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Video: Getting the Most from Your User Research

BY Danielle Colyer on June 17, 2015

User Research Throughout the Product Lifecycle was the theme of January’s ProductTank. This video shares Rosemary King’s talk on getting the most out of your user research and interviews, and how to overcome common mistakes. A Product Manager at Pivotal Labs, Rosemary highlights a number of what she calls “user research anti patterns” to highlight Read more »

Thanks for the amazing #mtpcon welcome San Francisco!

BY Martin Eriksson on June 12, 2015

Last week 650 passionate product people from 13 countries and 32 states across the US descended on San Francisco for our first conference in the US, packing the Miner Auditorium at the SFJAZZ Center to the rafters for what proved to be an amazing day focused on the art of building products people love. The Read more »

Being Human in a Digital World: Lessons from the intersection of tech & culture

BY Martin Eriksson on January 2, 2015

Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and leads Intel Labs’ interaction and experience research. She uses qualitative and quantitative research into what people want, their desires, hopes and dreams to inspire next generation product design and technical innovation. In this extraordinary talk at #mtpcon, she provokes and reflects on 15 years of researching the intersection of Read more »

Video: The Reality of Bringing Services into Existence

BY Janna Bastow on November 26, 2014

“Every product is a service waiting to happen” was the theme of ProductTank in October. This video shares Max Gadney’s talk on the reality of bringing services into existence. Max Gadney is the leader of After The Flood, a data design agency developing strategy and services and creating digital products and film. Prior to this, Read more »

Video: Turning Commoditised Products into Value-adding Services

BY Janna Bastow on November 18, 2014

This video captures Tim John’s talk from October’s ProductTank, which was about “Every product is a service waiting to happen” Tim Johns is a product manager for Hive – British Gas’ corporate start-up. He has been responsible for the development of the Hive Active Heating service, launched in October last year. Prior to his current Read more »

Alex Osterwalder - Designing your Value Proposition

BY Martin Eriksson on November 14, 2014

In this video, Alex Osterwalder– the author and inventor of the Business Model Canvas, a tool to visualise, challenge and reinvent business models – talks about his next book: Value Proposition Design. He leads the MTPcon audience through an exercise to help identify the jobs their product should do and the gains and pains of Read more »

Video: How Can a Product Influence Activity, Nutrition, and Lifestyle?

BY Janna Bastow on November 13, 2014

The theme of October’s ProductTank was, Every Product is a Service Waiting to Happen. In this video, Paul Landau addresses how a product can influence activity, nutrition, and lifestyle. Paul is the CEO and Founder of Fitbug, which he formed 2004, and 9 years on delivers a range of wellness solutions through a platform to Read more »

Leisa Reichelt - Changing organisations to improve products

BY Martin Eriksson on November 7, 2014

Leisa Reichelt, head of user research at the UK’s government digital services, spoke to us at Mind the Product 2014 about how good design and good team work can create great innovative products, even within slow moving and conservative organisations. The key is to change the DNA of the organisation. In this talk Leisa shares some Read more »

Fred Destin - You need to embrace chaos to succeed

BY Martin Eriksson on October 31, 2014

Fred Destin, partner at Atlas Ventures and 12-year veteran venture capitalist, talks about the increasing pace of change in the world, the chaos that can create and how we can thrive in that chaos. In this inspiring talk he lays out how difficult it is to predict and define success in today’s fast-paced society. He 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 »