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Breaking through

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With all the enthusiasm and openness of working with a fresh idea,  charting the new course can be a most inspiring task.  We can follow what we know works, or we can dig in to innovate.  Successful new products rarely emerge as a...

Product Team Purgatory

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Previously, I’ve written about the importance of having a clearly stated outcome or goal that serves both your organization and your user.  Once you have articulated this outcome, many teams reach a place of ideation and creation. It’s not...

Mapping People to Products

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New projects are exciting. Resetting an existing project from time to time is critical. Recently I’ve been working with teams within medium to large organizations where they are creating innovative products or experiences for their customers. Projects range from innovative app experiences,...

Happy new year!  

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Our journey at Citizen Made started out with full focus on product customization, and though mass customization is still near and dear to our hearts, the past two years have demanded that we think bigger, develop a wider gamut...

Hello world!

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While you've been busy making your goods, we've been cookin' up more goodies for you. What started as the little ecomm platform that could customize has evolved into strategic partnerships across all sorts of innovative product organizations. ...
LIFECLASS

On Set with Oprah

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While strolling the west loop on Randolph, the morning commute seems to have lost a bit of its bustle. After 26 years, Harpo Studios pulled up stakes from the Chicago headquarters that have been sending big love over the...
Just keep swimming.

Swimming with Threadless

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Ecommerce used to be a dirty word. When we have so many huge global issues to address, why would the best and brightest in digital work so hard to sell more stuff? Then, we started meeting the makers. Designers, mothers,...
archetype-journal

The Archetype Journal

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Work through the Archetype Journal and prepare to launch your own product line. Learn to merge multiple disciplines to develop a distinctive brand experience. Unite your team of designers, engineers, manufacturers + marketers around a cohesive product vision with this...

All the Kits

Launch This
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This summer we’ve been busy working out ideas and flow around the new Moto Mods product emerging from Chicago’s Motorola Mobility. Just this morning I worked though a super fun brainstorm to consider what we can build with...