ProductTank

In our E-Commerce and M-Commerce themed ProductTank, Aziz Musa (@azizmusa), the digital director at Pegasus, talked about his own experience in e-commerce, pulling all-nighters with his team to get the mobile experience at Photobox up to scratch. He explored what compromising on beauty does to your customers, partners, organisation and even your soul. Aziz Musa Read more »

ProductTank June focused on Product Management In M-Commerce and E-Commerce, looking at what product managers need to consider when building online and mobile shopping experiences. We learned a lot from insightful talks by Tara Etherington (Ribot), Aziz Musa (Pegasus) and Dave Martin (Pocket Recruit), who drew from their own experiences. The event was curated by Read more »

Presenting at ProductTank May London, Catharina Lavers Mallet (@catharinamallet), head of studio at King, told us all how product management in games is different – it’s about fun, not necessarily about solving problems. Read more »

Presenting at May 2013 ProductTank in London, Paul Croft (@Bouncinglemon), production director at Mediatonic, who showed us how a data-driven approach complements the quest for fun, particularly in the world of gaming-as-a-service (GaaS). Read more »

Presenting at May 2013 ProductTank in London, Martyn Jones (@ElvisBacon), product manager and game designer at Mind Candy, who spoke to us about validation and iteration during product discovery.  Using the ‘double diamond‘ design process as his guiding theme, Martyn entertained us with his unique combination of hand-crafted slides and visual puns to draw out Read more »

Yep, we were really turning the fun factor up to 11 at ProductTank London last week.  We had three insightful and delightful speakers – Martyn Jones, Paul Croft and Catharina Lavers Mallet – all giving us the benefit of their experience as product managers in gaming.  The evening was curated with aplomb by Marc Abraham Read more »

Chris Russell, Executive Product Manager for BBC News, talks about the BBC’s responsive design strategy. The BBC strategy today is about one service with 10 products across 4 screens – tablet, mobile, desktop and TV apps. But of course there are far more than 4 devices and far more than 4 use cases – for Read more »

Silicon Milkroundabout is a jobs fair that matches the UK’s start-ups with the best developers, product managers, and designers. For the first time, together with Mind the Product, they are putting on a “Product Management & Design” day this year for jobseekers in the fields of Product Management, Intelligence/Analytics, and UX Design (Interaction Design, Visual Read more »

As ProductTank rounds its second year, we’ve built up plenty of momentum to start spreading out to other great cities around the world. Last month, we held our first non-London event, in Manchester, under the guise of ProductTank North. This month, we’re moving even farther afield, with our first ever transatlantic ProductTank. Every year, tens Read more »

At the last ProductTank event, Jesmond Allen, UX director at cxpartners, spoke about what UX people want from PMs and they can best work together. Having had experience in both roles, she outlined the difference in job descriptions, pointing out that, in fact, the two roles were more alike than not. She identified this overlap Read more »