Traces I’ve left online.
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© Tobias Freudenreich
“Produktmenschen” podcast
In 2021, my friend and mentor Tobias Freudenreich interviewed me (in German) for his podcast series “Produktmenschen”, introducing the people behind their products and their stories. Talking Product, Research, and “Back to the Future”.
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Why User Researchers make the best Product Managers
5 skills you use daily as a researcher that will prove invaluable in a product management role. You cannot pick these up by reading a book. You can, however, make a conscious effort to practise and improve them.

Adventures in Centralized Prototyping
XING being a social network where every user’s experience highly depends on their individual data, clickdummies alone just weren’t enough. We needed live-data prototypes to get the necessary answers, so we fully committed to user-centric development and put an engineering team on the topic.

How Covid-19 taught us Product Management 101
It’s been almost two years – two friggin’ years! – since many of us were sent to work from home. Since we stopped hanging out with friends. Since things stopped being fun. And what do we have to show for it, aside from a large collection of banana bread recipes and some brand-new social anxieties?
Well, we all got a crash course in Product Management.
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© Mind the Product
Mind the Product went behind the scenes of its biggest conference in London to portrait some of the “serial” volunteers – I was one of them.
“Meet the Mind the Product Volunteers”