In this talk, Jesse Owens, Director of Product at Mastercard discusses purpose driven product development. This presentation took place during #ProductCon NYC, the biggest product management conference in the world!
3. “To empower communities around the world to
live in a progressive and frictionless society
through technology.
Personal Mission Statement
Become a servant leader
4. Selecting the Right Company
1. Align your core values with the company vision
2. Understand the company business model
3. Embrace the purpose of the company as it relates to
community
4. Be Your Authentic Self
Authenticity is Key!
6. What does this mean for the Consumer Experience?
1. Possess an Insatiable Desire to Delight Users
2. Build Great System Models of Product Components
3. Design Interaction Patterns to Ensure Consumer Success
Consumer Empathy will transcend your
product
7. Deep Understanding of Cognition
“ is what goes on in our heads when we carry out our everyday activities that
involve thinking, remembering, learning, daydreaming, decision making, seeing,
reading, writing and talking.
Experiential Reflective
Don Norman, Author of Design of Everyday Things
Thinking, comparing,
decision making
How we perceive, act
and react to events
8. Design Principles
1. Affordances exist to make desired actions possible (ie. Tabs in Web Browser)
2. Signifiers ensure discoverability and that feedback is well communicated (ie.
SignUp Button)
3. Mappings establishes a relationship between a control and their action
through spatial layout
4. Constraints provide logical, physical or semantic guides to ease interpretation
5. Feedback provide continuous information about the results of actions
6. Discoverability allows a user to determine what actions are possible
7. Conceptual Model provides the user the mental building blocks to use the
product
10. Understanding the Triumvirate
“a group of three powerful or notable segments within a company
that’s responsible for being products to life.
Product
What are the
strategy pitfalls?
Design
What are the
consumer
constraints?
Engineering
What are the
technical
challenges?
11. Distill Value Patterns Across the Triumvirate
Apply Value Proposition to introduce
change
1. Understand the patterns of value creation
2. Create Customer Profile of Your Stakeholders
3. Create Value Map for Target Customer (ie. Stakeholder) Segment
4. Avoid wasting time on things that don’t work
12. Create Your Stakeholder Profile
1. Gains (What’s the desired outcome or benefit YOUR stakeholder is seeking?)
2. Pains (What are some of the risks or bad outcomes related to YOUR
stakeholder jobs)
3. Customer Jobs (What are YOUR stakeholders trying to get done?)
13. Create a Stakeholder Value Map
1. Gain Creators (How can YOU can create stakeholder gains?)
2. Pain Relievers (How can YOU can alleviate stakeholder pains?)
3. Product Services (What skills can YOU offer that’s valuable to the product
team?)
15. Assess Your Personal Skills Gap
Embrace your technical & functional debt
1. Self Evaluation
2. Plan out your Professional Development Roadmap
3. Strategically Execute On Your Skills
4. Practice, Practice, Practice
16. My Personal Development Roadmap
1. Public Speaking
2. Business Acumen
3. UX Design
4. Interaction Design
5. Mobile Development
17. Summary
1. Select An Environment Where You Can Flourish
2. Build a Relentless Desire to Understand Consumer Empathy
3. Understand the Needs of the Triumvirate
4. Embrace Your Skills Gap and constantly build a roadmap to level up
Become a servant leader and purpose-
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Editor's Notes
Product Journey
Engineer in Finance
Founder turned company
Family Dynamics
Caribbean American
Instill a sense of responsibility to do work for your community
how I grew up instill principles that apply to professional and personal
Product shouldn’t be looked at a job more like a lifestyle
Being your authentic self to deliver a shared vision
how does this relate to consumer experience?
Customer Empathy will touch the way you design/architecture and the interaction to experience
The intersection of Product Design x Engineering
in order l deeply understand who you’re serving you first need to know how the mind works
Walk through the definition and 2 types
frameworks for life
collaboration
Needs of your team
Focus from external to internal
Alignment
Application of the Value Proposition canvas
Understanding your stakeholders is key
engineers
Clear, Easy and technically sound
Tool or Service to help them in there current
Self Evaluation
Use veserial responses of your audience to tailor how well the message responates
public speaking was my biggest fear
HR Business Partner
Emgering needs of Product team
Assess skills amount