Product Management
What is a product manager anyway?
I recently gave a talk at Front-end London to try to answer the question: “What the hell is a Product Manager anyway?”. The short answer is that we care a...
Health
More mHealth apps means more healthy – right?
Why mobile health apps alone aren’t the answer to the public health crisis – and what we can do about it.
Technology
Irrational Realism: on QA versus testing
How we think about those processes at Made by Many
Business Strategy
Open access! A new digital direction for the V&A
A dynamic new digital strategy for the V&A Museum yields its first fruits today with the release of version 1.0 of a redesigned and rebuilt web platfo...
Travel
The way that we book travel is broken
Right now, airlines, rail and other transport providers have an enormous opportunity to embark on more meaningful relationships with their customers throu...
Process
Billion dollar interviews
The world’s largest retailer discovered one quick to lose $1 billion in revenue, simply ask consumers what they want and then give it to them. As the New ...
Business Strategy
Asking the big questions about innovation labs
Innovation Labs are a hot topic in business at the moment — but what’s the best way to launch and run one? What are the biggest challenges to success, the...
Design
Design Research, Justworks and that song stuck in your head
“It’s like having a song you don’t know the name of stuck in your head, you know how it goes but how do you find out what it’s called?”
Business Strategy
Something magical just happened at Made by Many
Yesterday we welcomed the on-and offline magic school Abracademy into our studio for the next few months as a ‘start-up in residence’. What the hell are w...
Business Strategy
On Designing For Complexity, Emergence, Collaboration, Adaptivity and Joy
A conversation between Tim Malbon of Made by Many, Oliver Marlow of architectural practice Studio Tilt, and Jon Marshall of industrial designers Map Proje...
Business Strategy
The Problem with Design Thinking
It may have a great name, but Design Thinking no longer packs a punch big enough to drive universe-denting, full-stack innovation. Here’s why we need ‘Ful...
IoT
A Visitor From Shenzhen
Last week here in the Made by Many offices, we received a special guest all the way from the Shenzhen region of China: Mr Victor Chen.Victor and his compa...
Design
Asking the question: should designers code?
If you asked me “Should designers code?”, I wouldn’t be able to answer you. The question serves as a popular op-ed headline, but drops context in favor fo...
Process
Experiments in remote user testing
Customers are at the heart of everything we make at Made by Many. We try to ensure we’re always talking to them, showing them our work in progress, and ge...
Process
A faster way to paper prototype
I recently created a Keynote template to help with paper prototyping. It has seemed a few others in the Made by Many design team have found it useful so I...
Business Strategy
To Save Twitter, Let It Die Quickly
I felt a momentary pang of sadness when I read the New Yorker piece at the weekend about the impending demise of Twitter in an article titled ‘The End of ...
