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Feature / Product / Business: A Framework for Sustainable ATProto Projects | ATmosphereConf VODs

The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year! For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses. In this talk, you'll get a practical framework for understanding whether what you're building should be a feature, product, or business, plus concrete funding models at each layer to keep your work going and growing. (More in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/mosh.bsky.social/post/3mckiat2ne22q)

The Stacks Product Manager

Astera seeks a Product Manager to build The Stacks, an open-access platform for sharing scientific knowledge. Join us to lead innovation at the intersection of science and technology.

How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them

People spend too much time writing software relative to speaking to potential customers, prior to launching and after it. Reversing that is a win.

Building what customers need, not just what they ask for - Linear

Notes from our product team on building the tools we use every day.

THE BRAND GAP — MARTY NEUMEIER

How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design

Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business

A couple of weeks ago I dropped into a thread by Mosh Lee, about how ATproto has too many projects and too few businesses. Yes! A few months ago I volunteered to help teams with ops or strategy, and k

Product Design Psychology by Wouter de Bres

Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.

The role of storytelling in the creation of brand love: the PANDORA case

The study of storytelling and brand love is justified by the need to understand the potential of storytelling as a tool that marketers have available to positively influence the love felt by the consumers toward a particular brand. In this case, we ...

Design From the Margins

In an age of virtual connectivity and increased reliance on the internet for daily functions, including by marginalized groups, can companies and technologists reframe their features or standards to support the most marginalized users’ needs? Can the modes of resilience within digital spaces from some of the most marginalized groups be listened to, learned from, and centered when creating technology? Design from the Margins (DFM), a design process that centers the most impacted and marginalized users from ideation to production, pushes the notion that not only is this something that can and must be done, but also that it is highly beneficial for all users and companies. For this to happen, consumer interest conversations need to be framed outside the “biggest use case” scenarios and United States and European Union-centrisms and refocused on the cases often left in the margins: the decentered cases. This report outlines how the DFM method can be used to build our most well-known and relied-upon technologies for decentered cases (often deemed “edge cases” which is atypical or less common use case for a product) from the beginning of the design process, rather than retrofitting them post-deployment to cater to communities with what are perceived to be extra needs.

Minimum Standards of Product Development

Fostering collaboration and continuous innovation

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Once an obscure job title, creative technology is becoming a new way of working, and a core capability inside modern product teams. Soon…