Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast

This time, Christian and Alex talked about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its advantages and potential downsides.   Table of Content: 00:30 - Turn off your notification 01:55 - What AIs do already these days 04:50 - Strong vs. weak AI 08:00 - Losing human interactions 11:50 - Good data & diverse teams   Book recommendation: Competing in the Age of AI   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

In this episode, Christian and Alex talked about how they organize their time and todos.   Table of content: 00:30 - Episode Intro 02:30 - Using spare time to be productive 04:10 - Color coding the calendar 05:10 - Blocking time in the calendar 07:45 - Declining meetings 09:45 - Manage the stakeholders 12:10 - Documentation & tooling    Christian's Meeting Course: https://www.christianstrunk.com/courses/meeting-facilitation    ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Christian Idiodi is a partner at the Silicon Valley Product Group. With his experience, he helps product and leadership teams across the globe to solve their customer problems. In this episode, he shares the biggest challenges that product teams have and how especially leaders can help and empower product people to solve those.    Table of content: 00:30 - Episode Intro 02:10 - Intro Christian Idiodi 03:50 - The biggest challenges product people have 08:25 - Missing empowerment from leadership teams 13:35 - Prioritizing doesn't work without strategic alignment 19:25 - Supporting the leadership team as a product manager 25:45 - Keeping the strategy updated as a leader 27:35 - The #1 tip every PM should follow 30:10 - The #1 tip every product lead should follow 32:15 - Micromanaging CEOs   Follow Christian Idiodi: Linkedin: @cidiodi Twitter: @CIdiodi Website: https://svpg.com/   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

This time Alex and Christian focused on a topic that they haven't talked about at all. Ethics! Both discuss how current products tempt to become more unethical and what to do about it.  Table of content:  00:30 - Episode intro 02:10 - Dominated by white people 06:40 - Ignoring minorities  08:55 - Balancing ethics in your organization 09:50 - Are product principles a solution? 11:30 - No regulations in tech 14:25 - Discrimination on Twitter Books links:  Technically Wrong Ruined by Design   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Christian recently read the book "The One Thing" which reminded him how important it is to focus only on one thing. Together with Alex, they've discussed the key learning of the book and how to apply it to your day-to-day product life.   Table of content: 00:30 - Intro 01:15 - Multi-tasking & context switching 05:50 - Identifying your own one thing 08:05 - Focusing on only one thing 09:30 - Tips to get started   Book link: The One Thing   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩   👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery   📸 Instagram: @productbakery   🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20   🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

The Product Bakers touched a couple of times on the topic of case studies as part of the hiring process. Alex has a very strong opinion when it comes to overall candidate experience. Therefore, they've decided to dedicate this episode to talk about the downsides of case studies and why it makes good candidates not start working for your company. Table of content: 00:30 - Small talk 01:30 - The downsides of case studies  05:40 - Understanding how candidates think  07:50 - Why companies need to rethink their hiring process 12:30 - Respect peoples' time ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

In this episode, the Product Bakers discussed their experiences around structuring organizations in hyper-growth and what mistakes leadership teams should avoid doing.    Table of content: 00:30 - Intro episode 02:40 - Basics to structure an organization 04:40 - The Spotify model 06:45 - Why copying models don't work 08:35 - Taking a look at the company culture 10:25 - Mistakes to avoid 11:15 - Autonomy vs. anarchy 16:05 - Summary Article & book recommendations: https://www.christianstrunk.com/blog/organic-organizations Exponential Organizations Scale Up   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Jill is a strategic and visionary ex-Experience Director with over 12 years of experience. She currently works for Bain & Company as one of their most senior Designers in EMEA. Throughout her career, she has led and helped international companies and start-ups to innovate, to instill a human-centric design approach, and to grow. She designs interactions at the intersection of people, products, and environments, and brings out incremental and revolutionary changes for the people she designs for. She's worked in London, New York, Abu Dhabi, and Taipei. Her clients include Sony, Tiffany & Co., Kellogg's, BP, BT, Jaguar Land Rover, HSBC, Macquarie, and more.   Table of content: 00:30 - Episode summary 03:00 - Intro Jill 05:00 - The definition of strategy 08:30 - Enabling innovation with strategy 10:20 - In-house agency vs. embedded teams 12:30 - Strategic design vs. service design 16:00 - Design & product strategy 19:30 - The biggest strategic challenges companies face 26:20 - Combining design & product strategy 30:00 - Ensuring a holistic design in cross-functional teams 35:40 - 3 Tips if you work on/with a design strategy   Follow Jill: Linkedin: @cyjilllin Twitter: @jillybeanlin   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Biases are part of human nature. In this episode, Alex discussed with Christian the importance of understanding and identifying your own bias.   👉 Episode feedback survey ✍️   Table of content: 00:30 - Intro & small talk 02:10 - Asking biased question during interviews 04:10 - Common "biased" mistakes  05:50 - Stereotypes 07:05 - Being over-excited  09:25 - Disproving your biased opinion 11:50 - Understanding the most relevant biases    Article about biases: https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/user-research/how-to-overcome-cognitive-bias-in-ux-research/   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

I don't care who does the work; I do care that we solve the problem! That was one of the great quotes from Jonathon talking about what content design is and why it's so important to think about it.  In this episode, the Product Bakers and Jonathon discussed how to establish content design in a company and what positive impact it has on the UX and success of a product/business. 👉 Episode feedback survey ✍️   Table of content: 00:30 - Episode Summary 01:40 - Intro Jonathon 02:55 - The definition of content design 08:25 - Collaborating with product people 11:05 - Adding content designers to teams 13:10 - Measuring the impact of content design 16:00 - The role & responsibilities of a CD 19:15 - Desing principles 25:25 - When and how to hire a CD (team) 33:15 - Dealing with languages & internationalization 35:10 - Branding & Marketing 41:05 - The future of content design   Follow Jonathon:  Linkedin: @jcolman Twitter: @jcolman Intercom product & design principles: https://www.intercom.com/blog/intercom-product-principles How Jonathon maximized the impact of content design at Intercom Intercom's design team site and job levels for product and content designers Are you being clear or clever? A guide to narrative design Kristina Halvorson, Erika Hall, and Mike Monteiro talking about content Books on content design: Content Design, Strategic Writing for UX, Writing is Designing Events for content design: Design & Content, Button, Information Architecture Conference   ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/