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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
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      • 1B Strategy for Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2A | Human-Centered Product Management
    • Lecture 2B | Human-Centered Product Management
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    • Lecture 3B — Guest and Value Proposition
    • Lecture 4B – Participatory Roadmaps & Case Study
    • Lecture 5a– Agile, User Stories and User Story Mapping
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    • 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,
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Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies — Customization vs. Automation

November 19, 2025

Introduction In today’s world, a “one size fits all” business model can be detrimental to success. Every company aims to make you believe their…

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BUSINESS: Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot?

November 18, 2025

Intro The issue Jeannie and her company face is only going to grow more common in the upcoming months and years. Like with any…

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CASE STUDY: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Internship Ethics)

November 13, 2025

Intro This ethics case is fascinating, especially for those early in their pre-professional career who will need to pursue internships and jobs in the…

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Product Sense Pushups: Crisis Management — Error States and Recovery

November 13, 2025

Intro   There is perhaps no moment as consequential for an app’s success as its error handling. Left unchecked, errors can ruin a user’s…

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Product Sense Pushups: Subscription Decisions — Paywall and Upgrade Flows

November 5, 2025

Intro In today’s market, freemium models dominate. Everything from Fortnite to Cursor offers a limited selection initially, but expands greatly once you opt for…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

October 30, 2025

Intro Search is an oft-overlooked feature that is fundamental to many of our favorite modern applications. It’s the tool behind our ability to procure…

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Product Sense Pushups: Purchase Intent — E-commerce Checkout

October 22, 2025

Intro For this week’s Product Sense Pushups, I examined the checkout flows of three online marketplaces: Amazon, Warby-Parker, and Patagonia. Each focuses on different…

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Product Sense Pushups: Onboarding

October 16, 2025

Intro Although Notion, Instagram, and Venmo serve very different functions, they all share one key similarity: scale. Each has over 95 million users, with…

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BUSINESS: Eager Sellers Stony Buyers

October 12, 2025

Intro Eager Sellers, Stony Buyers is an article that explores the major differences between how sellers view a new product and how buyers see…

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