The Product Model

Cross-Functional #103

Learning from FAANG way of working, avoiding product sprawl, adopting offensive product strategies and more. 

The Product Culture Shift by Camille Fournier

It’s easy for people who have spent their whole career building infrastructure to misunderstand what product and platform really mean. Here's the secret recipe.

How To Learn From FAANG by Itamar Gilad
Big Tech processes are not universal, but they all follow the principles of customer first, empowered teams and continuous improvement.

Product Direction

Product Sprawl by Richard Mironov
Product sprawl is the result of years of seemingly small decisions that each take us in the same direction: one more thing that’s not quite on strategy.
 
Product Strategy Framework: Offense vs. Defense by Ely Lerner
Offensive strategies, that move the business forward, outperform defensive strategies that protect against downsides.

Continuous Discovery

The Art of Storytelling for Case Studies
by Ingrid Elias 
A story has a background, a process and an outcome. Use this format to improve buy-in for your research.
 
How Time to Value and Product Complexity Shape User Activation by Oleg Ya
Approach activation for a product based on its specific level of complexity and time to value.
 

Continuous Design

Back Button UX Design
by Vitaly Friedman
With the Back button, users often get confused and frustrated. How to design a better back button UX and where to put those Back buttons in our interfaces.
 
Eight Mental Model for Design Heuristics
by Caleb Furlough
Mental models, timely feedback, task related content, probabilistic decision making and more. 

Continuous Delivery

SPAs: Theory Versus Practice
by Nolan Lawson
When looking at performance the best SPA is better than the best MPA. The problem is that the average SPA is worse than the average MPA.

Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
by Jen Simmons
Prepare to delete a lot of JavaScript. This article shows all of the use cases that can now be done just using CSS. 
 

DESIGNING A HYBRID CONFERENCE

A conference as a product: reacting to the hybrid world

Online conferences changed the industry. Hybrid is another big change but by staying focused on the attendee experience we can create events that are better than ever before.

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