"This is the book to read if you're thinking of a career transition from UX to product." —Ellen Chisa, Founder in Residence, Boldstart VenturesUser experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management—as a peer discipline, a job title, a future career—or simply wondering exactly what it entails. In Product Management for UX People, Christian

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Exactly Does a Product Manager Do?

Chapter 2: Do You Want to Be a Product Manager?

Chapter 3: UX Skills That Carry Over

Chapter 4: Wrangling Engineers

Chapter 5: The Business of Product Is Business

Chapter 6: Product Analytics: Growth, Engagement, Retention

Chapter 7: Testing Hypotheses with Experiments

Chapter 8: Getting the Money

Chapter 9: Healthy Collaborative Tension on the Product UX Spectrum

Chapter 10: Roadmaps and How to Say "No"

Chapter 11: Chief Information Architect

About the Author

Christian Crumlish is a product and UX leadership consultant at Design in Product, where he also hosts a product/UX community. He is currently leading the product management of COVID19.CA.GOV and consulting on govtech product practices with California’s Office of Digital Innovation. He is also a mentor at Code for America and StartX, and a fellow in the Rosenfeld Media Experts network. Christian earned an AB at Princeton in philosophy, where he graduated sine laude.

Formerly, he was VP of Product at 7 Cups, winner of the 2016 Stanford Medicine X Prize for health systems design, and a 2019 World Economic Forum Pioneer. He has also co-hosted the monthly BayCHI program, was senior director of product at CloudOn, was director of messaging products for AOL (AIM), was the last curator of the Yahoo design pattern library, and served two terms as a director of the late lamented Information Architecture Institute.

He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People and The Power of Many, and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces. Christian lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Briggs Nisbet, and an ever-growing collection of ukuleles.