Questioning the "why"
summary
The concrete claim: questioning goals matters more than mastering the latest toolset. Wireframes, whiteboard sketches and quick prototypes serve as wireframes as exploration to find the product’s purpose before code. Practical tools named: Photoshop/Illustrator, HTML/CSS, jQuery; concrete tradeoffs shown with icons-versus-labels decisions and a usable line‑height heuristic line-height from a book. Outcome: early questioning reduces expensive rework in development and forces teams to ask why not how.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:18How Does One Make a Living Doing Something That You Love
- 12:32What Does a Product Manager Do
- 20:30How Can You Turn this Idea into a Product
- 27:50The Innovators Dilemma
- 29:49Icons with Labels
- 31:40Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road
- 38:16Creativity Is the Defeat of Habit by Originality
- 38:52Line Height
- 39:36Responsive Typography
- 41:35Skeuomorphism
- 44:30Wireframes
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