by Heather Searl In the last few years, it seems that personas have gotten a bad rap. And in some UX circles, mentioning a provisional persona might get bring you some [ … ]
Category: Design
User Experience: A Primer
By Heather Searl Every time I log into LinkedIn I’m asked to endorse someone else for user experience knowledge. I’d like to think this proves user experience has grown from a [ … ]
User stories should be implementation free
By Steve Johnson, Under 10 Consulting In my ebook From Agile to Agile I quoted from a post on Mark Levison’s ScrumMaster Tales: As a first time book buyer I [ … ]
There’s No Such Thing as “a Designer”
NOTE: The following is a guest post by Didier Thizy. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information Across all industries, product managers are [ … ]
Not Everyone Wants to Play Games
All over the web and in all the product management communities, there are articles and discussions about gamification. If you’ve been offline for a while, gamification is about applying design [ … ]
Make it Simple
By Jennifer Doctor This is a simple post about being simple. I was thrilled and honored to have a visit by my good friend, Jim Holland, for the recent Product [ … ]
Build vs. Think – The Need for Thought Experiments in Product Development
Note: This is a guest post by Fred Engel. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. I was attending a feature set [ … ]
Apparent value vs. Discoverable value
By Saeed Khan Not all features are created equal. Not all features are useful or evident upfront. The value we derive from products can be multi-layered or multi-faceted. In [ … ]
Simplicity and Elegance Require Deep Attention to Detail
Tweet this: Simplicity and Elegance Require Deep Attention to Detail – http://wp.me/pXBON-2Wh – #prodmgmt #design #innovation By Saeed Khan There’s a mantra these days (or does it qualify as [ … ]
Addressing Market Shifts or Why RIM is not down and out just yet
by Saeed Khan If you’ve read anything about Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) lately, it’s likely that the news has not been good. Whether it was the underwhelming response [ … ]