Product Doctor Diagnoses – OTA 2012

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 […]

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Advice for Developers – Product Doctor Diagnoses (OTA 2010)

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 […]

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This year I am the Product Doctor at OTA

Following the success of the Travelling Teen Panels at OTA 2009, I am delighted to be returning to OTA this year as the  Product Doctor. Let’s talk product – how can you maximise your product to reach your objectives? Do you have tight product goals? What user need / desire are you meeting? What is your […]

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Feedback on the Teen Panel from the Music Industry Audience

Featuring Jemima Kiss from The Guardian; Chris Jenkins, Inma Martinez from Stradbrooke and Chris from Gracenote.

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A great user-designed proposition

This story occurred when I was taking real-life case studies to schools. The product was a set of sounds that a user could download to their mobile and insert into phone conversations. The company had various prototypes set up such as a fart machine, each fart was a different type (I will let you imagine […]

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