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Eleganthack
Designing Business, and the Business of Design
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- 2,319 from 14 Apr 2000 to 9 Aug 2026
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August 2026
July 2026
April 2026
March 2026
- Scale Is a Tactic, Not a Virtue
- Speed Is a Tactic, Not a Virtue
- Everyone on Your Team Is Right (And That’s the Problem)
- My Information Diet (And What You Should Actually Read)
January 2026
- Vibe-Coding Is Not Need-Finding
- In Praise of Guessing
- I’ll Know It When I Build It
- AI’s Missing Ingredient
- The Formula That Changed How I Think About Design
- The Three Most Powerful Words in User Research
- Your Resolution Isn’t the Problem. Your Measurement Is.
December 2025
November 2025
- UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It)
- The Dancing Bear Problem
- KPIs Are Your Dashboard. OKRs Are Your GPS to Somewhere New.
- The Premortem: Your Product’s Autopsy Before Launch
October 2025
August 2025
- Why Your Brain Matters More Than Your Grade
- Why I’m Thrilled My Kid is Going to Sarah Lawrence (And You Should Want a Liberal Arts Degree Too)
- Building Product Sense: Why Your Gut Needs an Education
July 2025
- OKR Dash
- Free Worksheet for Missions
- Sketching With AI: Why Physical Thinking Still Matters in the Age of Generated Everything
June 2025
- Student-Created Rubrics: Preparing Designers for Real-World Quality Decisions
- The Counterintuitive Hiring Strategy for the AI Era: Getting Maximum ROI from Minimal Headcount
- How to Hire a Real UX/Product Designer
- Prototypes, Turf Wars, and Vibe Coding: Who Does What Now?
- The Recovery OKR: Goals for Healing After Burnout
May 2025
- Developing Product Sense: How to See the Forest and the Trees
- What I’ve Learned from 15 Years of Doing OKRs
- We Did This to Ourselves
- Metrics Are Easy—Impact Is Hard
- Default Mode Is a Decision—Just Not Yours
April 2025
March 2025
- AI Won’t Take Your Job—But Someone Who Uses It Better Than You Will
- When (and When Not) to Use AI in Digital Product Development
- Why Qualitative Data Belongs in Your Key Results
February 2025
January 2025
December 2024
November 2024
- Continuous Reflection: Driving Success Across the Product Lifecycle
- Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening
- Decoupling OKRs: It’s Time to Let Go
- Agile, Lean Startup, and OKRs: Cinderella’s Glass Slipper
- The Internal “How”: Building Strategic Capabilities In-House and Leveraging Process Power
- The “How” Question: Building Competitive Advantage with Seven Powers
- The “What” Question: Defining the Value You Give and Receive
- Book Review: No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
- The “Where” Question: Mapping Out Your Path to Growth and Workplace Strategy
- The “Who” Question: Identifying Key Players Inside and Out
- The Power of “Why”: Defining Your Mission for Clarity and Purpose
- Tiny Strategy: Crafting a Clear, Flexible Plan with Six Questions
- Unlocking Competitive Advantage with “7 Powers”
- Thinking in Metrics
- Building a Strategy: Answering the Five Essential Questions
- The Tale of the Two Bakeries: A Business Fable
October 2024
- The Importance of Giving Feedback Early: Don’t Let Resentment Fester
- Getting Started with Outcome Thinking
- Switcheroo for Practicing Difficult Conversations
- What Does Good Look Like?
- Why We Struggle to Get Things Done: Common Pitfalls
- Building a Product Management Class
September 2024
- Five Effective Ways to Quiet a Room After a Workshop Exercise
- The Easiest Way to Start Working with OKRs
August 2024
May 2024
- The Product Journey and the Product Portfolio
- Fast Ways to Estimate Capacity
- Understanding Organizational Capacity: Why It Matters in OKR Practice
- Building an Instinct for Metrics
- Why We Struggle to Prioritize
- King of the Mountain, er, Middle
- Setting Personal OKRs
- Pre-Work for Setting OKRs
- Using Ikigai with Personal OKRs
- Harnessing Confidence Ratings for Effective OKRs
- Diagrams for Thinking Through a Digital Products’ Architecture
- Using Temporal Landmarks for Effective OKRs Adoption
April 2024
- Cialdini’s Influence: The Secret to Achieving OKRs
- The effect of goal setting on group performance: A meta-analysis
February 2024
- Navigating Prioritization: Four Approaches
- Beyond Indecision: The Psychological Forces Shaping Our Choices
- Crafting Personal OKRs for Real Change
- Closing Open Loops for Better Personal OKRs
January 2024
November 2023
August 2023
September 2022
February 2022
December 2021
July 2020
June 2020
September 2019
October 2018
September 2018
June 2018
- Using OKRs to Increase Organizational Learning
- Working the Weekly 1:1
- The Intuitive and the Unlearnable
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
January 2018
November 2017
- Still Here
- The Context Canvas
- Book of the Week: Peak
- Three Writing Frameworks to Get You Through Nanowrimo
September 2017
August 2017
- How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking
- Book of the Week: Thanks for the Feedback
- Draw Me a Picture!
- The Creative Founder
- Book of the Week: The Culture Map
- Foundations of Interaction Design
- Beyond OKRs: The Formula for High Performing Teams
June 2017
May 2017
- Raising Money to Provide a Meaningful Internship for a Student
- Supercharge Your Team with Effective Feedback
- Designing High Performing Teams
- Design the Team You Need to Succeed
- A Visual Vocabulary for Concept Models
- MicroStories for Pitching
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
- Story Secrets for Understanding and Communicating
- Alphabets and Logographs
- One Big Idea
- Block Your Talk
- Presenting is Performance
December 2016
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