PITA 008

Gaming keeps us sane:

Azul | Board Game

Escape the Dark Castle

Quarantine Resources - quarantine

TOPIC 1:

How do you handle product interviews/questions with people in the product space who already know all of the tricks?

• It can be a positive - you can get more relevant info and skip some of the preliminaries

• Get rid of structure - just get them to talk, and their human side will come through, their real thoughts

• Getting the value prop can be especially hard in this case

• Get them to tell you stories about what they have gone through, not what they want

• Ask the same question different ways

• Ask the colleagues of the product person as well

• We know they know but they don’t know that we know they know - reminded me of FRIENDS

TOPIC 2:

Developing or maintaining my Personal brand (speaking, writing) when employed

• Negotiate as a group if the structure is too rigid. But read your contract carefully if it has intellectual property clauses

• Check internal processes and sign-off requirements

• Find events that aren’t related to your company

• Start speaking internally on the topic

TOPIC 3:

What does radical Product work look like? (influence on society, not just individual users)

• Try working for charity, gov’t, s-corp or b-corp with social elements to the mission

• Focus on the service design

• Focus on using product thinking to the org structure and senior management approaches

• Review the company mission, value, etc - does this have the right focus? Use that to flow through

• Coaching and mentoring others 

• Ghandi: "be the change you want to see in the world"

• What data do you have and how can you use it? Invisible Women book

• Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism

TOPIC 4:

Any ideas on user acquisition strategies for Voice products (Alexa skill, Google Home apps, etc.)

• Does voice enhance the experience? For Whisky, can you add a prompt to the bottle to start a tasting?

• Make sure it has a real use case

• We’d love to see Google’s statistics on how many people say ‘Stop, Google!’ or ‘Stupid Google!’ (or Siri, or Alexa…)

• Your insight-driven guide to designing for voice

• It has to replace another habit

TOPIC 5:

Super lean product Discovery tips and best practices to do by yourself (without an UX etc experts)

• User Story Mapping - https://jpattonassociates.com/story-mapping-quick-ref/ 

• Do extra research, competitor analysis, read reviews of competitors

• Timebox it - it can be endless

• Ship something, anything