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Notes on using the iPad Pro for “real work”
<tl;dr> The iPad Pro is a capable machine for getting all kinds of “real work” done while on the go. After much deliberation, I bought myself a new iPad Pro 9.7″ about four weeks ago, and since then I’ve been running an experiment to see if I could use my iPad for “real work”. Inspired…
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User Experience is everybody’s job
I’ve met lots of product teams who will tell you: “User Experience is a design thing.” They hire ‘User Experience Designers’ to design the User Experience, and generally assume that they alone are responsible for the overall UX. I believe that simply assuming the User Experience is a ‘Design Thing’ is a very dangerous mindset,…
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Ways to think about Android Instant Apps, and what it means for developers
This week their annual developer event Google casually announced a huge new feature coming soon to Android: Instant Apps. Chris Maddern called it their “one more thing” moment. When finally released, perhaps later this year, it could be the one of the most fundamental changes to the way mobile apps work since the App Store.…
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Growth Product Managers: You should learn to code Python. Here’s why:
<tl/dr> Growth Product Managers and Growth ‘Hackers’ should learn to code Python: it saves time by automating reporting and analysis, and it will make you a little less dependent on your data science team and a little more confident to go looking through your analytics data yourself. I run Growth and Monetisation for HERE’s consumer…
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The Complete Product Manager
Being a great Product Manager in tech is more than shuffling roadmaps and writing user stories. Great PMs are first and foremost masters of their market: the segments, the customers, and their needs, and they spend a great deal of time talking to customers themselves and conducting field research. Great PMs are the walking embodiment…
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Messaging and Chat are the next big channel for Growth
Growth is about finding new channels. Messaging in general as a channel is young and fresh – and there will be a goldrush very, very soon. Services like Slack and Facebook Messenger are following the lead set by the asian chat successes like Line and WeChat in turning chat into a platform that allows access…
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OKRs: How we use OKRs to empower teams
I did a presentation at the ProductTank Berlin February event last night. My slides are available here. I’m happy to chat more about OKRs, and how we work. Contact me!
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Amazon Kindle and the Perfect Product Vision
In the recent fantastic piece on The Verge covering interviews with the top brass behind the Amazon Kindle, the ultimate product vision behind the Kindle series of eReaders is articulated beautifully. From the article: For Amazon, paper is more than a material for making prototypes. It’s the inspiration for the Kindle of the future: a…
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Product Manager in the middle
The Product Manager isn’t just a middle-man. If you’re a PM, and your answer to every question is: “I don’t know, I need to go and ask ___”, then I’m afraid you’re doing something wrong. You might not be able to give engineering estimates, but you should know your team and your technology well enough…
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Kickstarting Potato Salad
In case you missed it (although the tech press have had little else to report on today, it seems), some guy launched a kickstarter project with the ambitious goal of raising $10 to make a potato salad. (Link) The project description: “I’m making potato salad. Basically I’m just making potato salad. I haven’t decided what…