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11. Deconstructing System Design

Aswin Pranam
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Santa Clara, California, USA
 
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
—Steve Jobs
First, a product manager is a strategist. Aside from the day-to-day decisions being made that influence the current portfolio of products, your responsibility and expectation of forecasting into the future makes you a “technology prophet”. Often, you’ll be faced with problems that seem too big to solve. Once you get past the initial stage of panic, you’ll refocus and think “there’s no way this can be broken down to manageable chunks.” Finally, as you exit the final phase ...

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