Tomorrow's product Toolkit
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Designer’s Challenge
As product designers, we are all familiar with roadmap planning. Typically, product managers generate a list of items, which cross-functional team members, including engineering, data, and design, review, comment on, or discuss in meetings.
There are inherent limitations to this planning process:
There are inherent limitations to this planning process:
Planning often focuses on predefined solutions, limiting imagination and possibilities. Design is constrained by organizational structures and current technology. We need to investigate problem areas to provide insightful input and develop solutions together.
Planning usually focuses on the next quarter or release, without considering the longer-term future of the product, which impacts today's strategic directions.
The Framework
The framework leveraged speculative design and foresight strategy to enhance the product development process in tech companies, enabling designers to envision and lead towards preferred product futures.
It includes eight essential tools:
It includes eight essential tools:
Beginning with "Plan Your Journey" to identify scope and steps.
Research and creativity are then stretched using tools like "Signal Maps," "Metaphors," and "Futures Wheel."
"Polarity Map," "Tweets from the Future," and "Backcasting" engage cross-functional teams to converge on directions and strategize business plans.
Finally, "Make the Thing" and "Bring Artifacts into the Real World" amplify impact and secure management buy-in.
ConFig23 - Talk
Learn about the framework at Config
Collaboration team at Twitch: Kalyani Tupkary, Karina Kotval, Kevin Duong, Amanda Liu, Jason Lee, Adam Syed