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    • CS177 Human Centered Product Management Syllabus
      • Lecture 5B- Agile and Storymapping
    • Lecture 1A | Introduction to Human-Centered Product Management
      • What do you want from CS177
      • 1A Welcome to CS 177: Human-Centered Product Management 1
    • Lecture 1B | Human-Centered Product Management
      • 1B Strategy for Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2A | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2B | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 3A – Markets & Tech Stack
    • Lecture 3B — Guest and Value Proposition
    • Lecture 4B – Participatory Roadmaps & Case Study
    • Lecture 5a– Agile, User Stories and User Story Mapping
  • CS247B Design for Behavior Change
    • 1A Introducing Design for Behavior Change
    • 1B Norms, Models, Brainstorm, Screeners
    • 2A Norms and Study Guide
    • 2B Ethics, Persuasion and B=MAT
    • 3A Secondary Research and Theories of Behavior Change
    • 3B Switch, Fraud,
  • Product Management Library
  • The How and Why of Sketchnotes
    • Glossary for Design Techniques

Month: October 2025

Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

October 30, 2025

Netflix When I opened up Netflix, many of the recommended shows and movies filled my screen. I barely had to type in anything—the platform…

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Discovery Patterns

October 30, 2025

Netflix’s interface is dominated by personalization: rows of content (“Because you watched …”, “Top picks for you”, “Continue watching”) and a large featured banner…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

October 30, 2025

Each platform’s discovery design reflects its business goals. Netflix optimizes for engagement time. Its homepage removes search friction by auto playing trailers, surfacing personalized…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

October 30, 2025

Netflix The Netflix search model is similar to that of the Amazon checkout process. I think it’s interesting how when you search for an…

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Helping Users Find

October 30, 2025

Search Feature One key aspect of companies such as Netflix, YouTube, and Airbnb that often gets overlooked is their search feature. This is critical…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse – Lour Drick

October 30, 2025

Introduction Each of the three platforms want to help users find content as easily as possible, but their approach to this varies depending on…

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Youtube, Airbnb, and Netflix

October 30, 2025

All three platforms solve a similar problem. There are too many choices, and users need help deciding what to do next. But these designs…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

October 30, 2025

Netflix Netflix has changed a lot throughout the years. As it stands, it is clear their objective is to get you watching and keep…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

October 30, 2025

Youtube Overview Youtube helps people find content by allowing them to search with a recommendation algorithm that can prioritize content that users are subscribed…

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