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Great Product Teams Practice Learn ➔ Make ➔ Test

Lizz D — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:17:35 +0000

Applying the “learn ➔ make ➔ test” process across every stage of product development can help product managers to lead teams effectively and create truly successful products. Product managers often carry the responsibility to define their product team’s activities across the entire development lifecycle. Efficiency is critical given the speed at which technology advances every […]

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Design Thinking for Product Management

Lizz D — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 08:43:57 +0000

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 validation to lead into further design refinement and then development and delivery of quality solutions.“Design thinking” is generally sweeping the business world, as the powerfully iterative and effective methods of design are made sensible for leaders of product development.

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Strategy for Medical System Design

Lizz D — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:28:43 +0000

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 is monitored and subject to review by regulatory bodies such as the FDA (United States) and IEC (Europe). Building UX design methods into your processes is an optimal way to […]

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Healthy Design for People

Lizz D — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:51:17 +0000

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

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Humanize All the Things

Lizz D — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 23:50:41 +0000

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

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Scenarios for Design Workshop

Lizz D — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:37:33 +0000

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 we cannot design for interactive, complex products and services without using a scenario at some juncture. This powerful methodology is based on the goal-directed design process that originated at Cooper, […]

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Vrooming about Design

Lizz D — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:24:30 +0000

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, We Can Do Better, and they ended up vrooming about town on their machines.

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Remote Collaboration Rules

Lizz D — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 22:08:24 +0000

Remote team collaboration has become a common feature of modern software design & development workplaces — especially now, post-pandemic — where “remote team” is defined as persons working together who are not physically co-located in a traditional, shared office space. Devise Consulting has worked very successfully with various forms of remote team configurations for well […]

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Reflections on a Rock Health Summit

Lizz D — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:34:20 +0000

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 care” system that devotes relatively little time to human-centered discourse. We have no unified or effective approach to delivering preventive care, and are neither addressing the scale of such needs nor are we typically tailoring approaches to each individual.

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For The Betterment of All

Lizz D — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:17:33 +0000

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

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