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Your product is about experiences

February 13, 2025

Thinking in goods and services is the most invisible error in digital product work. The experience economy explains why you capture less value.

Product
Your product is about experiences

Your product is about stories

February 12, 2025

When digital product work is represented as a list of tasks, strategy ends up as a footnote. Telling the product as a story is the cure.

Product
Your product is about stories

The challenges of strategy in digital product

February 5, 2025

Strategy in digital product is more about NO than YES: validate in milestones, ship progressively, and sacrifice options to sustain a position.

Product
The challenges of strategy in digital product

Feedback is more powerful than your own intelligence

January 28, 2025

Why a short feedback loop beats the best upfront design in digital product: an organisation's intelligence lives in its loop, not in its head.

Discovery
Feedback is more powerful than your own intelligence

Favour thinking with metrics

January 23, 2025

Many companies whose business is a digital product act innumerately: how to escape that trap without mistaking thinking in quantities for thinking exa...

Discovery
Favour thinking with metrics

Build in order to learn

January 21, 2025

Brooks knew it in 1975: the first system is always a draft. Building in digital product is a method of knowledge, not only a method of production.

Discovery
Build in order to learn

Talk to the people who use what you invent

January 16, 2025

Talking to customers is not for asking them the solution but for understanding the situation: why the interview is still the cheapest instrument you h...

Discovery
Talk to the people who use what you invent

Your product is contexts and intentions

January 15, 2025

From a list of attributes to the course of action: why contexts and empathy decide better what to build, and what to sacrifice, in a digital product.

Product
Your product is contexts and intentions

Cultivate direct conversation

January 14, 2025

Digital product companies are communicative entities: why every intermediary you add to a conversation degrades the very signal you needed.

Discovery
Cultivate direct conversation

Embrace constraints

December 9, 2024

In digital product a constraint is not the obstacle: it is the only thing that turns an open problem into something you can decide on and verify.

Discovery
Embrace constraints
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