The Product Model

Cross-Functional #119: How Spotify designed a new homepage experience design and OpenAI ChatGPT for product designers is bursting onto the scene

This week we take a look at how Spotify designed a new homepage experience, the future of UX writing, how one man would change how he designs social media apps and we will look at the latest product blowing up tech social media - OpenAI ChatGPT for product designers.

Enabling the Team

The Trust-Communication Trade-Off by Emily Levada
In Emily's experience, trust has a very particular, very predictable impact on how people communicate within an organization. 

Change the Mindset of Employees with These Three Simple Steps by Joost Minnaar

Instead of blaming people for not changing their mindsets, leaders should blame the conditions and contexts in which their employees have to do their work.

Product Direction

Cascading OKRs at scale by Christina Wodtke
Do not use OKRs if you want to control people’s activities. Only use OKRs if you want to direct your people toward desired outcomes. 

The forgotten cousin of OKR that could make it 10x better by Debbie Widjaja
In a Balanced Scorecard, a company’s goal is divided into 4 quadrants: Finance, customers, internal business processes, and learning & growth.

Continuous Discovery

How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn by Teresa Torres
Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest way of learning about what your customers need.


The Future of UX Writing: Trends and Predictions by Anca Budau
User experience (UX) writing is becoming more and more vital as UX design develops and gains importance in the digital age.

Continuous Design

How Spotify Designed a New Homepage Experience by Alexandria Goree & Faith McAllister
By setting a clear design vision, and fostering a strong design and insights partnership, Spotify was able to change their homepage to better serve users. 


Exploring the Power of OpenAI ChatGPT for product designers by Edward Chechique
Edward demonstrates how ChatGPT can generate SVGs, respond to recruiters, write code and brainstorming. But also highlights the mistakes that it makes.

Continuous Delivery

How I’d Rebuild a Social Web App Like Twitter Today  by Paul Armstrong
React-native is out, SolidJS, Tailwind, VIte and Deno are in. And using module federation to limit unintended consequences of changes.

How I Split a Monolith Into Microservices Without Refactoring by Peter van Vliet

By moving the frontend/backend communication from the code to the runtime the frontend can import and call backend components directly, like a dependency injector.

USA Online Series

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Tomorrow is our last online event for 2022! In this USA online series, Brain will share actionable insights from his upcoming book on using color for UX and behavioral design. and Erick describe a process that includes UX for concept generation, prototyping and personalization of products. Erick will also illustrate how we can use available platforms to scale technology beyond low-resource settings.

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