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What I Learnt From Being a ‘Product Team’ of One

With a career in product teams, this is what I learnt being a solo designer and developer.

Jul 10

What I Learnt From Being a ‘Product Team’ of One

Jul 10

Design is a team sport

Rejecting the ‘rock star designer’ trope — deisgn force for good in unifying teams and processes towards a common goal

Jan 23

Design is a team sport

Jan 23

The Balancing act — the challenge of product design’s dual focus

Digital design weaves between detailed execution and big-picture thinking, requiring constant context switching for impactful experiences

Dec 18, 2023

The Balancing act — the challenge of product design’s dual focus

Dec 18, 2023

Emergent Practice versus Formulaic Production

Digital Design transcends feature assembly. It’s about emergent practice and iteration, key to creating software that resonates.

Dec 7, 2023

Emergent Practice versus Formulaic Production

Dec 7, 2023

How telling the business that you can’t trust our users, leads to ways you can trust users more.

Recognising user data’s unreliability in product design is crucial. Using diverse research methods transforms this challenge into…

Nov 28, 2023

How telling the business that you can’t trust our users, leads to ways you can trust users more.

Nov 28, 2023

Digital expereinces are better designed non-digitally

Drawing, beyond a simple sketching tool, sharpens thinking, aids problem-solving, and enhances digital design through its tangible process.

Nov 22, 2023

ChatGPT generated image showing a pencil sketch version of a user interface for an iOS travel app

Nov 22, 2023

When user research gets in the way of users.

Effective user-centered design requires broad research to uncover latent needs, going beyond obvious user statements for deeper insights.

Nov 13, 2023

When user research gets in the way of users.

Nov 13, 2023

Feature-Driven vs Connection-Driven Design: recognising the often ignored levels of user experience

Beyond features: Digital design’s core is connecting users to narratives.

Nov 7, 2023

Feature-Driven vs Connection-Driven Design: recognising the often ignored levels of user experience

Nov 7, 2023

‘Dual track’ is often just another ‘feature factory’

Merging Agile and Design is a challenge. Places I have worked have adopted a ‘dual track’ approach, and all have had problems.

Jun 20, 2022

‘Dual track’ is often just another ‘feature factory’

Jun 20, 2022

Making the right thing.

Great teams I have been involved have always been keenly focused on understanding their user as the basis for building the right thing.

Nov 2, 2021

Making the right thing.

Nov 2, 2021

Tim Allan

Tim Allan

https://timallan.io Fmr: Design Manager for clinical care @ Babylon. Fmr Lead Design/research in Urgent & Emergency Care at NHS.uk. RCA MRES

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