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Making your product more accessible

BY Peter Bricknell on May 19, 2022

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. But why should Product Managers care about accessibility? In this post, we’ll tell you a quick story and the tips learned… Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: An ethical sanity check — what would trolls do?

BY Louron Pratt on February 6, 2022

In this Sunday Rewind, we delve into a blog post by our very own Emily Tate, who explains why it’s important to address the risks that our products have on our users Read more »

Creating ethical product principles

BY Josh Hart on November 4, 2021

Recent news on Facebook’s job advert bias is an unfortunate example of the responsibility all product people need to be aware of: what we build impacts the behaviour of our users for good or ill. It raises the importance of ethical product principles. Read more »

Privacy by design: flipping the script on privacy in product

BY Rob Shavell on August 31, 2021

For tech giants like Apple and Google, user privacy has traditionally been seen as something to avoid rather than a selling point for their products. However, driven by changing consumer sentiment and mounting political pressure, the same companies that previously appeared to approach privacy as an obstacle are now pushing it to the forefront of Read more »

The influence of psychological safety on product management

BY Sebastian Straube on July 20, 2021

Psychological safety has recently become one of the buzzwords in many workplaces. Many leaders might understand its importance but they often misunderstand what exactly it means and how to establish it. Read more »

Integrating social responsibility into product development

BY Kevin Mireles on July 6, 2021

It’s time to add socially responsible to the current product-development trifecta of desirable, feasible and viable. It’s no longer enough to focus on building products that are desirable for customers, feasible to build, and viable for our organizations. We need products that are socially responsible as well. Read more »

How To Prioritise Ethical Practice as a Product Manager

BY Imogen Schels on February 19, 2021

In this Product Ethics panel for Mind the Product members, Martin Eriksson is joined by Cennydd Bowles, Kathy Pham, and Pavani Reddy to discuss ethical product practice. Watch the panel in full! About our Panellists Cennydd Bowles – Author, Future Ethics Cennydd Bowles is a designer and futurist with nearly two decades of experience advising Read more »

The Ethical Challenges of Building Dating Apps

BY Ana Kirova on February 19, 2021

Dating apps occupy a strange place in our world. We operate within people’s intimate lives and as a product team, we build exceptional expertise on attitudes towards dating, sex and connection. This means we carry great responsibility and are always aware of the decisions we make. To us at Feeld, ethics have been something so Read more »

Responsible Thinking for Product Managers - Expert Advice and Steps for Success

BY Eira Hayward on February 18, 2021

So many missed that a profanity filter would prevent the residents of Scunthorpe from creating an AOL account, that the use of sat navs could ruin previously quiet streets for their residents, or that a social network for university students would end up interfering with democracy. Building responsibly isn’t a headline topic for every product manager. Mozilla Read more »

How To Make Ethical Choices When Developing Software – Common Questions, Answered

BY Pavani Reddy on February 16, 2021

There are some questions about the practice of “ethical product development” that I’m asked all the time from folks actively working on products. For example, how do you define an “ethical” product? Or who should lead ethical product development? And, can you really make a difference from inside an organisation? Below, I answer the eight Read more »