I spent the first 12 years of my career, post Law Degree, at a “startup” mobile operator called One2One. It was a joint venture between Cable & Wireless and US West and it became a pioneer in launching the first UK consumer-targeted mobile phone in 1993. It became T-Mobile and is now EE. During my […]
Read More »1-day User Research Masterclass: Developing User Driven Products delivered by Julia Shalet, Product Doctor When is it? Tuesday, 8 March 2016 from 09:00 to 17:00. The course is part of a series from UCL Advances at UCL in London Who is it for? Entrepreneurs, Product Managers, Designers and Marketers who seek a deeper understanding of their customers […]
Read More »It was back to Over The Air last week and a new way to get people to think about reducing risks in the assumptions they make about people. I ran a very interactive workshop where people got to work on their own products. My intention is to make Product Doctor experiences INSIGHTFUL and ENTERTAINING so I was […]
Read More »Yesterday I returned for an afternoon of mentoring on the first day of the new FFWD London Pre-Accelerator cohort. Here are six themes that recurred: 1). Where is it you personally are trying to go? I asked a number of founders where they actually wanted to go with their product – what was their personal […]
Read More »This is extracted from an update that I put on to Linkedin to mark the turn of the year: I want to wish you, my Linkedin friends, a happy, healthy, fun and successful 2015. As I like to maintain an interesting and varied portfolio of work, I always leave time to work on new projects. […]
Read More »We got in to one of my favourite discussions at one of my DIY User Research workshop at FFWD London. I demonstrated how to run a number of different types of research and had the group practice for themselves. One great question was around how diligent to be on fixing user experience glitches. Years of research […]
Read More »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 »I was asked by Bill Best, a valued former colleague from my one2one days, to help create a new venture: an independent firm of seasoned mobile practitioners looking to pool their experience and skills…
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 […]
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