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Practical Design Thinking Part 3: A better way to run remote workshops?

Dominic Port — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 05:59:00 +0000

Remote workshops, they’re a thing right?! Remote workshops aren’t a new thing and, with the soar in popularity of tools like Mural (our personal favourite) or Miro (another great alternative), alongside the disparate nature of product teams in 2020, more and more remote workshops, (including full-blown Design Sprints) are being run every day. At Pack, before the pandemic Read more »

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Practical Design Thinking Part 2: How to Embed Design Sprints Into Your Teams

Matt Pollitt — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:55:00 +0000

This article (Part 2 of a trilogy) is all about introducing elements of the Design Sprint in a manageable way, to get your teams working better together. It encourages adoption of the process from the inside, out. So, you’ve heard of Design Sprints?! The week-long framework originating from Google Ventures to solve challenges and test Read more »

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Practical Design Thinking Part 1: What is it? And why Should I Care?

John Griffin — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:15:00 +0000

If you’re a product manager or working on a product team, you’ve probably heard of Design Thinking. But have you used it? Do you know what it is, apart from a buzzword everybody likes to use? And, more to the point, how can you start to use it to build better products? Product managers are, Read more »

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Shape Up – Ryan Singer on The Product Experience

The Product Experience — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:00:23 +0000

After starting out as an agency (37 Signals), those at Basecamp realised that the tools it used to manage its own projects would have value for others. What followed was a bootstrapped journey to creating an entire suite of products, using Basecamp’s own approach on how to work well together. Over the years, the company Read more »

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Rapid Prototyping – Philip Pantelides on The Product Experience

The Product Experience — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 05:00:53 +0000

For our first episode back after a summer break, we chat with Philip Pantelides, who takes us on a journey through Japan, Indonesia and beyond. (er, Bristol.) As the Head of Product for Premium Services at Cookpad, Philip has become known for his unstinting attention to detail, and taking rapid prototyping to a whole new Read more »

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Lessons From the Space Race: 3 Steps to Better Product Decisions

Anna Buldakova — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:30:00 +0000

What makes a great product decision? The answer to this question is like the Holy Grail of product management: it promises success and prosperity but no clear evidence that it exists. In this post I examine the way I think about the path: what has worked for me and helped me grow as a product Read more »

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How to Innovate – Ryan Jacoby on The Product Experience

The Product Experience — Wed, 22 May 2019 09:31:43 +0000

Ryan Jacoby is an expert on innovation, but not, perhaps, on optimising book titles for SEO – his book, Making Progress, is a guide on how to ensure that your team is open to and successful at innovation. Ryan has been working in the field since his undergraduate days, when he became the first person Read more »

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The Craft of Prototyping by Caitlin Kalinowski

Martin Eriksson — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:12:18 +0000

Prototyping helps you to focus your energy on the right thing at the right time in product development – and therein lies one of the secrets to building great products. Whether you’re building hardware or software, knowing how to leverage the art of prototyping from the first iteration to the last is critical to success. Read more »

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