The Product Model

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

This week we take a look at Building Remote Social Capital, Conversational Programming, Scaling Discovery, and AI-assisted TDD, among others. 

Enabling the Team

Building Social Capital When You Work Remotely by Aliza Licht

Social capital has always been integral to collaboration at work Remote makes it harder but social capital can be earned, invested, and spent.

To Decide is Human: The Importance of Effective Decision Making in Organizations by Doug Kirkpatrick

Is it important how decisions get made in organizations? A few historical data points suggest an answer.

Product Direction

Bridging the Gap Between Product Management & Product Design by Bruno Bergher and Tara Wellington 

Product designers & product managers are critical partners in the product development process so having a shared context and a strong partnership is critical.


Why The Fuss About Conversational Programming by Simon Wardley

The power of conversational programming will only be truly unleashed when we escape the confines of style and syntax to where relationships and context matter.

Continuous Discovery

The Pitfalls Of Continuous Discovery Research (and How To Avoid Them) by Cori Widen

Cori breaks down continuous research and provides a detailed view of how to incorporate it into your practice.


Four Principles for Scaling Product Discovery Practices by Tim Herbig
Treat product discovery like a product, increase the visibility of your discovery efforts and balance guiding with autonomy for individual adoption.

Continuous Design

Building A Modern Design System In Layers by Dion Almaer
If we're not careful we end up building rigid design systems that we will struggle with as time goes by. Building in layers can solve this.


How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System by Christopher Butler

Good ideas probably account for about 10% of the effort and value in a design project. Structure and systematization is everything else.

Continuous Delivery

Accelerate Test-Driven Development With AI by Gio Lodi

Often people push back on writing tests because they are tedious. This is where AI shines. Gio shows how to build a Swift Package using AI-assisted TDD. 

Is Serverless Overpriced? What Can We Learn From The Primevideo Team? by Yan Cui

The Amazon Prime Video team moved away from serverless due to cost. But when you look deeper serverless enabled their growth and they then evolved past it.

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