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A Higher Common Sense

A place for Writings about Evidence-Based Design

  • CS 177 Human Centered Product Management
    • 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

Author: Varsha Saravanan

Varsha is a senior at Stanford studying Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction and coterming in Artificial Intelligence. She is eager to deepen her understanding of product management—both through foundational concepts and real-world applications.

Writeup: Measuring Me Take 2 – Varsha Saravanan

January 13, 2026

One behavior that I would love to change is my daily water intake. As someone who is often dehydrated, drinking water consistently has been…

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Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot? – Varsha Saravanan

November 26, 2025

I would recommend that PulsePoint catch the Gen AI salesbot wave so it does not lose its competitive edge as the market warms up…

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Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies – Varsha Saravanan

November 26, 2025

Spotify, LinkedIn, and TikTok all use personalization to drive business metrics, but they achieve different goals and get varied streams of ROI from it….

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Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up – Varsha Saravanan

November 26, 2025

Speaking up in a place where a majority consensus goes unchallenged, or where an issue has to be raised against a boss, can be…

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Product Sense Pushups: Crisis Management — Error States and Recovery – Varsha Saravanan

November 13, 2025

Slack’s focus on work management and productivity tools makes workplace retention crucial. Key error types include message sending failures, ineffective search and partial results,…

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Phase 2 WORK: One-Pager – EduSphere

November 13, 2025

Project Brief: Edusphere Tutor Pivot November 12, 2025 by Kevin Chen, Kristine Ma, Varsha Saravanan, Sarah Teaw, Maria Wang, and Alex Yansouni Background Edusphere,…

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Product Sense Pushups: Subscription Decisions – Varsha Saravanan

November 7, 2025

Spotify uses a mix of nudges to get free listeners to upgrade. Ads pop up during listening, skip counts are limited, and downloads and…

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Product Pushups: Discovery Patterns – Varsha Saravanan

November 3, 2025

Netflix connects users to content primarily through recommendations. Returning users see rows based on what they recently watched, alongside category based suggestions tailored to…

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Individual Reflection, Pitch Presentation – Varsha Saravanan

October 23, 2025

Working on the Edusphere pitch was an insightful experience. The case study gave us a solid starting point, but we quickly found significant information…

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