Adam Nash
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. Note: On September 16, 2022, I wrote a post about Figma after the announcement of a $20B acquisition offer from Adobe. As it turns out, that acquisition didn’t happen, but this story deserves to live. So this post has been updated to reflect the journey to...
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #11 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, The third, and final, article of my series on UX measurement, “Seven heuristics for identifying proper UX instruments and metrics,” has been published on the ACM Interactions blog. It all started with a...
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #9 ⁂ Dear readers and friends, I hope this issue find you well. In today’s newsletter, I want to focus on two things: A new article about product management. Stewart Brand’s “Access to Tools” philosophy and how I want to use it for this...
Adam Nash
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. On June 25, 2013, Dylan Field, one of my favorite interns from LinkedIn dropped by Wealthfront headquarters in Palo Alto to catch up and get some advice about his new startup, Figma. At the time, I was up to ears with work as the new CEO, trying to sell...
Adam Nash
Some personal news to share today. After a great tour of duty at Dropbox, I’ve decided to take the leap into something new. Having a January birthday has always added a little weight to my New Year’s resolutions, and as it turns out, 2020 was a big one for me. 45 might not be the biggest...
Adam Nash
On October 8, 2019, I was asked to give my talk, “Be A Great Product Leader” to a huge audience at Amplify 2019, the product management conference organized by Amplitude.* The talk is named after possibly my most famous blog post on the topic of product leadership from 2011, Be A Great Product...
Adam Lynch
Adam Lynch
Duncan
A while ago a client asked me into their office. “Do you think you can help us set our mobile strategy for our the next version of our app?” When I looked at the reporting that was being generated it was all but meaningless. They were what is well coined as ‘vanity metrics’, created to make...
Adam Nash
One of the fond memories I have of my first two years at LinkedIn was coming into the office almost every Sunday to spend a couple of hours with Reid Hoffman. Our conversations covered a wide range of topics, but the time ensured that we were fully aligned on the strategy of the company and the...
Adam Lynch
Duncan
Ok, maybe a little clickbaity as a title. But fundamentally this concept is true from an innovation perspective. Who steals from whom? While co-founding EveryCity in 2007 I worked with a lot of start-ups, agencies and a few corporates. Over those two years the following became very clear,...
Adam Nash
Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to work in a variety of different functions. No matter whether it is engineering, design, product, or service, every role has its own unique set of requirements and challenges. Maybe that’s why I have always believed strongly that software...
Adam Nash
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road...
Duncan
Marty Cagan heads up SVPG (Silicon Valley Product Group) and is a veteran product leader. This 1h46 talk of his at the Lean Product Meetup 25th January 2018 is really great stuff. He shares some of the key insights from his book ‘Inspired’ which is a worthwhile read if you want to be a real...
Adam Nash
As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time. On a recent trip out to The Counter in Mountain View, Jordan (who is 8) was really struggling with a large maze puzzle on...
Adam Nash
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Today, AirBnB announced that it had reached a settlement with the city of San Francisco on how to effectively register and monitor legal listings in the city. I am a huge fan of the company, and it seems like a positive...
Adam Nash
A few years ago, I wrote a few posts to outline the requirements for exceptional product leadership: In “Be a Great Product Leader,” I focused on three key responsibilities: strategy, prioritization & execution. In “Great Product Leaders Win Games,” I focused on deliverables in the first two...