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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

BY The Product Experience on February 6, 2019

Ken Norton needs no introduction. Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! to run its Product organisation.  He then joined Google, where he worked on Maps, Calendar and Docs. Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving Read more »

What is it Like to Hold Google in Your Hand? by Ivy Ross

BY James Gadsby Peet on December 14, 2018

Google’s aim is to organise the world’s information and make it universally useful. From this original mission it has moved to making hardware such as Google Home. In this #mtpcon London talk, Google’s VP Design for Hardware, Ivy Ross, describes the challenge for her team of working out what it felt like when you held Read more »

More Than Great Products: A Journey to Product/Market Fit

BY Liam Smith on April 6, 2018

Once upon a time I believed that to be a successful product manager, I simply had to create great products. The rest would fall into place, right? Not quite. I this post I’ll explain how I learned the importance of being obsessed with the market – the problems people are facing and the people facing Read more »

Building Products AI-First by Aparna Chennapragada

BY Martin Eriksson on July 14, 2017

This article is part of our AI Knowledge Hub, created with Pendo. For similar articles and even more free AI resources, visit the AI Knowledge Hub now. Over the last 5-10 years our computer’s ability to understand our voice commands and pictures have made dramatic leaps forward – from barely being able to understand simple commands Read more »

All the Awesome Speakers for #mtpcon SF 2017

BY Martin Eriksson on April 18, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. But most importantly, we are thrilled to bring you some of the best minds in product and design from around Read more »

Metaphor and Stories in Product Management by Elizabeth Churchill

BY Martin Eriksson on October 21, 2016

Product managers are the vision setters and story tellers of a business, according to Elizabeth Churchill, a Director of User Experience at Google – it’s their job to tell compelling stories and engage users. At this year’s London #mtpcon, Churchill, who is a psychologist by training, gave a presentation full of insight and practical takeaways, Read more »

10x Not 10%, Product Management by Orders of Magnitude by Ken Norton

BY Martin Eriksson on December 17, 2015

History is littered with companies who missed the boat on big new innovations and optimised their way to obsolescence – from Kodak inventing the digital camera but shelving it for fear of cannibalising their film revenue, to Swiss watchmakers inventing the quartz watch movement but letting the Japanese eat their market with it. Ken Norton Read more »

Video: Going from Meh to Awesome by Shiva Rajaraman

BY Martin Eriksson on October 9, 2015

Shiva Rajaraman has a long record building amazing products across YouTube, Google and now Spotify and joined us at Mind the Product in London to share some of the lessons he’s learned along the way. Relish the random Every product out there has been hacked, extended, or reused by its users in some way, and Read more »

Irene Au - Design is as important as technology

BY Martin Eriksson on October 24, 2014

Irene Au, operating partner at Khosla Ventures, led the user experience team at Google for six years and the user experience and design team at Yahoo! for eight years. In this talk she looks at how the different views of design at Google and Yahoo affected the companies. What was it about Yahoo’s organisational structure Read more »

What would you do as a Product Manager on Google+?

BY Sam Collins on January 13, 2012

My real gripe with the Product Vision behind Google+ is… it doesn’t appear to have one. Forget the criticisms of Google+ tactics – instead let’s take a look at their strategy and get constructive. In order to make this worthwhile, we first have to reverse engineer what the goal of Google+ might be. I don’t Read more »