Posts by Lizz D

Great Product Teams Practice Learn ➔ Make ➔ Test

Applying the “learn ➔ make ➔ test” process across every stage of product development can help product managers to lead teams effectively and create truly[…]

Design Thinking for Product Management

I brought in a design thinking-based approach, aka the “double diamond” model, to rationalize business strategies against user needs, allowing early market investigation and concept[…]

Scientist with Paper Airplane in the lab

Strategy for Medical System Design

Strategy could be defined as knowing how to approach problems. In the highly-critical domain of medical devices and digital health, the product development process itself[…]

Healthy Design for People

Lizz Bacon and Lorraine Chapman presented this material to a standing-room-only crowd at Healthcare Refactored.

Humanize All the Things

Scenarios are a fundamental interaction design practice. From definition to delivery, this essential tool helps ensure that we design delightful — and successful — products[…]

Scenarios for Design Workshop

Scenarios are the most essential and powerful tool for user experience design. Practitioners may call them use cases or storyboards, but the fact remains that[…]

Vrooming about Design

Have you ever gone on a motorcycle ride while being interviewed? The ever-innovative Matt Oliphant invited Lizz to speak on an episode of his show,[…]

Remote Collaboration Rules

Remote team collaboration has become a common feature of modern software design & development workplaces — especially now, post-pandemic —  where “remote team” is defined[…]

Reflections on a Rock Health Summit

I’m still mentally dwelling on the vast scope of the underlying problems with our “healthcare” system in the United States. It’s actually a broken “sick[…]

Liz speaking at CHIFOO

For The Betterment of All

The design of novel technologies needs to help improve the human condition. Lizz Bacon presented thoughts on this theme at the CHIFOO Speaker Series.