Designing products people love
"How can you create products that successfully find customers? With this practical book, you'll learn from some of the best product designers in the field, from companies like Facebook and LinkedIn to up-and-coming contenders. You'll understand how to discover and interpret customer pain, and learn how to use this research to guide your team through each step of product creation. Written for designers, product managers, and others who want to communicate better with designers, this book is essential reading for anyone who contributes to the product creation process"--Back cover.
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- Read "Designing Products People Love" by Scott Hurff.
Good TLDR to start from is "From idea to paying customer" in Linen blog[0].
[0]: https://www.linen.dev/s/linen-community/t/545988/from-idea-t...
- I have enjoyed many books the past months from HN suggestions:
- Release It!
- Designing Products People Love.
- Refactoring UI
All are great books and I will keep refering to them in the future. Do you have any other suggestion for me?
- I’m 37 and have recently started a role as head of product.
Although my background is in design, I’ve spent the last 15 years variously doing design, ux and web development. I got into it as the previous person left suddenly and I sort of took over and was doing it a while before it was made official.
Product management is a mix of ux, development and business, so it helps to have an interest and understanding of these things.
For me the biggest change has been going from solving problems to finding and articulating the problems for the team to solve. I’ve had to hold myself back from getting stuck in to finding answers so that I allow the team autonomy and also don’t accidentally short circuit the process.
The LEAN Startup is worth reading, as is Designing Products People Love by Scott Hurff, and The LEAN Product Playbook. Strategise by Roman Pilcher has some good stuff on business strategy and innovation theory. I signed up to a free trial with Safari Books Online and read everything I could in the time. Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning has some good videos too.
