Building Products Using Design Thinking

I was interviewed as part of the Authority Summit by Tim Morkes. In this interview, I shared with him on how Design thinking can be used to build new products or services that fall in the intersection of Desirability, Viability and Feasibility. Hope you will take the 30 odd minutes and watch the video below here. Authority Super Summit – Mukesh Gupta – Final from Tom Morkes on Vimeo. I was also invited to give a talk on “Practical Design Thinking for Product Managers” by the Institute of Product Leadership at one of their events. The recording of the same is […]

PBTO33: Creating Award Winning Products with Yogita Agarwal

Who is on the show today: In this episode, we host Yogita Agarwal. She runs a product design studio in Mumbai called Ware Innovations.  Why is she on the show: In her short career so far, she has already won multiple awards for multiple products. She has won The Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design 2015 and The James Dyson Foundation Fund at Parsons 2015 for her product Jhoule. She was also the team that won the Wearables for Good Challenge by UNICEF, Arm Technology and frog design, for her product – Soapen. What do we Talk on the show: In this freewheeling conversation, we […]

How to Build an Insanely Successful Product or Service

I was at a tech startup event last week and as is at all these events, there was a discussion about how do you build new products or services that have a good chance at success. I have learnt from my personal experience and from observing a lot of successful and not so successful startups that every entrepreneur trying to create a new product or service could follow the following process to have a good chance at building a successful product or service: Step1: Know thy user My personal experience in having facilitated numerous innovation workshops and from observing some highly […]