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What do a bunch of health tech companies I’ve examined over the past few years have in common? Quite a lot in fact. But one things sticks out - neat...

The conversation around AI in product management has become tactically obsessed. Every article offers prompt libraries or promises faster...

The feature factory is dead. Long live the people factory. After two decades of product leadership evolution, we've finally reached a tipping point....

Stickies, RIP? Has AI Killed the Design Sprint? Short answer: the five-day, “everyone in a room with Post-its” ritual is pretty much a memory...

It has taken me years to hone discipline with my gym and fitness routine but is now a baked in habit aka ‘lifestyle’. This means a 5am something...

A while back I wrote this piece ‘Should CPOs write user stories’ - in essence what I was getting at was not really whether CPOs should write user...

With AI products and integrations seeing no sign of letting up it is easy to see why product teams might want to jump on the bandwagon. Imagine for...

How did we get here? Not a day goes by without LinkedIn telling us AI is great, AI is bad, we should ignore it, augment it, use it, it can replace...

Things move faster now. And this means that everything around us had to adjust - the way in which we work, what teams we build, technology choices...

Ever wondered why the products you love just seem to defy all the ‘best practice’ smarts that you try and instill in your teams? Sad truth is, real...

If there’s one lesson I learnt when I was embedded at Google’s ‘Grow with Google’ a few years back and immersed myself in the world of learning and...

I’ve been busy working on some client work so it’s been a moment since I’ve shared a Product Magic post, and there’s no better moment than now!...

I’ve led or advised on the launch of over 30 digital products in the past two decades. From early-stage apps scrabbling for product–market fit, to...

Recently I was brought in to audit a dating application, with one huge caveat - for some reason the team couldn’t get access in time to any...

I’ve always thought of myself as a product designer or strategist at heart and wound up a CPO almost by accident. Over the last 20 years the world...

Whilst Figma has been around for years, I saw design teams fall in love with it and ditch Sketch in droves during COVID. Long story short, the UI...

Why Evidence-Based Research is Crucial for Health Tech Products — Even Lifestyle Apps Whilst working with a stealth start up recently we found in...

With Ai being such a buzzword in health tech in 2025 I hark back to my days at Healthily where I quoted Garry Kasparov from his brilliant talk at...

In yet another move that seems ripped straight from a corporate dystopian novel, Donald Trump has vowed to end remote work for federal employees,...

Even as he is being sworn into office, Trump, who famously championed the ban on TikTok in the US during his presidency, now appears to be reversing...

I remember a designer in a start-up I co-founded years ago would always ask about our exit strategy. Being one of the first employees he seemed...

XR is moving fast. I remember seeing IKEA’s ‘Space’ product years ago and it made total sense. Cut to today and there are tons of great XR design...

Every so often I find myself coaching people I’ve worked with in the past or those recommended to have a chat with me about their careers, goals,...

AI and LLMs like ChatGPT are revolutionising the world of product design (Amongst other things!). Whether you’re sketching wireframes, crafting user...

  In 2010, designer Harry Brignull coined the term dark patterns to describe user interface (UI) designs that deliberately manipulate users...

As a product person with over two decades of experience, I’ve witnessed product roadmaps evolve from static plans to dynamic tools for alignment,...

I love minimalism, I hate clutter. I love the gov.uk website for example - it really IS the best place to find government services and information....

I guess it had to happen in the design world at some point. Much in the same way that tech teams have moved away from hardcore Scrum, the one size...

Amazingly I see product teams continue to ignore or pretend accessibility standards don’t exist when building mobile applications. One of the most...

When I started out as a product designer many years ago I never imagined that one of the most wonderful aspects of the world of product management...