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Vision vs Iteration

Brendan Kearns at UX Brighton 2019

About this talk

Teams iterating without a vision are working blindfolded. The constant demand for new features and growth often force product teams into endless cycles of iteration. At best, they’re missing out on new opportunities. At worst, they’re ignoring threats that could upend their business.

The struggle to plan beyond the short-term mean it’s easy to ignore the future bets you need to make to survive.

In this talk, Brendan will share models and ways of working from that designers and product owners can use to focus on both the short and long term.

Some of the topics covered in this talk are:

  • the value of a vision,
  • how to measure big bets through experimentation, and
  • validation and turning a vision into a roadmap.

About Brendan

Brendan is the founder of Studio Rival – a digital product agency in London. Rival partners with leading startups, tech companies, and brands to design and innovate digital products. As a former designer at companies like Google, Twitter, and InVision, he has the inside take on some of the biggest and most complex products in tech.

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Projects and resources

  • Design sprint00:03:35Brendan Kearns refers to the design sprint as one of the fast product-work models used by teams.
  • Google Maps00:07:00Brendan Kearns uses his former work on Google Maps as an example of a critical user journey.