AI has made building easier.

The Product Model

But building the right thing is still hard.

Ten articles every week on what is happening across product, research, design and engineering. Curated by Rory Madden to help teams decide what to build.

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

­ This week we take a look at Amazon's dark UX practices, a decade of digital transformation, API evolution.and more. Enabling the Team ­ How Are We Doing After A Decade Of Public Digital Transformation? by Matt EdgarMatt ranks 10 years of digital transformation at the Government

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

­ This week we take a look at Best Practices in Complex Systems, Tech Debt from a Product Perspective, Measuring real NPS, Modular Architecture and more. Enabling the Team ­ The Double-Edge Sword of Efficiency by Daniel WalshWhen Meta reduced their workforce they started to ship

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

­ This week we take a look at Designing Products with AI, Adopting Continuous Discovery, Evolutionary Architecture, 360 Feedback and more. Enabling the Team ­ Preparing For The Future by Marty CaganMarty shares ten big changes to how we will build products in the age of AI. (Hint

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

­ This week we take a look at Product Discovery in Platform Teams, Knowledge Bases, AR Design, Isomorphic Development and more. Enabling the Team ­ You Don’t Need Permission To Create by Mark BowleyWhat stops most people from being more creative isn’t time, skill or confidence, i

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#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 LichtSocial capital has always been integral to collaboratio

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

­ This week we take a look at New AI Organization, Career advice from top product leaders, building the vision instead of the current requests, among others. Enabling the Team ­ A New AI Organization Beckons by Troy YoungAI will become your company's most valuable administrator,

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#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 Stewar

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

­ This week we take a look at why Coaching Products Teams won't put you out of a Job, "Process" vs. Systems & Habits, thinking beyond outcomes in OKRs, User Story Mapping, Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming among others. Enabling the Team ­ Give Your Research Skills Away

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

­ This week we take a look at 5 Proven Practices to Boost Psychological Safety, How To Calculate Unit Economics For Your Business, why ChatGPT Cannot Do User Research and many other topics. Enabling the Team ­ How To Build Ground-Breaking Products: A Manager's Guide by Suzanne La

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

­ This week we take a look at How Chinese Companies Are Reinventing Management, The Decentralisation Paradox Of Flat Companies, Understanding How Product Outcomes Connect to Revenue and Costs, How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands among other topics. Enabling the Te

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#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 Decisio

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

­ This week we take a look at building a culture of accountability, using ChatGPT for OKRs, articulating value during activation and Developer Experience teams. Enabling the Team ­ Building a Culture of Accountability for Empowered Product Teams by Teresa Torres and Hope GurionTe

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Cross-Functional #133: The weekly news across Product, UX, Design and Dev

­ This week we take a look at 2 person teams, the CASTLE Framework, the role of the software architect and diving deep on NPS. Enabling the Team ­ Delegating Projects, Not Tasks by Jason FriedBasecamp use empowered teams of 2 - just one designer and a developer. It works well for

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