Category: User Experience

• “Sprint” [Day 1] (Book Review)

  

  In my previous post I started looking at doing 5-day sprints to discover and test solutions for a problem that you’re trying to solve. This follows my reading of “Sprint” by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz. Once you’ve set the stage for a sprint, it’s time to kick things off: the first day of…

  marcabraham

  September 1, 2016

  Agile, Design, Digital Strategy, Lean, Measuring, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, UX

• “Sprint” [Setting the stage] (Book Review)

  

  I personally find it very encouraging to see that more and more companies go down the route of experimentation and continuous discovery. Businesses are starting to realise that committing to a single solution upfront and implementing it in the hope that it will be successful can be a very risky strategy. “Sprint – How To Solve Big…

  marcabraham

  August 29, 2016

  Design, Digital Strategy, Google, Product Management, Startups, User Experience

  design, Google, product management, strategy, technology, UX

• My Product Management Toolkit (13): Continuous Discovery

  

  I know it’s a bit of a bugbear of mine; people coming up with assumptions and jumping straight into solutions to address their assumptions: “I know what my customers want”  “I know that I’m right” “I’ve got umpteen years of experience in this sector, I know what people want” “We’ve defined all customer requirements, we now…

  marcabraham

  August 20, 2016

  Agile, Product Management, User Experience

  Agile, design, lean, product management, UX

• Midpoint: peer-to-peer foreign exchange

  

  I’m increasingly getting the sense that everything is possible in FinTech, at least from a peer-to-peer (‘P2P’) perspective. For example, marketplace lenders like Funding Circle and Zopa are all based on a P2P model whereby borrowers and lenders can transact directly. I recently learned more about P2P foreign exchange services by listening to an episode…

  marcabraham

  May 18, 2016

  Digital Strategy, FinTech, Product Management, Startups, Technology, User Experience

  FinTech, product management, strategy, UX

• Azimo (Product Review)

  

  Money remittance is big. Think Transferwise, WeSwap and World Remit; services that simplify the way in which to transfer money, offering attractive rates and a great user experience. Another good example is Azimo which I used to transfer some money to my motherland, The Netherlands: Fig. 1 – Screenshot of Azimo’s welcome screen on iOS Fig. 2…

  marcabraham

  April 9, 2016

  Design, Digital Content, FinTech, Product Management, Technology, User Experience

  design, FinTech, product design, UX