Get the Mental Model right Mental Models are essentially set of best practices in understanding users’ reason for doing things. Designing around it will create delight While Aesthetics play a big role in the immediate impression might be very important as a “buying” feature, often it will fail as a “using” feature if not done in the mental model for a given customer context or usage scenario...
iSPIRT ProductNation Branding RoundTable: Why Product Branding is important for Startups?
As usual, the 16th iSPIRT RoundTable was a great learning experience. Many thanks to Avinash Raghava & iSPIRT for conceptualizing it, and to Helion Ventures for sponsoring the venue and the snacks. Dhruv Shenoy of Knowience Consulting, a well-known Marketing Guru, was the facilitator, along with Rajan from Intuit. Thanks, Dhruv and Rajan, for an educational and entertaining session. I used to...
Are Product Managers Future Entrepreneurs?
Prof. Rahul Abhyankar, Director of ICPM Programs at the Institute of Product Leadership summarized it well in his message to the Graduating Class, “Product Management is more of a mindset change merely skillset” Product Management has many definitions but most experts will agree that its essentially the art & science of delivering delighting solutions to real market problems and doing it...