Boost design impact using the The Seven Powers

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy has been around for nearly ten years. It’s full of wisdom for business strategists. And it’s useful for designers too. What is Power and how can you use it to guide your design effort? I’ve put together a simple summary and a “four-step process” to help guide your …

How UX designers get a “seat at the table”

Getting a “seat at the table” is a dream/complaint UX designers have been famous for making, for years now. It’s shorthand for something like… “Why does my org do such weird things? Why am I excluded from the real decision-making process?” I ended up doing a talk about this for the Friends of Figma Meetup in …

Product quarterly planning for focus and speed, part 2: Objections and practicalities

View Post Quick recap You really need to read part 1 before this post, or it won’t make much sense. But the TLDR of part 1 is: Nutrition factsAI-generated content in this article: None.Where this pattern applies: Software scale-ups, 100-200 people. But it may apply more broadly.Warning: Applying the wrong technique/pattern for a given context …

Product quarterly planning that creates focus and speed

I want to give a specific, proven recipe that product leaders can follow to get product squads clear and aligned quickly, so they can focus on delivering great results fast.This post gives the core ingredients and principles. In the next post, I give some step-by-step instructions and templates. Nutrition factsAI-generated content in this article: None.Where this …