[Weekly Retro] Ingredients
#53 - Jun.2024
Happy Friday!
💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off for the weekend:
These are the common ingredients I’ve seen in teams developing great products:
- An effective product strategy that drives the team’s focus;
- A strong engineering culture towards innovation and simplification;
- A good design taste to offer customers the best experience.
✉️ Post from this week
This week I wrote about how to become an effective product leader by learning the basics of design:
Design taste
#107 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. As a product leader today, I think these are essential complementary skills. You can develop a good design taste even if your role is not being a designer. Design is the common language between product, UX, and engineering, and everyone in the team can contribute.

👨🏻💻 Interesting links I found during this week
Design with AI | Xinran Ma | Substack
Practical articles every week to help you design better, faster, and smarter with AI. Click to read Design with AI, by Xinran Ma, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

🖋️ Quote of the week:
“It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.” – Jony Ive
