Fresh Ideas

  Pluralsight is looking to change the way the world learns, and they are using data and human-centered design to do it. That may sound like a big goal, because it is, but I wouldn’t count them out. James Aylward is the…

Have you ever taken a training course or read a book to learn a new skill? Of course you have. Hopefully the instructor/author was interesting, engaging, and you learned exactly what you set out to learn. And then something happened between learning…

Design Sprints were once thought to be the exclusive province of startups and small organizations, but that is simply not the case. To the contrary, we are seeing massive organizations, public enterprises and government agencies rack up successes using this time-boxed method to…

Who should talk to users? The answer is EVERYONE should talk to users. That means designers, product managers, sales, marketing, and yes, engineers. Without user research, how will you know you are building products that people will want? But on small, cross-functional…

Did you know that the $700M GPS sports watch business was started by a fifth grader who created a lawnmower out of a coffee can, a fan, and a crutch? Well, sort of. Claudette Stevenson was on the forefront of the GPS-enabled…

Product managers mostly hate roadmaps, says Phil Terry, who put it even more bluntly in the title of his article product roadmapping sucks. Serial Boston entrepreneur and current Drift.com CEO David Cancel generally agrees: Some have even gone so far as to…