Why Companies Will Increasingly Have to Learn to Run Partially-Remote Sprints — Covid-19 caught most of us unprepared, and we at Remake Labs perhaps more than most. …

8 Things Google Ventures Knows About Design, Strategy, and Risk — I am a Product Designer, and through my agency Remake Labs — a kind of Head of Product for hire. What that means, broadly speaking, is that I am in charge of identifying and distilling customer needs, researching the capabilities of competitors, creating product-market fit, prototyping and testing solutions to…

My Chat with David Peter Stroh — I’ve always believed that we can have a positive impact by better understanding the world around us. For the past 7–8 years or so I’ve been fascinated with Systems Thinking as a tool to understand the world around us: from organizations to societies, from people to ecosystems. That’s why it…

A Poem by Yanka’leh Rothblit “היא חזרה בתשובה”; Composed by Matti Caspi; Translated from Hebrew by Eran Dror — So I fell, struck down, My soft sob sounding odd, They said that she too, Had gone and found God. The Righteous impart her, The rules of the Awed. She’ll never again grace My sinful abode. She is wrapped, head to toe, Without even a crack, Snowy white breasts covered, In modesty’s sack. Her…

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A Key Aspect of the Design Mindset — A few days ago, I released my interview with Dave Evans, the founder of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University, about designing a joyous life. There is too much wisdom in this one short interview to discuss it all here — about life and about product design — but…

How to Run a Design Sprint to Improve an Existing Product — The Design Sprint wasn’t designed as a way to improve existing products, but to be the first week in the life of the product. And it is structured that way: expert interviews are relatively open-ended, sketches start from a blank slate, and there is no place for user feedback, analytics…

How the Art of Non-Action Can Transform Your Work — [ This post is part of my Spiritual Design series, where I will occasionally share thoughts about how looking at ideas and practices from spiritual traditions through a designer’s eye — can help produce beneficial secular practices for the 21st century. ] These days, I find myself explaining to coworkers…