Prodity: Product by Design

Evie is a product consultant who has taken her experience as a product leader and now works with companies to help them grow their products, refine their product strategies, and shift their focus. On this episode, Kyle and Evie discuss how product managers can grow their careers, both within companies or moving into product consulting roles.

We also discuss managing your career in the context of your broader life vision and goals. And how what makes great product managers and great product teams. As well as bridging the gap between expectations and reality for ourselves and our teams as we align around priorities

Evie Brockwell:
Evie is a Product Leader who has gained valuable insights into what it was like to grow a PM career successfully. Now she's on the path to find the perfect balance between career satisfaction and life, all whilst consulting with huge businesses & continuing to learn and grow in the product field.

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Book: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Links: Down Dog Yoga

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With extensive experience in mobile gaming, as well as spatial data and real estate, Beau Button co-founded Atlas Reality, a mobile gaming company that bridges the digital and physical worlds. On this episode, we discuss how he’s created augmented reality games like Atlas Earth, plans for Web3 games like Atlas Mars, and the future of blockchain in gaming, content creation, and beyond.

We also discuss our favorite old school video game consoles from NeoGeo to Commodore 64. And the future of AR/VR, designing games in VR, and the future of the metaverse as a presentation layer. As well as the use of artificial intelligence in gaming and software development.

Beau Button:
Beau Button has been actively involved with software development since he was 11 years old. He got his start learning about computers around age 9, digging into the hardware side of things first, and eventually picked up software development at age 11. Having spent most his career as a serial entrepreneur working in the government space, Beau has now transitioned into the mobile gaming space through his company Atlas Reality, Inc. Beau has become a technology & automation enthusiast, even in his personal life. He spends a majority of his time outside of work building through 3d printing, and is very passionate about hunger/food scarcity, education and veganism.

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LinkedIn: Beau Button

Links: AtlasEarth.com

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Curt has worked with brands like Harley Davidson and Nike, and we discuss the lessons he’s learned--such as the importance of embracing constraints, being authentic and creating user experiences that consider everything from the first time a user encounters a brand or a product all the way through to the end. We also discuss the importance of all stakeholders, from customers to employees to society at large, and how we can design across the multi-stakeholder landscape.

Curt Schreiber

Curt is the Chief Creative Officer at VSA Partners, a brand-led customer experience agency that works with companies like Nike, IBM, and Harley-Davidson. Throughout his career, Curt has been honored by several design and communications organizations such as AIGA, Cannes Lions, and Cooper Hewitt.

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LinkedIn: Curt Schreiber

VSA: vsapartners.com

Magazine: Magazine B

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Ahmed has been utilizing technology to help people and businesses since an early age. With over 20 years experience in AI, he’s now helping democratize the power of artificial intelligence so everyone can extend their own capabilities through AI. In this episode, we discuss the potential of AI, using synthetic agents to augment and optimize your work, and the future of technology. We also discuss how having aligned digital agents will not only make us more productive, but give us the ability to focus on the most meaningful areas of life.

Ahmed Reza
Ahmed Reza is the CEO and founder of Yobi, a company that simplifies customer relationship management for businesses.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedreza/

Books: Life 3.0, Faster Cures by Mike Milken

Phone: 667-220-7187

Yobi: https://yobi.app/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AhmedRezaT

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahmedrezat/?hl=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AhmedReza

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Most design tools we use now are desktop tools. But we are increasingly in a mobile world. So why don’t our design tools allow us to use the medium we’re designing for? That is the question Dan from Play began exploring with his other co-founders. As design software has continued to evolve, we need to be closer to the actual medium and the materials of that medium.

Dan LaCivita

Dan LaCivita is an entrepreneur and servant leader who has built, grown and led successful teams and businesses for over 20 years.

His latest venture, Play, is transforming how teams create mobile products by empowering them to design, build and experience their product in real time—all on the medium they’re designing for—their phone.

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LinkedIn: Dan LaCivita

Books: Outlive by Peter Atia

Links: CreatewithPlay.com

Twitter: @createwithplay

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Peter started as a musician but shifted his focus to technology as he discovered problems that needed to be solved. In this episode, Kyle and Peter discuss product-led growth for young companies, AI technology, and the importance of design across a business.

Peter Schroeder:
Peter Schroeder is an accomplished DJ, entrepreneur, and technology pioneer. With over 20 platinum records, 20 years of experience creating cutting-edge technologies for companies such as Facebook, Samsung, and Airbnb, and his latest venture, Telzio, a pre-unicorn unified communications company that he founded.

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After founding several businesses, Peter is now working on the Uber/Shopify for recurring service-based businesses. We discuss the importance of understanding user problems and the benefits of digital transformations in companies and industries. We also discuss the importance of communication in a relationship—from communication within an organization to communication with customers and users.

Peter Wasmer

Peter Wasmer is a long time Naples, Florida-based entrepreneur who helps pragmatic small business owners manage like a pro. He understands both sides of the business coin and uses his deep experience to bring constant innovation to small businesses. His latest project is provalet.io focusing on helping small and medium sized service businesses increase revenue, improve efficiency, and drive down costs while improving customer communication and retention.

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With four decades of experience in UX design, Dorothy Shamonsky, Ph.D has seen the evolution of design from its earliest days. In this episode, Kyle and Dorothy discuss the importance of good UX design, showing the value of UX, and understanding users. We also discuss the current state of UX and the changes to UX and design over the years, including the specialization and siloing of designers. We also discuss the future of technology, including AI and its implications on design. Finally, we explore natural user interfaces (NUIs) 

Dorothy Shamonsky, Ph.D

Dorothy is the UX Strategy Officer at Mass.-based Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) and its design studio Boston UX. Dorothy is focused on designing natural user interfaces (NUIs) to achieve simple-but-compelling user experiences for IoT devices, specializing in robotics, medical and automotive. She’s managed creative teams at MTV, Merrill Lynch and elsewhere; taught design at NYU, Pratt Institute and Brandeis; and earned a doctorate at MIT and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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LinkedIn: Dorothy Shamonsky

Books: Brave NUI World, Superintelligence

Links: BostonUX, ICS

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Gathering customer feedback and creating a product roadmap is one of the most important parts of product management. So why does it always seem like a struggle? In this episode, Kyle and Kareem Mayan of Savio discuss the importance of validating product features against actual data from customers. And the importance of having all of that information in a single place so we can make good decisions.

Kareem Mayan

• Since 2001, Kareem has founded and run Product teams at four software companies (3 exits), and PMed at companies like ESPN.com, MySpace
• He’s built over a dozen products doing everything from customer interviews, wireframing, UX work, prioritizing, roadmapping, leading teams, working with devs, managing stakeholders, and more.
• Currently co-founder of Savio, a TinySeed-backed Product Management Platform for B2B SaaS companies where he’s talked with hundreds of PMs about their process

Links from the Show:

LinkedIn: Kareem Mayan

Twitter: @kareem 

Links: Savio

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In this episode, Anna Peterson, a product coach, joins Kyle to discuss key skills for product managers. From overcoming imposter syndrome to stakeholder management to establishing a confident, executive presence, we explore many of the skills product managers and product leaders need to be successful. 

Anna Peterson (Kotliarevskaia)

Anna is a coach helping product leaders go from inhibited to intuitive.

Prior to becoming a coach, Anna spent 15 years working in tech companies worldwide. During this time, she went from UX design to product management, to leadership. Most recently, Anna was a Director of Product at ServiceNow where she led the company's Enterprise Agile Planning solution from inception to market leadership.

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LinkedIn: Anna’s LinkedIn

Links: tech-happy.com

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