The Product Model

#135 of weekly news across Product, UX, Design and Dev

This week we take a look at empowering employees to make decisions, facilitating knowledge sharing, the NHS Website roadmap case study, key metrics, ideation sessions, meeting Copilot for Design among others.

Enabling the Team

5 Strategies to Empower Employees to Make Decisions by David Lancefield.
The “decision deficit” is the gap between the desire for more empowerment and capability. David shares five strategies that can help.

4 Key Ways to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing in a Highly Decentralized Decision-making by Pim de Morree

How does knowledge sharing work in a company with 237 people and no headquarters, no centralized decision-making, and no overall company strategy?

Product Direction

Creating The NHS Website Roadmap — a Case Study by James Higgott

20 product managers contribute to the nhs.uk and NHS App roadmaps, as well as other team members and stakeholders. Find out how they worked together.


Don’t Become a Victim of One Key Metric by Casey Winters

The one key metric philosophy has some serious issues, particularly for complex products. Casey shares a few examples.

Continuous Discovery

Amplify Your UX Research Impact Using Ideation Sessions by Paige Nuzzolillo

Tips for activating findings as a team, plus templates and resources to get you started.


5 ReOps Learnings at the UK Department for Education by Alice Kiernan and Lucy Sutton
The most important thing you can do in ReOps is to start somewhere, no matter where on the 8 ReOps pillars that “somewhere” lands.

Continuous Design

Why Do They Ignore My Awesome Design Documentation? by Slava Shestopalov
Documentation is a digital product. It shouldn’t be perfect — it should work and bring value.


Behind-the-Design: Meet Copilot by Jon Friedman and Kurtis Beavers

AI as copilot is a very different mental model requiring wholly new methods of interaction. Learn how Microsoft are approaching this.

Continuous Delivery

How Liberty Insurance Approached Their Tech Stack Modernization by David Anderson

Liberty Insurance recognized that their legacy tech was holding them back. To support the business they needed a new stack and new ways of working.

You want Modules, not Microservices by Ted Neward

Getting distributed systems right--performance, reliability, scalability, whatever "right" means--is hard. Separation can be achieved with modules.

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Thanks to artificial intelligence, optimization and design systems, today's mature digital product landscape is more efficient than ever before, but customer experiences can sometimes feel like swimming in a sea of sameness.

Beyond Usability Testing: How to Measure and Maximize the Impact of your Research

UX research = usability test? Not necessarily. Research is a variety of methods that can be freely adapted to the needs of the project.

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