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  • 5 Lessons for UX and ML to work together – a DDD Talk

    5 Lessons for UX and ML to work together – a DDD Talk

    In 2018 at Developer, Developer, Developer in Sydney, my talk 5 Lessons for UX and ML was selected. It was a feat of extreme love for this subject matter, and a synthesis of everything I had learned at CSIRO’s Data61 at that point. I find the content still has relevance, as we still are not…

  • Create a Simple, Early-Stage Product Roadmap in One Workshop

    Create a Simple, Early-Stage Product Roadmap in One Workshop

    When working on a product, who doesn’t want to know where the whole thing is going? Where the North Star is? Products that fail to articulate where they’re going and what needs to be done to get there are doomed. It’ll be slow, a trickle of disillusioned staff leaving, and a general sense of decline.…

  • Adapting SWOT into GOKU – A Workshop Exercise

    Adapting SWOT into GOKU – A Workshop Exercise

    It has occurred many times in early stage discovery work with new technology that there is a considerable amount of work being done in disparate places. Oftentimes the customer of the product and the user are the same people. In this situation it is incredibly useful to create a SWOT like exercise. This is an…

  • Data Expectation Mapping – A Workshop Exercise

    Data Expectation Mapping – A Workshop Exercise

    This is a quick exercise that I find works well in workshops and you are free to copy. When should I use a Data Expectation Map? When we are doing workshops with people who do very complex things with data the amount of context and nuance in their activities can overwhelm something like a workshop.…