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Constraints of Digital Delivery and Product Management in Government

BY Chris Massey on June 2, 2016

India Perry is a Civil Service fast streamer who was recently parachuted into HMRC in a Product Manager role for a multi-million user transactional service. With little digital experience, working within a highly collaborative, very experienced team, India had quite a learning experience & shares some of the things she learned along the way. Product Read more »

The Challenge of Designing Products for Social Impact

BY Chris Massey on May 31, 2016

Kate Tarling is a very experienced user researcher and product designer with a wealth of experience with running user-centred design programmes and activities. Recently Kate has worked as a Product Designer for Peek a social enterprise creating easy to use eye care tools for every clinic and health care worker. In this talk from ProductTank London, she talks Read more »

The Importance of Product Specifications

BY Chris Massey on May 27, 2016

In this final talk from “How Best To Manage Physical Products”, Fergus Christie from the Product Development Centre (PDC) talks about going “From Ideas to Reality”, and the attention to detail require to make products – particularly physical products – a reality. Specifically, he reiterates a simple but critical idea – that the process of creating a Read more »

From Concept to Production - How Nissan Creates Cars

BY Chris Massey on May 26, 2016

Alec Patterson comes from a design and test engineering background, and spoke at ProductTank London about how Nissan goes from designing the initial concept for a new vehicle to actually putting it into production. Setting the concept of the vehicle To start with, the team will benchmark and assess competitor vehicles, assess the target market, expand Read more »

The Psychology Behind Successful Products by Nathalie Nahai

BY Martin Eriksson on May 25, 2016

In this talk from Mind The Product San Francisco, Nathalie Nahai explains the psychological principles behind the successful conversion, adoption and monetization of products, and how you can use these techniques in a nice vs naughty way. Nathalie is the Web Psychologist and best-selling author of Webs Of Influence: The Psychology Of Online Persuasion. Having Read more »

Hardware Products - From Idea to Execution

BY Chris Massey on May 24, 2016

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez explores some of the challenges of managing physical products, specifically taking products from idea to execution. Eduardo works on Sherlock – OneFineStay’s keyless entry system which home-owners can control remotely from anywhere in the world, and which allows control of doors without having to install any hardware in the communal area of shared Read more »

Product Managers: Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable

BY Ken Norton on May 18, 2016

t’s February 13, 1960, and Ella Fitzgerald stands on a West Berlin stage, nearing the end of a stellar performance. On a whim, she decides to sing “Mack the Knife,” a popular song, but one she’s never performed live. The first chorus goes as planned, and then… she blanks and completely forgets the lyrics to Read more »

Cultivating Product Mindfulness

BY Chris Massey on May 13, 2016

Simon Norris has over 20 years’ experience in bringing his psychology background to bear in running digital businesses. After his first 6 years working at the digital cutting edge for brands and corporations, he has focussed consistently on the experience that technology and businesses provide their customers, and took to the stage in London’d February ProductTank Read more »

Thanks for Another Awesome Mind the Product San Francisco!

BY Martin Eriksson on May 11, 2016

Last week we gathered 1,200 product managers from all over the world (13 countries and 38 states) to the stunning Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the heart of San Francisco for another awesome Mind the Product conference. As always it was amazing to see so many passionate peers in one room, coming together to Read more »

Lean UX and Product Design

BY Chris Massey on April 27, 2016

Michele Ide-Smith is a UX designer with over 17 years’ experience designing digital products and services. She loves solving complex problems: from re-designing government and educational services, to creating productivity tools for software teams, and she is currently a UX designer and researcher at The European Bioinformatics Institute. In this in-depth case study, Michele will share Read more »