The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

In this interview, I chat Product Management with Anisha Carter,  Product Manager at Tax Act, and formerly at Intuit. Anisha breaks down the lessons she "unlearnt" by moving from a very established product culture like Intuit, to working on at Tax Act. There are a lot of good insights in this episode for people who want to have the experience of transforming a company to be more product-centered....

What happens when moving fast doesn’t work? How do you define speed? Does the definition of good speed change from project to project? I explore this concept in this edition of my morning walk. Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe

I have my first return guest on the show! Excited to welcome back JB Chaykowsky to talk about his principles of design leadership.  If you are trying to figure out what value design brings to the executive decision making table, this is the episode for you.  Contact JB at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uexui/ https://www.instagram.com/jbchaykowsky/ Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Dami...

Morning walk episode! Today I reflect on politics and the roadblocks that come in every project. If you get any value out of this show, or if it has helped you in any way, please subscribe to “Thinking Out Loud About Design” for free to get the distilled learnings on being a staff-level individual contributor. Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe

This was a bombshell episode. If you want to know if the management path is right for you, I'd give this one a listen.  In this interview, I chat with James Helms, VP of Design for Intuit's Platform, on topics like design management, and how to level up the performance of the designers you work with (even if you are still an individual contributor). Contact James at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ja...

I reflect on my understanding of the value of visual design and how it can help in the job search. Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe

I'm going to introduce you to my secret weapon. My friend, uncle and mentor Red Roze, or to me "Uncle Red".  He has helped me understand the world of marketing and positioning in a way that has changed how I approach work. I can tie a lot of my growth hack moments in my career to his coaching calls.  Red has worked for brands like Tony Robbins and Intel.  Now, he is a successful independent positi...

In one of my morning walks, I reflect on the things that help designers get jobs. I cover the base requirements and then the differentiator for designers with accelerated growth. If you get any value out of this show, or if it has helped you in any way, please subscribe to “Thinking Out Loud About Design” for free to get the distilled learnings on being a staff-level individual contributor. Get fu...

I'm excited to introduce Aladrian Goods, who is a content designer at Intuit.  What is a content designer? What do they do?  Short answer: They make sure your messaging is intentional across the whole product experience.  If that is too general for you, then listen to this episode! We go in-depth on how Intuit pulls off their iconic user experiences with the content design being top of mind.  Cont...

WELCOME TO SEASON THREE! I kick it off interviewing the author of Invison's new book, "Business Thinking for Designers", Ryan Rumsey! Ryan is the CEO of an "Un-Consulting" firm Second Wave Dive, which helps design organizations and individual designers improve their design maturity and better articulate business value. Before that SWD, he was a design executive at Apple and EA. Do we talk about de...

🎉Bonus episode🎉 In preparation for season three, I want to share ideas I have been developing through synthesizing of all my past interviews. When hiring, there is a bias towards hiring people with great visual production skills.  That makes sense, a high level of visual polish gives the secure feeling that their work will transfer to good business outcomes. That will probably work in use cases...

How do you measure your counterpart's critical thinking? What does critical thinking look like? What does it sound like? What are the results of it? In this episode, I have a deep discussion with one of the best critical thinkers in the industry, Albert Packer. Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe

Today, I wanted to learn more about how to work better with product managers. So I interviewed one for the podcast.  In this episode, I chat with Trae Winterton, a product manager at Workfront. Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe

I really enjoyed this interview with @Sean Qureshi from Lucid on increasing learning velocity.    In this episode, we chat about the concept of lean startups MVP and we openly discuss our qualms about it.    We also discuss what is so misunderstood about the lean startup MVP framework.   Sean also shares how product discovery is done at Lucid which allows product teams to increase learning velocit...

We know design is valuable, but how can you unlock its true value and tie your design work to business impact? This show interviews, product designers, product managers, and tech leads from places like Google, Domo, Podium, Divvy, IBM, Intuit, and Uber to find out what makes a valuable product designer and how you can be one as well. Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at www.wa...

How do you know that you're on the right track when performing research? To answer that question, I talked about the subtle art of research rigor with DJ Green, research manager at Jane. In this episode, we take a deep dive into her process of translating research insights into actionable steps that product managers and designers can use to execute great work. If you're struggling to influence pro...

How do you know if you've done enough research? With tight deadlines, competing priorities, and potentially millions of dollars on the line, getting that right amount of research to mitigate the business risk is critical to your product's success.  In this episode, I interviewed Jenny Taylor, a product designer at Divvy.  We take the time to chat about when it's appropriate to apply more rigor to...

All right! You guys are in for a treat!  In this episode, I talked with an OG designer from Silicon Valley, Robin Hayes. Back in the day, he worked on a little thing called TiVo, helping design one of the most iconic user experiences in the history of our profession and helping TiVo become one of the first brands that had a reputation for good CX (which wasn't very common back then). We talk about...

in this episode, I catch up with a buddy of mine to talk about what we have learned from our product design internships, and he has a lot to say on the matter clocking in five internship experiences before settling in his current full-time role outside of school.  The guy I'm talking about is Jacob artisan, who is UX designer, IBM's design studio in Austin, Texas.  We talk about the kinds of inter...

I have a great nugget today on how you as a design org can build stakeholder confidence in the strategic direction that you propose. In this interview, I chat with Matt Davis, who is a UX designer at Lenovo. We talk about the challenge of designing and context switching across a very large portfolio of products  He works on smart speakers. every think pad you could point at and now is working in L...

Hey, product community. I have an idea I want to share with you and I wrote it in an article a couple of months back. It's called don't work for brands. in this essay, I get pretty open about my experience interviewing with Facebook and the introspection I had after not making the cut for the job. I think anyone trying to figure out their career right now needs to hear this message.  there are onl...

Hey listeners,  This episode we interview with Kamalei Logan, a UX designer at Overstock and a former student of the Dev Mountain UX boot camp.  During the interview, we talk about his experience from going to a boot camp to transitioning into the workforce.  One thing we discuss is what path is right for you?  When should you go to a boot camp and when does it make more sense to get a four-year d...

We met Serena when Cam and I visited New York City with our design school cohort to visit companies. She just recently started working there at the end of last year, and she was awesome enough to let us visit the IBM office at Astor place.  In this episode, we talk about leveling up after getting that first role. The game has changed. Before you had a job, you had to hustle and say yes to every op...

We finally got to editing this gem. This interview is with Joey Isaacson, who is a senior product designer at Uber freight.  Before that, he was a product designer at Facebook and before that he helped design Songkick's platform,  Joey was super generous in this episode, breaking down the nuance of getting through multiple design interviews to what managers should look for when they're interviewin...

New format! Audio Articles! Having trouble finding a fit in a company?  In this episode, I share the idea that you shouldn't work for "Tech" companies, you should work for value propositions.  This leads to higher job satisfaction if you are interested in the way of a product designer who wants to build massive value in your products.  If you understand the companies value proposition you can bett...