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Essays, rants, case studies and media clips

Something is happening around here…

October 8, 2024

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The i in Team

June 1, 2024

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A talk about the prerequisites of teamwork and why personal development is crucial.

Developer Experience at King

October 17, 2023

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A case study and excerpt from the Holistic Product Discovery book on how to use the guiding angle of the framework

What I do #5 – Enabling Agility

September 13, 2023

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The fifth post in a series explaining what I am up to in my work life.

What I do #4 – Developmental Coaching

September 7, 2023

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The fourth post in a series explaining what I am up to in my work life.

What I do #3 – Developing Competencies

September 6, 2023

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The third post in a series explaining what I am up to in my work life.

What I do #2 – Collaboration Workshops

September 5, 2023

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The second post in a series explaining what I am up to in my work life.

What I do #1 – Transformational Coaching

September 1, 2023

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The first post in a series explaining what I am up to in my work life.

Agila HR podden [Swedish]

June 13, 2023

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An interview in Swedish with Marcus and I about building the right product.

Product with Panash – podcast

June 5, 2023

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Marcus and I were interviewed by Axel Sooriah from Product with Panash about our take on the Product space today.

Holistic Product Discovery Framework

April 15, 2023

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A primer to the Holistic Product Discovery Framework and as a glimpse into the book, with slides.

Interview with French Le Ticket

March 8, 2023

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An interview with Le Ticket when we released our book... about the book.

Holistic Product Discovery book

November 9, 2022

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So, we wrote a book. The book features real-life stories from product development, traps and fallacies that you should avoid, mental models and frameworks to build the right product. Are you intrigued? Click click click...

Splendid Product Discovery Resources

November 2, 2021

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A collection of excellently useful Product Discovery things

Product Discovery – a rant

December 9, 2020

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A rant about the lack of Product Discovery and what to do about it

Building the right thing

May 8, 2020

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Product Discovery meetup with friends

Coaching 101

November 23, 2019

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In which I try to explain the basics of personal coaching as I see it.

Martin reder ut Lean UX [Swedish]

June 13, 2019

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En poddintervju om Lean UX

Visual showing that the intersection between user value, business value and practical feasibility gives the right outcome

Balanced team

November 22, 2018

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What is a good cross-functional team composition?

UX open

August 19, 2018

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An unconference with the motto Sharing is caring

Agile UX [Swedish]

June 5, 2018

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Ett blixttal om sätt att samarbeta på inom UX och Discovery, från Design sprint till Mob

Lean Startup [Swedish]

May 29, 2018

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En poddintervju om Lean Startup

The MVP is Dead (gravestone with MVP on it), long live the RAT (Remy from Ratatouille)

Martin’s RAT guide

May 29, 2017

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The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. For healthy experimentation!

The Agile manifesto through other perspectives

March 6, 2017

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Maybe Frédéric Laloux can help us make sense of Agile

Risk/value diagram. High risk/value - "Lean UX this". Low risk/high value - "UX" this. High risk/low value - Don't do this. Low risk/low value - why?!

Lean UX explained

February 12, 2017

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It's all about learning. Period.

Discovery & Delivery

December 14, 2016

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Are they dichotomies? Can they work well together?

Visual of impact map going from Why (goal) to Who (actors) to How (impacts) to What (actions)

Impact mapping

December 13, 2016

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How to strategically connect a business outcome and user needs to your actions

Measuring User Experience

October 31, 2016

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Can you really measure something that fluffy? Yes, you can!

Measuring User Experience (video) [Swedish]

October 17, 2016

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Kan man verkligen mäta fluff? Ja, det kan man!

Double Diamond with steps - Explore, Structure, Innovate, Validate

Product Discovery

July 3, 2016

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Would you like to be able to innovate and build the right thing?

Tänk på användarupplevelsen – podcast [Swedish]

January 15, 2016

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En poddintervju om UX och lite agilt

Design Studio

January 2, 2016

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A good way to get shared understanding as outcome and great design ideas as output

10 principles for Successful Lean Product Teams

December 19, 2015

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Lean UX before Lean UX

UX wouldn’t be anything…

December 19, 2015

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... if it wasn't for all the great women.

Core Protocols

November 10, 2015

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Here's a way to quickly implement a great team culture.

User Research Demystified

October 30, 2015

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You need to speak with your users to find out what they need. This is how you do it.

UX vs Lean UX [Swedish]

September 13, 2015

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An explanation of the principal difference between UX and LeanUX.

The Marshall Model in a Nutshell

August 29, 2015

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Bob Marshall has an interesting model for organisational maturity. Useful for transformation and to explain Waterfall vs. Agile

UX design case: Visualisation

April 15, 2015

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Ways to visualise problem discovery work to get attention.

UX design case: Onboarding

October 15, 2013

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The enlightenment of confused users

UX design case: Efficiency

June 20, 2013

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Making sure the users can spend their valuable time elsewhere

User Stories reimagined

January 21, 2013

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How you can write user stories that will provoke, guarantee a conversation and prepare for collaboration

UX Podcast

June 5, 2012

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In June 2012 I was interviewed in UX Podcast by Per Axbom and James Royal-Lawson

Processes and practices are nothing without principles

April 22, 2012

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Why inspect and adapt is the most important lesson from Agile

Compass with Needle Pointing to the word Principles

Design principles

January 24, 2012

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What is the least you could actually do when you realise you need to 'UX' something? Follow design principles.

To shun silos

January 22, 2012

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Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate!

Lean UX and Agile UX are somewhat overlapping areas

Agile UX vs. Lean UX

January 6, 2012

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My definition of two concepts so often conflated.

The value in a cupcake

January 5, 2012

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The concept of the Minimum Viable Product.

Venn diagram showing Desirable, Feasible and Valuable circles overlapping

UX in the balanced team

December 8, 2010

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How to work cross-functional as a UX person

UX design case: Adjusting to Users

November 28, 2010

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Creating a workflow for pensioners who apply for housing supplements while winning their hearts

UX design case: Less is more

June 30, 2010

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Redesign of a service for finding real estate brokers.

User-Centred Design ISO 13407 circle - Context - Requirements - Solutions - Validation

User-centred design case

December 30, 2009

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Or redesigning Twitter to create a modern way for seniors to keep up with their grandchildren

Showing ux activities integrated in a development sprint

Agile UX Design

July 29, 2009

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How to do UX and Scrum with impact mapping and sprints

Are your users precocious?

November 25, 2008

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Usability testing with children

UX design case: Better status

August 30, 2008

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Structuring information for the win.

Selecting Users

January 25, 2008

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To be able to do user-centered design, you would need to be in tight contact with users. You need a way to find them, right?

Usability as a separate phase from agile method or integrated in agile usability development

Agile and Usability in tandem

November 10, 2007

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The foundation of Agile UX, from 2007