Fail Faster

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Fail Faster episodes

  • #245 - How to PM Your Career

    Alex Weingart returns to our show to build on his last topic "How to PM Your Life", this time focusing on treating your career as a product, and managing it accordingly. Alex (who has served as Director of Product & Design for TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, as a product lead at CBS and Microsoft, and will soon be joining Shopify as a product leader for their consumer app Shop) draws on his experience as both employee and hiring manager to share key product frameworks you can apply to career planning and job transitions. He discusses everything from identifying goals for each stage of your career to evaluating your current job and other prospective jobs in light of your goals. And, if your current job falls short, Alex shares key tactics to conduct a successful job search, from top-of-funnel cold emails, to interview prep tips, to compensation negotiation. If your work life has felt stuck (regardless of your stage in your career), this is the episode for you.

    39 min
  • #244 - Reducing pollution in software design

    Neil Milliken, VP - Global Head of Accessibility at Atos. Atos is a global leader in digital transformation. Neil shares what accessibility in design really means. What are the key things to be thinking about as responsible designers who bring products to life, how can these products reduce unintended consequences on the environment or individuals? Neil shares how organizations need to be thinking about decarbonization as they design products. Neil unpacks using sustainable practices as we create UI designs that are inclusive to writing accessible code that leads to successful interactions.

    35 min
  • #243 - Nobody fails like a winner fails

    Troy Azmoon, Vice President, Platform and Product Design at ServiceNow joins me to share his intriguing journey through Engineering, Product, and Design. You will enjoy his analogies of how he brings creative thinking into hard core engineering work. He brings another intriguing concept as a leader that in order to be successful, we need to learn to say NO to our ego, our preferences in service of the bigger Mission.

    25 min
  • #242 - There is always room for more customer interaction in every business

    Adam Kesner, Senior Director of Product Management - Common Retail Services at Cox Automotive, joins us to share his approach and techniques he loves as he moves from a solution based into a more enterprise-focused design environment. What makes a product launch successful, how to approach data security as designers, there is a lot packed in this short episode.

    23 min
  • #241 - What is this UX research stuff?
    Sal Bolaños is the Director of UX & Design at TransUnion. He shares some of his epic failures as a new Design practitioner who is trying to shake traditional ways of working. He shares his journey of taking calculated risks and moving the needle to make trust possible within the internal teams and with the customers, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things together.
    18 min
  • #240 - The product is for your user NOT you!
    Eduardo D'Oracio de Almeida, is the Director of Engineering Innovation at BrandSafway joins us to share his amazing journey of embracing problems as opportunities to create unique solutions. In the world of critical construction deadlines with around 8000 ongoing jobs at one time and a large team of 30-40,000 construction crew to manage Eduardo follows a principle of taking no shortcuts and keeping the safety of his crew at the forefront. He says when he wakes up every morning, he can't wait to go to work and serve in a way that matters.
    29 min
  • #239 - New Feature vs Better Performance of a Popular Feature
    Mohit Goenka is the Director of Engineering at Yahoo. Mohit leads the Yahoo Mail Android app team, he shares the golden rules of managing a global team. Driving a simple and effective team-building culture to keep everyone involved is important to him as a leader. His shares about the recent in-app enhancements his team has launched for Yahoo mail, those are perfect examples of thinking about the user first. Finding small and big opportunities to improve an experience might be a gamechanger for the end-users than giving them new features they might not use. Wouldn't your users stay with you if the UX tells them that you are continuously iterating products thinking about their ease?
    18 min
  • #238 - Take your time to frame the problem
    Rene Insam is the Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Solutions, Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. He brings a thought-provoking perspective on delineating the ongoing digital transformation vs intense business transformations. Maybe it's time for organizations to look into creating space for a transformation backlog to bring about deep-rooted cultural breakthroughs in addition to our ongoing work. Rene has some great thoughts on how companies could expand their brand capacity using an experimentative approach to enrich their client relationships.
    27 min
  • #237 - Your competition is the last best experience your customer has had
    Amit Shivale, Director, Head of Product Strategy & Growth at Avant shares the importance of being mindful and looking at what really matters in life and at work. What cost we assign to what value is a choice we make everyday in every role. Translating these concepts into product design is fascinating, Looking at products as a friction point between customers and the task they want to accomplish changes the perspective of how we look at products, these points of friction now become new opportunities for experiments. This new role makes designers the new product partners of the customers leading them into a future of connectedness. Do check out the recently launched premium Avant Cash back Rewards Card that Amit is celebrating.
    28 min
  • #236 - Translating service design into business outcomes
    Claire Kwon is the Senior Director of Product Design at BlackLine, a software development company enabling companies modernize accounting operations with intelligent automation. Claire shares her unusual path into the product design world as she navigated the world of art as an art critic to a museum curator who wanted to bring these unique experiences with all their details into software design. She takes pride in bringing her learnings to the new generation of designers as she educates them.
    29 min

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