It's been quiet here while I was figuring out what to do with this platform. Due to several cases at the creator of this platform I did not feel comfortable using it for these posts. I then started to think that in the long run I need to own my content and follower base. From now on I will only be publishing on www.kennethlarsen.org. I...

Understanding and interviewing your users is a crucial part of delivering the right things. While there are many ways of doing this, there's a particular theory that I was encouraged to follow by my design professor that is still stuck with me: Contextual inquiry. It is built on the idea that systems design should be grounded in future...

When I was hiring engineers for my fictional mansplaining-in-audio-only-service, Suphouse, I ran into a few issues. First, I was asked why we picked React as our frontend tool. Well, because Facebook created it and they have a lot of success with it. Then I was asked why design sprints are so essential to us. Well, Google has pioneered...

When building my fictional video streaming service Nutfix, I ran into some issues with the engineering department. The product department wants to introduce a new type of movie where the user's interactions determine what happens next. The engineering department thinks this is almost impossible to do in reasonable time due to technical...

When I look at the top list of paid apps in the App Store, there is one type of app that is always at the top: Pregnancy apps. There are apps for soon-to-be-mothers and soon-to-be-fathers to track the pregnancy, learn about the different phases they need to go through and even get tips for when the baby has been born. The app's success...

While building my fictional food delivery service Grieferando I ran into several issues with the people who were delivering the food. It turns out that not giving them any rights or proper pay has caused some issues. Besides the extremely low compensation I give them they also get tips from our fictional, hungry customers. The problem ...

When building fictional products like my meditation app Headface, I want to build the best possible user experience. The other day, a proposal came from our designers to redo our form inputs in the signup flow. The request was to save some space by moving the input labels inside the input. Since we of course use Scrum™©℗ it was estimat...

Let's imagine that I've built a popular banking app. Let's call it M26. Let's imagine that people really loved the simplicity of my banking app. The users can signup, get a credit card by mail, and easily transfer money. This is the core of M26. We call this flow the fall-in-love-journey as this journey allows the users to very quickly...

It turns out that Rome wasn't built in a sprint. I think this resonates with a lot of people who do product development because often the expectation is to build Rome in a sprint. Why is this happening? 1. The Scrum guide says so Chances are that you are following a 2-week sprint cycle. Why is that? Do two weeks match the time it usual...