Lessons from going 0-to-1 and beyond

A story about the benefits of design thinking and practical examples of how design thinking can be used to create MVPs in startup environments.

Explore the pitfalls of traditional executive-led product development versus a team-led approach with lessons from real-world experiences.

Suppressing our emotions causes us to become inadvertent a-holes at work because they leak and leads us to act in ways that create toxic workplaces.

Common situations at startups and established companies that frustrate designers and make them seem hard to work with to engineers and product managers.

Early-stage startup teams consisting of only founders and engineers without a researcher or designer make these basic mistakes in approaching user research.

Partnering with founders and product leaders in startup ventures to coach their teams in new product development, team communication and product design, unleashing their potential to power company growth.