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UXLx TalksPlayful Design with Christian CrumlishThese days everybody talks about game mechanics, badges, points, and leaderboards, but less attention is paid to the role of play in digital experiences. After childhood, play rarely "just happens," but you can design for it.
Taking ideas from game design, musical instrument design, and play-acting techniques including improv and bodystorming, Christian will address the role of play in digital experiences and how our designs can foster and encourage play rather than squeeze all the joy out of life one pixel at a time.
In game design, you create an arena for play. You establish b...2024-12-1138 min
UXLx TalksWhat Product? or... Manage What, Exactly? with Christian CrumlishAs the second year of the pandemic began, Christian Crumlish started working with the Office of Innovation in the State of California's Government Operations agency as a product manager on the state's Covid response website (COVID19.CA.GOV). Today, more than one year later, Christian is now lead PM for the state's Covid site, along with Cannabis.ca.gov, digital.ca.gov, and upcoming projects.Meanwhile, he is still trying to figure out how "product mindset" maps to public-sector work, or even whether it should at all. His goal is to start a larger conversation here about how...2024-12-0928 min
Experience DesignedEp19. Product Management for UX People with Christian CrumlishChristian Crumlish is a UXer turned product management leader. He's also an author of the Product Management for UX People book and a host of Design in Product community and conferences on the same topic.
In this conversation, we delve into the turf wars between UX and PMs, the unique challenges from both sides, potential career transition strategies and tactics for those keen to take their UCD skills to more business-oriented realms and much more.
Don't forget to share this episode with your friends and colleagues—it's a conversation worth spreading!2024-06-251h 08
Singular XQEpisode 2.15: Christian Crumlish and the GovTech Long GameWhat a great conversation we had with Christian Crumlish, who currently serves as the Product Lead for the Office of Data and Innovation in the State of California, under Governor Gavin Newsom. Christian sat down with us to discuss his sometimes unexpected, always fascinating career evolutions. He shared a wealth of keen insights from his journey, beginning in tech publishing back, as he put it, “when the internet became a thing,” and following the many pivots that eventually led him to his innovative work in Gov Tech. In fact, our conversation was so fantastic that it covers TWO episodes—and tr...2023-04-2725 min
DesignTeamDo UX people need to know more about product management? With Christian Crumlish | Good Morning UXAs designers, sometimes we want to swap from one role to another. User Experience is arguably the best foundation for becoming a Product Manager, but it will only get you part of the way there.
“More and more, designers are grappling with product management—as a peer discipline, as the job title of a boss or teammate, and as a future career destination.”
User experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management or simply wondering exactly what it entails.
This show will pass through some questions like:
is natural the transi...2022-12-301h 00
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCASTLong Strange Tech, part 2The Deadcast concludes its dive into the Grateful Dead’s entanglement with technology, exploring Jerry Garcia’s digital graphics obsession, how Dead Head online communities helped shape the emergent internet, lyricist John Perry Barlow’s manifestoes, & more. Guests: Paul Martin, Mary Eisenhart, David Gans, Steve Silberman, Bob Bralove, Dan English, Doug Oade, Christian Crumlish, Charlie Miller, John Markoff, Erik Davis, Michael CaloreSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2022-11-171h 29
Believe you can because you can!340. Product Management & User Experience with Christian CrumlishProduct management is the process of managing a product’s lifecycle. It includes specifying the product’s features and functions, estimating the project’s cost and schedule, managing development and marketing. Product management is an essential function in any company that develops products. It is a cross-functional role that has to be carried out with many skill sets.…
2022-11-0849 min
The Product ExperienceLet's talk about product roadmaps - The Product ExperienceLily and Randy in this special episode, take a trip down memory lane to have a chat about the best Roadmap insights they've heard from a range of product episodes on the podcast over the past year. Tune in to listen to actionable insights from Philips Nwachukwu, Janice Fraser, Maahir Shah, and more! Featured Links: Follow Lily on LinkedIn and Twitter | Follow Randy on LinkedIn and Twitter | Roadmaps features at Mind The Product | Guests included in this episode: Maggie Crowley, Philips Nwachukwu, Alexander Hipp, Kausambi Manjita, Storm Fagan, Roisi Proven, Ha Phan, Anthony Marter, Christian C...2022-11-0235 min