These questions came up in a recent round of Drop in Surgeries that I held and I thought they may be useful to share. 1. How do you test an idea where you are creating a desire, rather than providing a solution to a problem? Firstly, you need to work out the user’s context: where […]
Read More »Here’s the report from this year’s Product Doctor Drop in Surgery at OTA 2012. Another interesting range of products; from making a good old phone call, through to tracking housekeeping budget, m-health to enhanced status posting and finishing with around the world travel. From what I saw in the surgeries, a few trends were certainly […]
Read More »Last week I mentored 13 start ups in 2 days at Start Up Weekend Education London (#swel) and at Ignite100, where Katrina and I ran a Product Doctor Drop In Surgery for the teams in Newcastle. One of the consistent themes was that teams were not thinking about their Launch Strategy early enough. If you read the below, you will […]
Read More »This year at Over the Air in Bletchley Park, Katrina and I set up a Product Doctor Drop in Surgery offering 25 minute complimentary sessions. On a scorching couple of days, we set up outside and were happy to have a continual stream of patients, including the wonderful @Documentally and @Bookmeister. Listening carefully, as we always preach, we are […]
Read More »This is a webinar, that I did for the DCK TN and Mobile Monday London, 27th Jan 2011, and should be of interest to people that want a closer understanding of the youth market. Through my experience in mobile and online community products since 1993, despite much time, effort and cost, I have seen many products […]
Read More »This is a webinar, that I did for the DCK TN and Mobile Monday London, 27th Jan 2011, and should be of interest to people that want a closer understanding of the youth market.  Through my experience in mobile and online community products since 1993, despite much time, effort and cost, I have seen many products […]
Read More »This year at Over the Air 2010 (OTA) I set up a Drop In Product Surgery for mobile developers, which focused on how to make their products more commercially successful. OTA is a two day grass-roots mobile developers event which is in its third year and offers an interesting schedule of keynote speakers (Sir Tim Berners-Lee headlined […]
Read More »Back in August 2009, I spotted a posting on the online Space Makers Network from a Lambeth Council officer who was interested in doing something creative with empty shops. I grabbed Dougald Hine, the founder of Space Makers, and went down to meet him. That was how we came to be introduced and was introduced to […]
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