The Product Model

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

This week we take a look at the Power of Pre-Approval, how Hybrid Team are increasingly siloed, Google and its product strategy, User Journeys vs. User Flows and many more.

Enabling the Team

The Power of Pre-Approval: How Trust and Freedom can Drive Innovation by Henry Stewart

Do people have to come up with solutions to problems and then require approval at the end? If so, pre—approval can speed things up.

Is Your Hybrid Team Losing Steam? by Heidi K. Gardner

Hybrid working makes collaboration harder for teams that are increasingly siloed and fragmented. Leaders need to overcome this challenge.

Product Direction

Hot Take: Google Has A Company Strategy, Not A Product Strategy by Jackie Bavaro

Google has a company strategy of hiring the smartest people and letting them build things. But this means competing products and a lack of top-down support.


“Make It Easier” Is Not A Product Strategy by Pavel Samsonov

To understand the value to your customer, you need to start with research into their problems, not skip to validating features.

Continuous Discovery

User Journeys vs. User Flows by Kate Kaplan

User journeys and user flows are quite similar but Kate shares how they differ in scope, purpose, and format.


How Can You Test a Customer’s Willingness to Pay? by Teresa Torres
Learn three different ways to quickly and reliably assess a customer's willingness to pay for a particular solution.

Continuous Design

Ux Principles For AI Products by Bree Chapin 
Bree shares the key UX design principles that will help designers create delightful, highly usable, inclusive experiences for AI.


Why Chatbots Are Not the Future by Amelia Wattenberger

There is a skill in writing good prompts. We need to make this more accessible to everyone.  

Continuous Delivery

Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% by Marcin Kolny

The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs.

Platform as a Runtime (PaaR) -  Beyond Platform Engineering by Aviran Mordo

Aviran shares how Wix is taking platform engineering to the next level by removing the overhead of the developers using the runtime.

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