Category: Product
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So… this happened
Like an aging AAA slugger called up to the majors, like a prep-school outsider starting college, like a choreographer with bad knees getting access to the biggest stage, I find myself leading the product management chapter at 18F as it celebrates its tenth anniversary. 18F is a consulting entity in TTS (Technology Transformation Services) in…
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Super friends
Between recording sessions and working for the state, I’ve been planning a redux of the one-day remote Design in Product conference and just posted a video over on Linky-Din promoting it.
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In the public sector, what’s the product?
UX Lisbon has now put up online their video of my closing talk from last year’s conference. I listened to it again this morning and I think it holds up and still captures how I feel about the work I am doing. I will be giving an updated and vastly briefer version of this talk…
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The 12 Pods of 2022
Twelve podcasts of 2022
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Social Patterns II: The Social Interfacening…
It’s starting to feel like time to update ye old Designing Social Interfaces, so Erin Malone and I are talking to the kind editors at O’Reilly about doing a second edition. Because user experience, we are doing some research, including a survey. If you work with social interfaces, apps, websites, or experiences, please consider taking…
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Where I’m writing from
When Apple brought the touch screen and the tablet together they kicked off a new revolution, one that moves us all one step closer to direct manipulation of the digital world at our hands. As a writer, I suppose I have naturally gravitated toward the realm of writing and editing, where we’re still following “word…
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It’s the users who are mobile
Still playing catch-up. I wrote this guest blog post for the Hightail blog about eleven months ago, before some of my pals, um… hightailed it to greener pastures. It’s the clearest statement I’ve made yet about both the “tablet first” and “holistic ubiquitous user experience” approach we’ve been taking at CloudOn, so I am going…
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Mentoring for America
Nearly a year ago, on my birthday, my contribution to the “why I…” series at the Code for America went live. I’m reprinting it here to keep a copy in my own storehouse, and because I am mentoring for the accelerator again this year: I’m mentoring for America because I believe that a small-team startup-style…
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When did web designers start calling themselves product designers?
Read Quote of Christian Crumlish’s answer to When did web designers start calling themselves product designers? on Quora see also Since when did all web designers start calling themselves UX designers
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Tune In, Cloud On, Rock Out!
One thing about working real hard is that a lot of things I’d love to post about never seem to make it to the top of the queue, and then the blog turns into “here are my slides, here is a video of my talk, here is a weird song by the band, here is…