David Ingledow

Product Director @SoPost

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@felixhhaas @Scobleizer Directory

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@SimonOKing @bbcweather @SpaceX Up in Newcastle!

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@AdrianDittmann @Scobleizer What about the rumours of an @OpenAI device being designed with Jony Ive? Would still be behind in the chip space surely.

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@awilkinson @joinbento https://t.co/DAoIsXpVjX

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

There is a popular Apple Pie Position, which goes:
“If you don’t measure it, you cannot improve it”

This belief is often harmful on early-stage teams.

This is more accurate:
“If you don’t measure it, you cannot prove to some people that you improved it”

Impact vs. Optics

Implications:

1) You need leaders who have good taste. Without good taste, everything becomes an exercise to “prove it conclusively”, which slows teams down

2) As an org grows, it becomes increasingly hard to hire / retain enough people with good taste. Plus, because optics are now more important in such orgs, people end up having to do all sorts of useless work to prove the unprovable

3) Such orgs can maintain (and hopefully grow) existing mature products (because mature products lend themselves well to management by extensive measurement). But these orgs struggle to produce new products and make them successful. These orgs tend to be uninspiring and, for some people, boring

4) When you go from such an org to a smaller team or company, you must adjust your approach. If you yourself don’t have good taste, you must first build awareness of that and hire / listen to people who do have good taste

5) In all cases, understand that there is a difference between *evaluating* how something is going and *measuring* how it is going. In some cases, you can simply evaluate without performing crazy contortions to measure. Of course, such evaluation requires good taste and judgment

6) If you find yourself feeling upset by any of these words, consider perhaps that you might have tied too much of your identity to a certain way of operating and want to remain convinced that yours is the only right way

7) If, after considering this, you still don’t feel any differently, that’s okay. Not everything will resonate with everyone at all times. Maybe come back to this idea in a few years and see how it feels then

P.S.
Some people proudly repeat the “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” quote, not realizing that they are actually mis-quoting Deming, who actually said the exact opposite:

“It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.”

🙂

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

The Art of Strategy: Wardley Mapping Examples by @erik_schon https://t.co/pnWGfrVfyd

[Dan Hollick @DanHollick]

WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm).

It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around.

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[SoPost @sopost]

Day one of #SoPostWeek21 was a fantastic success! Incredible talks, prizes & dino jigsaw based icebreakers!

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@maxholford @instagram @Medium @tumblr Hear, hear on bringing back the good ol’ days of @tumblr!

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@maxholford @instagram @Medium @tumblr @instagram Guides are an underused feature imo that I’ve never really seen take off. Maybe someone just hasn’t cracked how to use them, or maybe they just haven’t had the discoverability? https://t.co/vZqh8CiFIR

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@WKLondon @WiedenKennedy https://t.co/5Hd8kSblE5

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@soffes 🥃 ❤️ 🖥

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

I had such a vivid dream/nightmare (delete as appropriate) about Dot Cotton and Ian Beale last night that I had a nose bleed.

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@soffes I found that booking in a load of gigs in different cities helped me plan where to go and when. Songkick was the perfect tool for that, but that may be tricky with the Pandemic.

[Linda Dong 🍉 @lindadong]

💗 So glad to share that there are now inclusive design principles in Human Interface Guidelines. #WWDC21 https://t.co/qckbX71QQD

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@InstatusHQ Any chance you're working on an Intercom integration? Or, you got any tips on how to integrate with similar functionality to @intercom ?

[David Ingledow @dingledow]

@emilyvc_ @sketch Congrats! What swag did you get in your welcome pack?

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about

Very visual story thread👇🏾

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

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