IA experience is wonderful preparation for product management, but the role of a product manager involves mastering additional skills related to software development, engineering, technical architecture, finding product-market fit, going to market, funnel optimization, revenue modeling, experimenting with hypotheses, managing products through lifecycles, sunsetting features, saying no to stakeholders, getting teams into alignment, and more. In this workshop, Christian will explain how IA skills provide a great foundation for product…

SOLD OUT This highly interactive workshop invites participants to collaborate in building upon the IA-for-AI framework that was first presented at IAC 2021. We will work through what it means to understand, translate, and describe the types of situations where human-machine interaction occurs, and the way the relationship between the human and machine changes in real-time. Participants will identify methodological approaches and dynamic documentation structures that support teams (including UX…

Information is essential to your work. And you are overwhelmed by it. Research findings, design inspiration, project details, insightful essays, useful webinars, and so much more. All this information should make you smarter, generate insights, and amplify your creative output. And yet the result is a digital tarpit where information goes to die.  There is an alternative: building a “second brain.” The strategy is to replace the tarpit with a…

This workshop will be using Zoom. Access will also be available by visiting the Chicago workshop hour during workshop hours. What happens when a senior designer is ready to move up to the next level? What are the skills needed to become a lead designer, team leader or manager? How do they differ to being a designer on the tools? About 5-7 years into…