Episode 18: 🪄 How to Develop Product Sense

Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Era and Ajay talk about how to develop 🪄 product sense. If you’ve ever wondered how product managers have that 🕷️ spidey sense for what users need in their products, this is the episode to check out!

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

01:54 What's That Drink?!

02:24 Drinking Game: "Intuition"

02:39 Misconceptions of Product Sense

03:35 What is Product Sense?

04:48 Steve Jobs & Product Sense

06:04 Two Main Areas: Priming Your Heart & Priming Your Mind

06:21 Be Empathetic

12:49 Be Open to New Ideas & Seek Inspiration

17:00 The Value of Experimentation

21:00 How to Prime Your Mind: 3 Hacks

21:17 Process for Deconstructing Products: Teardowns

26:28 The Best Product Teams Do Teardowns

28:48 The First iPhone & Product Sense

30:37 Summary of Product Sense Strategies

32:29 Product Sense Bootcamp: YouTube Key Plays

38:30 Outro

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