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Designer's Guide to Product Vision, The: Learn to build your strategic influence to shape the future, 1st edition

Published by New Riders (August 2, 2020) © 2021

  • Laura Fish
  • Scott Kiekbusch

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Today, design is a critical business competency, and designers need to play a leadership role. This guide helps you transform yourself into a strategic designer and take your seat at the table where key decisions are made. Youll master a breakthrough process for creating innovative product and service visions and translating them into high-value market offerings.
Defining an effective product vision requires deep discipline and multiple skills. Drawing on their pioneering experience, Laura Fish and Scott Kiekbusch guide you through every step, helping you organise strategy, plan for innovation, and tell a clear story of your customers future experience.
Once you've defined a strategy-led product vision, make it real. The authors agile Visioneering techniques help you navigate fast-changing product journeys iteratively and continuously improving experiences while staying aligned with your mission and purpose. With these tools and insights, you can lead business-critical projects today, shape your companys future, and achieve more than you ever thought possible.
Learn How To:
  • Move from tactical to strategic designer, and gain a more influential leadership role
  • Create strategy-led product visions the organisation can rally around and deliver
  • Lead the unification of design, engineering, and business to mindfully craft outstanding user experiences
  • Go beyond obsolete roadmaps to implement product visions in a world that wont stop changing
  • Influence and improve the long-term direction of your business to effect real-world positive change
  • Designers: Level up your skills to start influencing stakeholder decisions at the highest levels
  • Move beyond UX/UI and placing pixels: start playing a strategic role in your organization
  • Use the product vision “compass” to lead digital product journeys in a fast-changing agile world

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  • Part I: The Calling
  • 1. The State of the Designer
  • 2. Re-Design School
  • 3. Master Class: First Principles Thinking
  • Part II: The Vision
  • 4. Getting Started with the A-Team
  • 5. Strategy: Connecting the Dots
  • 6. Telling the Story of the Future Experience
  • Part III: Visioneering
  • 7. Setting Your Compass by Your North Star
  • 8. Building Your Visioneering Practice
  • Afterword: Purpose Driven
Laura Fish is a modern designer focusing on strategic product vision that can shape big change for the better. Drawing on fifteen years embedded in digital product programs and user experience teams, she can now speak to hard lessons learned and expertise gained that have led her to redefine her professional purpose and make the changes needed to level herself up. She is now dedicated to helping fellow designers do the same, acting as a visioneering sherpa to guide the journey.

Scott Kiekbusch is a digital product strategist and designer with nearly 20 years of industry experience. Scott has built & led digital product design teams, participated in the design and delivery of websites & applications enjoyed by millions of users, and helped mature the product design practices of several organizations. In his free time he enjoys playing & listening to music, traveling, photography, and periodically posting hot takes on Twitter @adjustafresh. He currently resides with his family in the Indianapolis, IN area.

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