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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Erika Hall on the importance of conversation in design

Intercom, Inc.

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? I know the workshops at Mule Design have taken off. Conversation is the original interface.

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What strong teamwork looks like: 7 proven models

Atlassian

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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Agile at Scale – Outcome Driven (or Broken)

Tyner Blain

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

He died in 1947, and the first appearance of the faster horses quote attributed to Ford was in 2001. In 1999, however, a cruise ship designer named John McNeece wanted to give an example of why it’s problematic to ask customers what they want. Even I, despite knowing better, often find myself talking about solutions with my team.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). McElroy influenced two entrepreneurs named, Bill Hewlett and David Packark?—?names names look familiar, anyone?

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Idea Validation?—?Much More Than Just A/B Experiments

The Product Coalition

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.