For product managers

Human Insight in a Startup: Rallying Around Customer Needs is a Team Sport

A product manager shares his journey from creative to design to product, and lessons he learned about each role

A Product Practitioner’s Playbook, Part 2: Aligning Teams With Evidence

How to align product teams and business stakeholders around an evidence-based understanding of the customer

Business Empathy is a Mindset, not a Year

The growing embrace of empathy in business is very welcome, but don’t overthink the problem

How to Use Human Insights in the Idea Stage of Product Development

A Guide for Product Managers, based on an example from Airbnb’s Categories concept

Great Reading on Human Insight Issues

Product waste, Maps wars, democratization done right, and the salty reality of being a UX researcher

A Product Practitioner’s Playbook for Building Successful Products

Customer (in)validation strategies across the product life cycle

How to transform a category: Lessons from Amazon and One Medical

The financial rewards for transforming a category can be immense, but the barriers are also huge and not necessarily obvious. Amazon’s attempts to reform healthcare show that distrust and overpromising can be two of the biggest risks.

Discovery Phase Made Easier: The Joy of Self-Interviews

Needs discovery is critically important but often neglected by busy teams. There’s a faster, easier way to do it through online self-interviews.