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Before business value can emerge from your data product, there must be adoption, trust, usabilty and utility. 

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How Adopting a Product Mindset Can Improve the UX and ROI of Your Data Science and Analytics Work

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The work of enterprise data science and analytics teams is often experienced in software-whether it be via custom apps, dashboards, or BI tools. As such, data teams are software teams-but many of them do not build solutions the way the … Read more

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If there’s one thing I see a lot of in my work, it’s dashboards.  I don’t talk about dashboards a ton because a dashboard alone is neither a data product nor an experience. It is an output and artifact that is part of … Read more

My Top 10 Predictions for Data Product Leaders in 2022

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Below are ten 2022 predictions for data product leaders and organizations trying to leverage ML and analytics in their software, tools, apps, and services. From the lens of a consulting product designer. Yea, you head that one right. If that PhD in … Read more

Top 10 Experiencing Data Podcast Episodes for 2021

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Data as Product: Links to Talks and Articles on Building Data Products

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A link list of articles and resources on building data products, and particularly the mind shift involved in approaching data products as just that: products, not projects. Is something missing here? Shoot me an email and let me know. From … Read more

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Why software teams need to look beyond “user-centered” when referring to ML or AI-driven data products

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As a designer, I used to say “user-centered”-a lot. It’s terminology we now hear from non-designers now, people like many of you. That’s a good thing. But, I want you and your teams to think bigger. For me, that “user-centered” … Read more

Heads vs. Hands

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If you’re struggling to solve human problems with data, the mindset of your analytics org may be the problem.