To Be A Product Manager | Day 4

02-02

This journal helps me improve 1% every day…

Welcome to Day 4 of

To Be A Product Manager

If you read my last post, you probably know that I choose to go back home early and try to make good use of the time yesterday. So at around 7:40PM, I arrived at my apartment and started doing my evening routine, in order to catch up what I was supposed to do in the morning.

25-min HIIT, 1 hour reading and 30-min call with a product designer Max in Shanghai. I forget what I was searching couple days ago, but I just randomly got in Max』s personal website, he writes blog, post video and some design work on dribbble and Behance. I knew right away I should shoot him an email for connection. He』s very friendly and also open to meet new friends, so we schedule a call last night.

Just 3 years age gap won』t separate us that much, we talked a lot about our feelings about work and career, and how do we see ourself as successful people, what is the definition about success. For me, this process helps me relax from the stressful day, and make more interesting friends on the daily basis.

And I also managed to go to bed before 11PM, it』s the most productive night during the past 2 weeks.

Goals

Testing *** with Brandon and Tyler.
Testing ***, writing experience article and collect user』s feedback.

Challenges

For the first time in the past 2 weeks, I feel like being an product manager. I started really communicating with our colleagues and fixing problems and bugs. And finally it worked!

I also started test our MVP this afternoon, I pushed myself to compare the feeling I have with the existing apps on the market.

Details really matter, it is so true. But understanding the WHY makes all the difference.

Using the 5 WHY methodology can help me go deeper and understand the logic behind a simple interaction or animation.

My product experience article is finished about 80%. I will write down all the thoughts I had in my mind and start asking others for feedback and suggestion.

And during the observation process, it』s also going to a challenge for me. This is my first time observing test users』 habits and preferences, I think there should be a check-list, where you have all the things that you need to document and pay attention to. So I guess I have to do some research on that check-list tomorrow before I dive into collecting.

How』s your Wednesday? You』re already home with family or you are still fight for your dream alone in the city. Maybe we can have a conversation if you』re interested.

Have an epic Thursday and I』ll see you tomorrow!

Zake

be so good they can』t ignore you.