The lines between product manager, designer, and engineer are blurring.
You can’t obsessively adhere to the double diamond process (four steps, the first two focusing on the problem, the second two focusing on the solution)
At one point, she says to throw away what you know.
Can you throw away something you don’t have?
No! You have to understand something first, then trust that it is imbued in your work without focusing on it.
Acting teacher says don’t do yesterday’s rehearsal!
Golf pro says you only have room for one swing thought!
Both are variations on a theme.
What you can do in the real world
You can’t do every technique you learn in every job.
You have to develop an intuition for what you need in a particular job.
Pick your battles based on what matters and what you can win.
You learn techniques in order and over the course of a project, but you don’t get to use them that way.
You need to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the techniques to know which fits where.
And, you need to learn about the perspectives of product managers and engineers.
We’ll talk a bit about engineers in this class and that means talking about code.