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The Product Experience

Product Design

What good product design looks like – Miguel Fernandez (VP of Product Design, Slack)

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

10x Product X Design: Product and research team collaboration by Jane Austin

Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

User Experience (UX)

Learnings from London: What is it like to hold Google in your hand?

Product Leadership

Product Management Conference

Product Strategy

Product/Market Fit

Video

Learnings from London: How to build a billion dollar app

With a career founded in writing, I pivoted to Product, enjoying the challenges offered by managing diverse products while bringing clarity of communication to my work. I&#39;m passionate about seeing how fast the space is evolving, and always interested to be part of the conversation, whether as a contributor, or writer.

Jon Horvath

San Francisco

Product Systems: How to manufacture lightning in a bottle by Oji Udezue

Emily brings nearly 15 years of product management experience to her role as Managing Director for Mind the Product. While she has worked across a variety of industries, she will always have a soft spot for the travel industry where she spent most of her early career building software for airlines and developing a leading consumer travel app, TripCase. Emily is passionate about the craft of product management and loves talking about new ways to make products people love.

Emily Tate

Product EQ

Product Ethics

First, Do No Harm by Mariah Hay

In 2005, Gibson Biddle joined Netflix as VP of Product.  In 2010, he became Chief Product Officer of Chegg, a textbook rental company that went public in 2013. Today he speaks, leads product management workshops, and teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford. He’s also an adviser for multiple consumer tech companies. Gib lives in San Francisco and tries to ski his age in days each winter!

Gibson Biddle

Product Development Process

Product Management Career

Customer Obsession by Gibson Biddle

Dustin specializes in Product Portfolio Management in vertically-integrated suppliers of highly-engineered products, with direct experience in global B-to-B and B-to-C routes to market. During his career, Dustin has led the introduction of many new product solutions for aerospace and defense, industrial safety, transportation security, emergency response and law enforcement applications. He is a graduate of the doctoral program in Physical Chemistry at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the MBA program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his research efforts have been supported by fellowships from the National Research Council and National Institutes of Health.

Dustin Levy

Product Launch

Product Management

Managing Manufactured Products: Preparing to Launch

Paul is an entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience in startups, product development and marketing. He is co-founder of AsqMe, a technology platform that enables content creators to aggregate and monetizatize audience questions. He is also founder at UnLock, a boutique consultancy that helps clients achieve product-market fit. 

Paul’s prior exits include Karen.care, a SaaS platform that helps families care for aging parents, and KOR Water, a consumer products brand that Outside Magazine called the “Apple of sustainable hydration.” 

Previously, Paul held senior product and marketing roles at Adobe, Sony and Microsoft. He holds a BA from Purchase College, an MBA from Indiana University&#39;s Kelley School of Business, and a Masters in Human-Computer Interface from New York University.


Paul Shustak

5 Lessons in Designing Physical Products for Software Product Managers

User-centered design and research leader who works with startup, post-IPO and Fortune 100 enterprises to establish methods, practices and a culture that put the customer at the heart of business decisions. He’s a digital pioneer and award-winning information graphics and design journalist that led the newspaper industry to the internet. When he isn’t struggling to write interesting bio blurbs, he is spending time with family, serving on a community board and practicing iterative techniques with a barbeque smoker.  On twitter @billskeet

Bill Skeet

If you Love Design, it's Time to Stop Liking it

With his background in technical editing, community building and product marketing, Chris' approach to product management is inherently centered around user narratives. He spent the first few years of his career working with the B2B developer products, prototyped an experimental technical publishing platform along the way, and then kick-started the Mind the Product platform. You can find him at ProductTank, or on twitter as @camassey.

Chris Massey

Data Driven Product Management

Building Product in a Post-GDPR World

Ines Oliveira is a Service and Product Designer at Adaptive Lab. She’s spent her career solving problems in London, Paris, Lisbon and Porto. Ines has experience with different methodologies and types of projects: from digital services and products to creative direction, and design languages for brands to digitally evolve; from large scale platforms, to modular toolkits.

Ines Oliveira

What Blocks our Empathy in the Design Thinking Process?

Yael is passionate about applying behavioral psychology to building great products. With a background in Neuroscience, she has consulted several brands on delivering valuable products and experiences to customers. Yael lives in New York City and is currently a User Engagement Associate at Quid, a SaaS platform that analyzes unstructured data at scale, where she works cross-functionally to ideate, build, and launch new products. Yael is also a co-organizer for ProductTank NYC. To find out more, visit http://producttank.nyc.

Yael Burla

Using Habit-Forming Technology for Good by Nir Eyal

Jenny is an entrepreneur and product operations consultant who helps product teams trying to make dramatic changes and make them stick. She helps them through fractional VP of Product services, coaching, and her course, Product Operations and Infrastructure. Learn more about her at www.jennywanger.com.

She brings over a decade of product management experience. She co-founded the pandemic-tech focused TCN Coalition and merged it with LF Public Health and previously led the consumer product team at SpotHero.

When offline, Jenny is usually up in the mountains outside of her home in Colorado hiking and skiing with her family. 

Jenny Wanger

Product Psychology

How can you Respond to the Rise of the Privacy-Conscious Consumer?

Alex is a product and experience designer at a design and innovation consultancy Adaptive Lab. His previous experiences cover a broad range of industries, culminating in a passion for new product and service innovation. He’s also increasingly interested in the social and psychological impact of technology.

Alex Menczykowski

Product Management Skills

Tobacco, Drugs, Clickbait: Are Designers Dealing in Digital Addiction?

Dr Christoph Tempich works as chief data economist at Inovex GmbH, an innovative service provider for digital transformation projects. He watches over the economic aspects of digital transformation and takes a strategic view on data economics. Furthermore, he supports companies in defining data products and improving their digital business models. Customers include mobile.de, 1&amp;1, Robert Bosch, Deutsche Telekom, Allianz. He is an invited speaker for the success factors of data products, for applying machine learning and deep learning and for managing change in digital transformation initiatives. He received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe in 2006, where he carried out research on applications of artificial intelligence. Follow updates on Twitter @ctempich.

Christoph Tempich

The Fundamentals of Building Better Data Products

Mike is the Managing Director and VP of Product at Moonshot by Pactera EDGE, a global innovation studio based in Chicago. Mike leads a team of digital product managers, experience designers and researchers, and engineers helping brands use design thinking and lean innovation to discover, design, and scale lovable products based on emerging technologies. Mike is also an Adjunct Professor of Mindful Product Management at Northwestern University's Segal Design Institute and the McCormick School of Engineering.