Jake and Jonathan

Jake and Jonathan

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Jake and Jonathan episodes

  • 81: The Secret Product Trick NO ONE WILL EVER TELL YOU ABOUT... except us
    Jake & Jonathan go on a Play Date, literally not figuratively. Jonathan likes products that are made by teenagers---if they are also engineers. What is Withered Technology and how can you use it in your next meeting? Also, Jonathan asks Jake some totally relevant product questions.Ā 
    Show notes: https://productbreakfastclub.simplecast.com
    50 min
  • 80: This is a Serious Problem (not clickbait)
    Strap in for silly one! If you love Jake & Jonathan rambling about nothing in particular, this one is for you! Reviews make Jake cry. Jonathan doesn't like being misunderstood. Jake has no ego. Jonathan gets a bad coffee rating. Jake has a fancy toaster. šŸž
    Show notes: https://productbreakfastclub.simplecast.com
    46 min
  • 78: 4 Product Books you HAVENā€™T read
    Jake & Amr talk about some books. Jake talks about books that influenced the idea that would later be part of the Design Sprint. How non-design books can help product designers. Facebook's redesign. Email. Distractions. Stuff!
    Show notes: https://productbreakfastclub.simplecast.com
    58 min
  • 77: $32 Million Website Redesign OOPSIE BOO BOO
    Jake & Jonathan talk about the messiness of gigantic projects in the design world and how they're set up to fail from the start, all in the context of the recent scandal with Accenture.Ā 
    Show notes: https://productbreakfastclub.simplecast.com
    51 min
  • 76: We were WRONG about VR
    The podcast is back to normal this week. Which means thereā€™s a whole lot of rambling and very little structure. Jonathan gives a few updates on his company (AJ&Smart) and mentions heā€™s looking to hire a few people. Then the boys talk VR and some book recommendations.
    Show notes: https://productbreakfastclub.simplecast.com
    49 min
  • 75: How to Found a Startup and Sell it toĀ Google
    Jake interviews ex-Googler Xander Pollockā€”one of the first people to run sell Design Sprints outside Google. They cover a bunch of topics, such as:
    - Starting a company
    - Raising fundingĀ 
    - How Google made the decision to buy Xanderā€™s company
    - Building relationships, no ego, directness
    - Salary negotiations & making career decisions based on money
    - Going independentĀ
    1 hr 9 min
  • 74: Design Ruined Everything
    Jonathan's not here this week. So Jake is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart. Deja vu, anyone?
    Hereā€™s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode:
    - 01:00ā€”Amr's journey to becoming a designer
    - 19:20ā€”Apple & VR
    - 31:20ā€”Snap's new Snap Kit
    - 45:40ā€”Pinterest's approach to growth
    - 51:50ā€”The moral & ethical implications of design
    1 hr 8 min
  • 73: Steve Jobs VS Steve Ballmer (not clickbait)
    Jakeā€™s not here this week. So Jonathan is joined by Amr from AJ&Smart to talk about a little more about Apple (since they had their media event a couple weeks back); compare Appleā€™s leadership with Microsoftā€™s; and how to approach working on a ā€œboringā€ product.
    Hereā€™s a peek at the topics discussed in this episode:
    - Innovators vs executors
    - Has Apple become boring?Ā 
    - Whoā€™s running product at Apple?
    - How Steve Ballmer ran Microsoft
    - How success can set you up to be disruptedĀ 
    - Microsoft is interesting now..?!
    - Companies should focus on doing *boring* well
    - How do you pitch a boring product?
    - Innovation is overratedĀ 
    - The importance of framing in product design
    51 min

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Jake and Jonathan (formally Product Breakfast Club) is a behind the scenes look at how some of the best companies in the world design their products. Jake Knapp, NY Times best-selling author of…