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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. What problem is your product trying to solve? Who are the customers? Wireframes?

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Designing UX with Willy Lai, recent Apple UX Design Director

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 -- Designing UX with Willy Lai, recent Apple UX Design Director. Lai’s hands-on workshop teaches designers, product managers, marketing managers, and engineers how to design successful user experiences for software products and services across devices. Email willylai@willylai.com.

Design 100
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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

“Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. More people are focused on the beginning of the product lifecycle; very few are focused at the end.”. Buyers then can bid on the goods. That’s our vision.”.

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Create a great product – the three-step dance method

Berkonomics

Can you create a product in a vacuum? Creating a new product in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that you know what’s best for the customer, perhaps even without interaction with such a customer. On the other hand, most products or services are created in response to a real or perceived need.

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Have you found your “teacher customer?”

Berkonomics

I internalized this phrase, recalling the many times I had partnered with customers to design new feature-functionality into my hotel computer system back when such systems were brand new to the industry. Next week we will focus upon product quality and its effects upon the organization. We have explored feature-functionality.

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Take this test to predict your success:

Berkonomics

If your vision is for a product or service that fills a need in a mature industry, you may be flying against the prevailing winds as a market shrinks over time, taking your business with it. Email readers, continue here…] Have you created high barriers to entry? Can you translate an idea into a compelling product?

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Clues: How to think like a growth CEO

Berkonomics

Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review. From their book, “Designing for Growth,” they iterate a four-question matrix, each with steps for creation through launch. Then let’s design it so it will wow.

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