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Teresa Torres

Bend, Oregon

Teresa is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. She has taught over 16,000 people product discovery skills and is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

Weekend Reading: A Product / UX Rant, Choosing Metrics, and Setting Goals

Each week, I read dozens of blogs, countless articles from my Twitter stream, and one or two books. In Weekend Reading, I highlight the best, as it applies to developing great products. Who Owns Your UX Philosophy? Brad Feld in Feld Thoughts I have a lot of respect for just

3 Use Cases For Better Communication With Kindling

I recently rolled out Kindling, an idea management app, across my company. If you aren't familiar with idea management apps, there's no shortage of them. This blog lists 44. The idea is to get more people involved in idea generation and evaluation. The various software packages

Weekend Reading: Experimenting, Deliberate Practice, the Rise of Paperbacks, And Much More

Each week, I read dozens of blogs, countless articles from my Twitter stream, and one or two books. In Weekend Reading, I highlight the best, as it applies to developing great products. The $100,000 Experiment | Brad Feld in The Wall Street Journal "A long time ago, I realized

Be Truthful, Be Concise, Be Relevant, Be Clear

Whether it's dashing off a quick email or laboring over user stories, how you communicate can have a big impact on the outcomes you drive. Writing well is a critical product skill that you should deliberately practice. As an undergraduate, I learned about Paul Grice's maxims

What do you want to see on Product Talk in 2013?

Thank you so much for reading Product Talk. I'm committed to making it even better in 2013, and need your help. I'd love it if you could take 3 minutes to fill out a quick 5 question survey about what you would like to see on

Looking Back On The First Year of Product Talk

I started Product Talk in November 2011. It's been a great first year of blogging. I've learned a lot. Some posts that I thought would be hits didn't gain traction and others that I thought would be sleepers really took off. More importantly, I

Ignore the Competition, Talk to Your Customers Instead

I love this post, Do You Care More About the Customers or the Competition?, by David Meerman Scott on Web Ink Now. Take a minute. Go read it. Everywhere I've worked, people on my team have been obsessed with the competition. Every day they read about who is