This week, we feature the inevitably of mistakes and how to embrace them to make a successful product, the importance of purpose, honing in on product strategy problems, as well as the struggles of complexity for designers.
Enabling the Team
Optimize to be Wrong, not Right by Barry O'Reilly
We live in a complex world that frequently and without warning changes around us. Yet the approach to this is to seek and expect statements of assurance: why?
Coaching For Everyone? It Really Can Be Done! by Michele Rees-Jones
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Product Direction
by Ben Thompson
A deep dive look at the Apple tracking ban, the main ad models of the big companies and the advantage that Apple has given itself.
by Ravi Mehta
Mehta looks at the most common disconnect between the goals of a business and what product teams actually work on day-to-day.
Continuous Discovery
by Jeff Gothelf
Talk to your customers. You’ve heard this advice repeatedly. The challenge is how to do this in an effective, cost-efficient and trustworthy way.
by Kara Pernice
How to facilitate better? Begin with goals, follow a guide, improvise, encourage action and don't take center stage.
Continuous Design
by Eduardo Hernandez
The first line of defense against complex problems is to design against complexity.
by Tanner Christensen
What does a modern interview process look like for digital designers? Designers can get value from knowing what a typical interview process looks like today.
Continuous Delivery
by Darius Kunce and Dominik Goby
No decisions, random decisions and undocumented decisions lead to poor architectural outcomes. ADRs solve this.
by Gergely Orosz
With the exception of Facebook, most big tech companies use RFCs. Gergely has collated a collection of the different formats that these companies use.
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