This week we take a look at a critique of the Spotify Model, startup to enterprise product management, prompt engineering, and golden paths.
Enabling the Team
My Critique Of “The Spotify Model”: Part 1 by Jason Yip
Agile, autonomy, alignment, cross-pollination, structure, motivation. From his 8 years of experience at Spotify, Jason covers it all.
Whose Opinion Matters? by John Schrag
John shares the three big factors influencing good decision-making: diverse perspectives, truly valued input, and facilitators drawing out information.
Product Direction
Moving From A Startup To An Enterprise As A Product Manager by GoPractice
Collecting the views from Product Managers on the pros and cons of moving from a startup to an enterprise.
Defining Product Outcomes: The 8 Most Common Mistakes You Should Avoidby Teresa Torres
The most common mistakes that teams and leaders make when they’re trying to set outcomes for their product teams to work towards.
Continuous Discovery
User Diary Studies - An Effective Research Method For Evaluating User Behavior Long-Term by Stéphanie Walter
Learn when diary studies work best, and where they have their limitations, and grab a template for the next diary study.
How Uber Eats experimentation culture led it to expand outside of food delivery by Daniele Joubert
You can't ask customers what they want because you'll end up stuck in a niche. Understand your customers and experiment to identify real growth opportunities.
Continuous Design
Measuring DesignOps with the REACH Metrics Framework by Kate Kaplan
DesignOps success is difficult to track and measure. Use the REACH framework (Results, Efficiency, Ability, Clarity, Health) to track your success.
How HSBC Design for Security by Jane Saputra
Ease of use and security can be at odds and friction is the tool that designers can use to balance these competing concerns.
Continuous Delivery
Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit by Swyx
Prompt takeovers lead to funny GPT screenshots everywhere. But prompt leaks could be dangerous. Swyz explains why it's not that bad.
How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem by Gary Niemen
Spotify creates Golden Path documents to highlight the recommended way of using our services. Gary shares how they structure them for best effect.
We're excited to announce our first 7 speakers for UXDX USA 2023.
- Duaa Gettani, Senior Researcher, Square
- Sudev Balakrishnan, CPO, FIS
- Jeff Simons, Director of Product Designer, Charles River
- Muriel Naim, VP of Design, Fabric
- Kevin Hawkins, Head of UX, Glovo
- Joseph Meersman, Senior Director of Design, InTapp
- Mariné Palamutyan, UX Research Manager, DocuSign
As you can tell from the lineup it is going to be another fantastic year. But we're not done yet! Stay tuned for new speaker announcements each week.
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Functional Programming and Aligning Stakeholders | 1 Feb
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