Design-Driven Growth

Strategy & Case Studies For Product Shapers

By: Molly Norris Walker

Narrated by: Susan Marlow

Here’s the cold, hard truth: Ideas are cheap. Product follow-through is where the money is spent and made. That’s where heroes are forged, and excellent product design sparks what eventually becomes major growth. Today, products need to grow their user bases...from scratch, again and again. This book is a guide to the vital work of shaping a product into its sustaining engine. It’s a design-focused companion to methodologies like product-led growth.

What is design-driven growth?

Design-driven growth is a repeatable process for teams to smash growth targets through design experimentation at scale. This strategy disrupts that separation. It’s not just about user experience, nor business impact, but how to deftly combine both of these into a winning strategy.

Who is this book for?

Design-Driven Design answers the question, “I’ve launched - now what?” It is relevant to anyone working on digital product performance, no matter their job title. This book is for hands-on product shapers, who care about advancing the business through user experience.

This book is for global practitioners outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, from early-stage startups to mature scale-ups across the private, public, and social sectors.

What is the book about?

This one-sitting listen is broken into the following chapters:

• "Defining Growth"
• "Simplifying Value Propositions"
• "Crafting Growth Funnels and Loops"
• "Building Personalization at Scale"
• "Seeking Expansion at B2B Companies"

Each chapter includes real-world case studies that emphasize low-cost and easy starting points to further your growth journey.

Praise:

"Product professionals must go beyond design thinking to add experiment rigor and metrics to not only product design, but to the entire customer journey. Molly lays out simple and concrete steps how to do so." (Brant Cooper, The New York Times best-selling author of The Lean Entrepreneur)

“Molly's book is concise, actionable, and relatable, with case studies illustrating each point.” (Tela Andrews, CEO, 1Brand)

©2018 Molly Norris (P)2018 Molly Norris

Interesting but nothing new

For people who work in the field, many of the mentioned topics are not new.
The book is about data driven ux and ux driven data. The author sums up nicely the different steps/methods to grow, it is a nice reminder.

Where Product and UX in intercect

This is a great little book with a lot of ideas of how to use UX and product management strategies specifically for growth. While not strictly a book about UX, it does speak to where the two disciplines come together, and I think we'll be useful for anyone working on a software team.

I love that it's short and succinct and full of actionable insights. Totally worth the money and time.

Too expensive for the length of the audio

My only complain is that.
I forgot to check the length and was expecting a longer audiobook.
:/

Great intro on growth design

As someone who's learning growth design, I really liked the way this book provided a broad overview with some solid frameworks / guides for getting started. Probably the most helpful thing that I've seen some other reading materials miss out on is actual examples with narratives and resulting data. It's hard to know if this book is missing anything important, but as a newcomer it did feel like a good starting point.

Great Audio Book

very informative but just short but provides good information to go back and listen again.