What color should this button be? We can only do x and y, but not z, before the deadline. Can we live with that? Sales requested a, b, and c. Which should we do? The CEO had a new idea and asked if it’s worth pursuing. As product builders, we make decisions all day every […]
Read Decisive and Make Better Product Decisions
Over the past 3 months, I’ve written a number of posts inspired by the book Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath. I’m a big fan of their work and so much of the research from Decisive is directly applicable to building great products. I highly recommend that everyone read it. If you need help applying […]
Don’t Make Snap Product Decisions
This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. Do you ever find yourself making snap decisions? An engineer asks you for more detail on how a feature should work. You hadn’t considered that specific use case before. So you come up with a solution off the top of your head. Or […]
Don’t Overcommit to a Bad Idea
This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. At the World Domination Summit 2013, Jia Jiang gave an amazing talk about his experience following his dreams. When he was young, he saw Bill Gates speak, and he dreamed of starting a company someday. But like many of us, life intervened. Jia went to college, […]
