Tag: Product Management
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 38 – UX & Product Management with Laura Klein
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 29 with Jorge Arango on Design Ethics
Episode 29 highlights with Jorge Arango:
- The similarities between physical architecture and UX design
- Tips we can apply from the process of architecture to digital design
- How to think about physical spaces to inform the digital information spaces you create
- Feedback loops in digital information spaces
- How the rate of change in physical buildings vs. digital spaces has changed our expectations as a culture
- The ways language greatly impact our expectations and design of digital spaces
- Design ethics in digital places where civic discourse happens and how we as designers can be more mindful in creating them
read more… “Aurelius Podcast: Episode 29 with Jorge Arango on Design Ethics”
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 25 with Michelle Fitzpatrick on Product Management and User Research at Intercom
Episode 25 highlights:
- Product management at Intercom
- Choosing the right problems to solve for your customers
- What user research looks like at Intercom
- How Michelle and the product team at Intercom chooses which projects to work on
- Where does UX design start and Product Management end?
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 22 with Peter Morville on Planning, User Research and Mindfulness
Episode 22 highlights with Peter Morville:
- Peter’s new book “Planning for Everything” and what led him to decide to write a book about planning
- What we can learn from the U.S. Marines about planning better design and research projects
- Peter’s framework of S.T.A.R.F.I.N.D.E.R and how to use it for better planning of your ux, design and research projects
- How Agile development process can help…and hinder your design and software project planning
- Are you OVER-planning? How to determine if you are and if so work at getting better at improvising
- Tips for convincing your stakeholders to do (or do more) user research
- Systems thinking and how it applies to UX design and product management
- Ways to be more self-aware in the design, features and decisions we make in our work as UX designers, researchers and product managers
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 9 with Melissa Perri on Product Management & User Research
Episode 9 highlights:
- Melissa’s approach to product strategy
- Setting good strategic goals for our product and user experiences
- The difference between shipping features and shipping GOOD features
- How to do user research to actually drive innovation
- Case study examples from Melissa on how she used user research to increase user acquisition
- Using product and UX goals to tie up into larger company vision and strategy
read more… “Aurelius Podcast: Episode 9 with Melissa Perri on Product Management & User Research”
Inside Aurelius – 002 with Joseph Szczesniak and Zack Naylor
iA002 episode highlights:
- The technology stack that we built Aurelius with and how it’s evolved over time
- Understanding common development terms to better communicate design ideas
- An inside look at how Joseph and Zack make decisions about the product and the company
- Behind the scenes views and opinions on making technology upgrades and feature prioritizations
- How we build Aurelius like Wyatt Earp
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 3 with Fred Beecher on Design Strategy
Episode 3 highlights:
- What is design strategy? What is product strategy?
- Effective design strategy methods and approach
- Where business strategy ends and design strategy begins and the difference between the two
- Where design fits into business strategy
- How design can help you monetize failure
- Ways that design and product strategy can drive business strategy
- Practical ways design can help fulfill your company mission
read more… “Aurelius Podcast: Episode 3 with Fred Beecher on Design Strategy”
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 6 with Peter Merholz on Product & Design Strategy
Episode 6 highlights:
- Some history of Adaptive Path and how they got into design and product strategy
- Pitfalls to avoid when making a product and design strategy
- How to be more than a UX design “stylist” or “executionist”
- The role of UX and design in business strategy
- Differences between UX and product management
- Design like a lawyer and get everyone on board with your decisions and recommendations
read more… “Aurelius Podcast: Episode 6 with Peter Merholz on Product & Design Strategy”
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 2 with Jared Spool
Episode 2 highlights:
- the importance of framing the problem in UX and product strategy
- how to tell if you’re designing and building the right features or products
- measuring the impact and success of UX design and product strategy
- balancing an understanding of the business strategy to make better design and product recommendations
- Jared’s most effective way of getting your company to prioritize UX and product strategy
- who owns the user experience?