The Product Model

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

This week we take a look at Pledges to Executives, UX Research Sample Sizes, Selling Design, DevEx, and more.

Enabling the Team

Pledge To Executives by Marty Cagan

Product teams need to repay the trust from executives with transparency on outcomes, making high integrity commitments, and minimizing surprises.

Career Ladders for Tech, Open Sourced by Sarah Drasner

Sarah shares a sample of the career ladders that she uses for her organization, open sourced for anyone.

Product Direction

Why Useful Product OKRs should be IDLE by Tim Herbig

Product OKRs should be IDLE (Influenceable, Detectable, Linked, Evidence-informed) to be truly useful, moving beyond dogmatic adherence to "best practices".


Collaborative Product Strategy Development: A Case Study by Rian van der Merwe

An extensive, step-by-step case study about how to work together as a team to develop and implement a Product Strategy.

Continuous Discovery

Developing A User Insights Library by Katie Dickerson

Airtable was great for us but hard for non-regular users. We share how we are trying to make it easier for our colleagues to find and use insights.


Stop Asking UX Researchers To Defend Their Sample Size by Chris Liu
The generalizability of research is a function of sampling strategy, not size. Qualitative research aims for understanding over generalisability.

Continuous Design

Design Patterns Are A Better Way To Collaborate On Your Design System by Ben Clemens
Focusing on design patterns, rather than individual elements, can eliminate bottlenecks, encourage contributions, and link the system to product impact.


How To Sell Design by Anton Sten

Great stories are like great designs; universal, simple, clear structure and purpose, and offer surprise and delight. Designers should use writing more. 

Continuous Delivery

Changing The Tires On A Moving Bus by Nate Ranson

Adventures in refactoring a decade-old feature at Mailchimp using iterative improvements and considering the distributed nature of data in a production environment.

Developer Experience: What Is It And Why Should You Care? by Gwen Davis

Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.

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