Making Product
24 Quotes from Kevin Hale on building Products users love
Shared this as an afterthought and it blew up! Taken from the Stanford's excellent YouTube series on startups, Rajen very generously summarises the key takeaways from Kevin's talk.
What makes a modern digital Product designer?
Uday is Director of UX at CloudPhysics and has been observing the transformation of the Product Design role for 15 years. Here he kindly outlines how to sort the wheat from the chaff...
There is no such thing as UX Design!
Peter Merholz takes no prisoners. Having spent the last 5 years claiming Product Management is a dinosaur concept (we should be Service Managers, apparently), he's moved onto trashing UX. Sample quote: The entire “field” of user experience emerged for one reason — to accommodate, and overcome, poor (or non-existent) product management practices.
7 ways to choose the best features for your Product
Use your gut or go for process? Feature prioritisation can be a dark art. Check out Product Plan's overview of the different tools available to help Product Manager's decide. This question almost always comes up in an interview: don't get caught out!
When Product features disappear
Steve Blank invented Customer Development and is a prolific writer. Here he uncovers the darkside of the Brave New World of digital products: how customers can just as easily get downgraded as upgraded.
Engineering-Driven vs. Design-Driven vs. Product-Driven products
Irfan Ebrahim examines how most Products too easily get the balance wrong in terms of engineering and design at the expense of the end-user. Plus he brings a new acronym: the PDP!
Why corporations will never innovate like startups
Yann Girard always touches a nerve. With this post he riffs on the different cultures that underpin New and Old economy companies: it's David and Goliath is his conclusion.
Growing Product
Why Growth Hacking could be killing your Startup
Another ridiculously catchy title from a writer who knows how to push all the right buttons. Ramli John breaks down how Growth Hacking and Product/Market fit are axiomatic.
Features tell, but benefits sell
Catchy title and a great post. Many Product teams (especially engineers) are sceptical of marketers and view sales and marketing as a waste of money. Here, Gregory Ciotti explodes the notion that 'if you build it they will come.'
Product Leaders
Why the New York Times' piece on Marissa Mayer is a sexist slur
Marissa Meyer is one of the most successful Product Managers of our era. Having lead Product at Google, she is now the boss at Yahoo! In December, the New York Times published an in depth demolition of her leadership of Yahoo! and predicted her imminent demise. The next week Scott Ugelow published a withering response that was hugely popular. What side are you on?
