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“Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio

Smashing Magazine, Talke Hoppmann-Walton, Apr 25 2025

Building A User Segmentation Matrix To Foster Cross-Org Alignment

Smashing Magazine, Talke Hoppmann-Walton, May 17 2024

Citizen Perceptions of The European Union: The Impact of the EU Website

This book examines user perceptions of European Union institutions and compares them to perceptions communicators within these institutions have of their users. This book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of communication, European studies, political science, and information science, as well as to policy makers and government officials involved in (online) communication at the EU-, national-, or local level.

Cambria Press, Talke Hoppmann-Walton, March 2010

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Stop Calling It a Product | How to ensure that you're going big enough in Discovery
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Stop Calling It a Product | How to ensure that you're going big enough in Discovery

Treating every challenge as a “product” problem can be limiting. Sometimes, the most innovative solutions emerge when we think in terms of services and experiences.

Too often, teams rush into feature-mode. While still fully in the problem space teams start describing solutions as dashboards, or portals, or tools. Before anyone has articulated the real need, they’ve already jumped to solving it.

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Case study: Forging cross-company collaboration
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Case study: Forging cross-company collaboration

Harnessing the power of a remote team while improving both company and user experience strategy. Blending design thinking methods, workshop facilitation and design team management, UX, my dear was able to improve cross-company collaboration, product logic and ways of working within the product design team.

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