to link them to the buttons on the car’s steering wheel. Yes, every car needs a navigation system, but from whom? Image Credit: LotPro Cars. MORE
Whether it’s transportation, entertainment, health care, or any other industry, I fully expect we’ll see new companies and teams emerge that apply the techniques of technology-powered products to disrupt their industries. Most people by now have read Marc Andreessen’s Why Software Is Eating The World. This was written back in 2011, and I’ve been watching his predictions play out in companies all around the world. MORE
From my experience, many shopping apps (Taobao and Amazon) and entertainment services (Spotify and Xiami) have improved by leaps and bounds at this. To many, a familiar saying on the consumer mindset is wanting products to be “better, cheaper and faster”. MORE
I still saw teams entertaining solutions that weren’t connected to the opportunities they were finding through generative research. Are you always entertaining new solutions? I’ve found a visual aid that is profoundly changing the way teams work. MORE
It wasn’t until Oculus raised millions in a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 that we really began to see interest and the entertainment industry began to shift to VR. Roy Peer opens his presentation by introducing himself & discussing the virtual reality industry. He references a common question in the industry: whether or not virtual reality (VR) is a fad. MORE
She has over 15 years experience building world-class products for global brands such as American Express, Kaplan, Sony Entertainment, Financial Times, IBM, and JPMorgan. MORE
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NOVEMBER 28, 2016
What this means is that when they are designing their own in-car entertainment and navigation control systems they have the ability to link them to the buttons on the car’s steering wheel. Yes, every car needs a navigation system, but from whom? Image Credit: LotPro Cars.
Clever PM
APRIL 19, 2018
I find it entertaining when people talk about how Agile and Lean and Kanban are all relatively new, untested, and revolutionary concepts. That’s because they’re none of those things — they’re simply descendants of ideas and concepts that have existed in manufacturing contexts for a half-century or more, just pitched in a different way, at […]. Product Management Agile Culture Do's Good PM Leadership Scrum
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AUGUST 31, 2016
With our digital devices buzzing, world events demanding our attention, and more things to entertain us than ever before, it certainly seems harder to focus on what’s really important. Is the world more distracting? Sometimes it seems that way.
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FEBRUARY 28, 2018
The Phoenix Project is an entertaining novel with lessons for those who want to understand how manufacturing techniques can be applied to software. The Phoenix Project is a novel that seems too true—featuring too-familiar dysfunctions between marketing, development, and operations.
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AUGUST 11, 2017
Since then he’s had his share of successes and failures in a storied career spanning the US and Europe, and in this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product San Francisco he distills those 20 years into twelve key lessons.
Melissa Perri
MARCH 16, 2017
It's presented in a digestible, entertaining format, which I legit looked forward to working on each week. Product Institute is an online school for Product Managers looking to level up their skills.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Thanks to @bfgmartin and crew for organising an entertaining and inspiring #mtpcon. On Friday, September 8, we gathered nearly 1,600 passionate product people from 52 countries around the world to the iconic Barbican Hall for another dazzling #mtpcon.
Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 21, 2016
But resisting this craving for stimulation and entertainment allows me to enjoy my food: it’s amazing how tasty a simple sandwich is when we eat mindfully. What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment, to what is actually happening.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
As entertaining as these narratives are I find them to be very dangerous to both aspiring and current product designers. As entertaining as these narratives are I find them to be very dangerous to both aspiring and current product designers.
Product Talk
AUGUST 10, 2016
I still saw teams entertaining solutions that weren’t connected to the opportunities they were finding through generative research. Are you always entertaining new solutions? I’ve found a visual aid that is profoundly changing the way teams work.
The Accidental Product Manager
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
These kids have decided that they can get the entertainment content that they want via the Internet and so they no longer need to have either a telephone to their house or cable television. HBO has to change in order to survive, what can we learn from them? Image Credit: JasonParis 00.
PM Hardcore
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
The book is a great and entertaining read. Brain Wiring (by Wellcome Images, CC licensed). In part 1 I introduced mental models and some reasons they are important. And I provided a few “general purpose” examples.
Amir Rozenberg
DECEMBER 7, 2017
The proliferation of video consumption on a variety of devices is unsurprising when one considers the media vertical: Sports, entertainment, drama, gaming etc. How many times have you heard this phrase while watching a game on your phone: “Touchdown!!” ” (or GOAL!!)
Andrew Chen
JANUARY 31, 2018
– it’s entertaining, but who’s keeping track of these forecasts? Dear readers, 2017 was a big year, where we got Trump’s first(!) year in office, a renaissance in interest around cryptocurrencies, Brexit, Puerto Rico, and oh yeah, things got a little crazy at Uber too.
Under10 Playbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
” I often help people set up their home entertainment centers and computers. A guy fell into a hole. A friend heard his cries for help and promptly jumped down into the hole too. The guy says, “What are you doing? Now we’re both stuck down here!” ” And the friend says, “Yes, but I’ve been down here before and I know the way out.”
Pragmatic Marketing
MAY 23, 2017
And while it may feel like infographics are a dime a dozen, progressive media house Fast Company has figured out how to use them to inform (and entertain) its C-level audience with original and compelling content. It seems there is a never-ending competition for customer mindshare. We all want prospective customers to consider our brand. But we also want them to know who we are and what we offer long before they make a purchase.
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
It wasn’t until Oculus raised millions in a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 that we really began to see interest and the entertainment industry began to shift to VR. Roy Peer opens his presentation by introducing himself & discussing the virtual reality industry. He references a common question in the industry: whether or not virtual reality (VR) is a fad.
Amir Rozenberg
DECEMBER 7, 2017
The proliferation of video consumption on a variety of devices is unsurprising when one considers the media vertical: Sports, entertainment, drama, gaming etc. How many times have you heard this phrase while watching a game on your phone: “Touchdown!!” ” (or GOAL!!)
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
From my experience, many shopping apps (Taobao and Amazon) and entertainment services (Spotify and Xiami) have improved by leaps and bounds at this. To many, a familiar saying on the consumer mindset is wanting products to be “better, cheaper and faster”.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Women want to come home after work, relax and be entertained and watch shows about themselves.” I was recently on a long haul flight and ended up whiling away my time watching random shows on the in-flight system. One of the shows I watched was a sitcom. I didn’t find it great (in fact I don’t remember chuckling at even one single joke) but I still ended up watching a bunch of episodes in a row.
Mind the Product
MAY 9, 2017
She has over 15 years experience building world-class products for global brands such as American Express, Kaplan, Sony Entertainment, Financial Times, IBM, and JPMorgan.
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AUGUST 28, 2017
The guest can be from any background – technology, entertainment, government, the arts. Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice.
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AUGUST 22, 2017
Gibson Biddle has worked in product at several entertainment companies, such as Netflix, Mattel, and EA, as well as educational companies such as Chegg and The Learning Company. In his presentation, he discusses “wicked hard” decision-making and how it is a practiced art, and can be very easy with practice. He discusses all of these experiences through the lens of Netflix, where he was the Vice President of Product. A Brief History of Netflix.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 15, 2018
The 2017 Mixpanel Product Benchmarks Report showed that Average Daily Active User (ADAU) growth, in which active users are defined as “active” if they perform any action in a product, was actually negative in two of the four categories we measured: SaaS and media & entertainment.
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JUNE 28, 2016
Whether it’s transportation, entertainment, health care, or any other industry, I fully expect we’ll see new companies and teams emerge that apply the techniques of technology-powered products to disrupt their industries. Most people by now have read Marc Andreessen’s Why Software Is Eating The World. This was written back in 2011, and I’ve been watching his predictions play out in companies all around the world.
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APRIL 25, 2017
To set the context, media companies today face the huge challenge of staying relevant amid rapidly changing consumer behaviors, especially in regards to how teens and young adults get and watch their video entertainment.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
Goldratt’s classic will teach you to think in systems and constraints, plus it’s written like a novel so it’s much more entertaining than a textbook. Here are four product development “schools of thought” and the best books to read on each of them.
Amplitude
JANUARY 8, 2018
HyperCard found applications in the educational, entertainment, scientific, and many other industries. We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from Andrew Ofstad, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Humans are preternaturally skilled at amplifying their inherent abilities through tools.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Social , satisfying curiosity or providing social interaction and entertainment.
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”.
UX Studio
APRIL 3, 2018
UX challenge: The other reality the patient enters should engage and entertain them enough to distract them from what’s going on in the hospital around them. I love designing healthcare UX. The health-tech sector is among the fastest growing in the world today, making the stakes super high. With innovation happening every day, what usability challenges come with it for UXers to solve? We made a list of the top six. We at UX studio have a long history with healthcare UX.
Inside Intercom
APRIL 5, 2018
We didn’t want to make something that was just there to entertain, or to make money and get users and be the next thing that everyone forgot a year later. For Duolingo, the world’s most downloaded education app, growth is fundamentally about retention. If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends.
Amplitude
JANUARY 6, 2018
HyperCard found applications in the educational, entertainment, scientific, and many other industries. We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from Andrew Ofstad, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Humans are preternaturally skilled at amplifying their inherent abilities through tools.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2016
While gaming and entertainment are the first obvious applications of VR, the more interesting applications – and the ones we focus on here – are in B2B and B2C products and services.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Clay also raises the notion of an emotional job at play: “feel entertained while commuting.” To stay entertained on the commute, is a podcast a better solution than a milkshake?
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Today’s consumers are quickly becoming dependent on a constant connection with information, entertainment and education, all only a tap away all day, every day. Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. Why is Designing for Emotion so Important? When we recall past experiences, we are not wired to remember the whole experience with total accuracy.
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AUGUST 30, 2017
One surefire way to create a product that engages users and keeps them coming back is to create features with an entertaining element.
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JANUARY 30, 2018
Reveal valuable and entertaining content to others, Define ourselves to others, Grow and nurture relationships, Allow for self-fulfillment, Get the word out about brands and causes we like or support. What a buzzword, right?! Not really. Gamification in UX predates what we thought of as its beginnings. Even though the term “gamification” made its appearance in 2008, it didn’t gain popularity until 2010. It had popped into our lives long before we started to pay attention to it. “UX”
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OCTOBER 14, 2016
Bobby Kotick, CEO of the gaming and entertainment giant with $4.66B in 2015 revenue, discusses evaluating talent, fostering a culture of innovation, leveraging IP, and more at [link].
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