Christian Crumlish
Author of Product Management for UX People
Christian Crumlish is a product and UX leadership consultant at Design in Product, where he also hosts a product/UX community. Most recently, he led the product management of covid19.ca.gov and consulting on govtech product practices with California’s Office of Digital Innovation. He is also a mentor at Code for America and StartX, and a fellow in the Rosenfeld Media Experts network. Christian earned an AB at Princeton in philosophy.
Formerly, he was head of product at 7 Cups, winner of the 2016 Stanford Medicine X Prize for health systems design and a 2019 World Economic Forum Pioneer. He has also co-chaired the monthly BayCHI program, was senior director of product at CloudOn, was director of messaging products for AOL (AIM), was the last curator of the Yahoo design pattern library, and served two terms as a director of the late lamented Information Architecture Institute.
Christian is the author of the recently published Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World. He also authored the bestselling ?The Internet for Busy People and ?The Power of Many?, and co-author of ?Designing Social Interfaces?. Christian lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Briggs Nisbet, and an ever-growing collection of ukuleles.
Rosenverse talks by Christian:
" If your talk isn’t accepted, it may just not fit the program the way other talks do — keep submitting and refining. "
Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation? (Videoconference)
May 2, 2024
" We advance any field by coming up with ideas, sharing them, testing them out, discussing them, poking at them a bit. "
Opening Remarks
November 29, 2023
" Framing goals around behaviors helps create better, more meaningful objectives that anticipate how things could go wrong. "
Morning Insights Panel
December 6, 2022
" It’s so important to not seek control, but understanding. "
A PM State of Mind: Empathy Mapping Your Product Manager, Pt. 1
December 6, 2022
" We have UX superpowers designed to solve complex workflow problems and make things that don’t work work better. "
Pulse Check: Empathy Mapping Your Product Manager, Pt. 2
December 6, 2022
" I’ve sometimes held both jobs at once which I don’t recommend. "
Introduction by our Conference Chair
December 6, 2022
" Storytelling is not process-oriented but is relevant for each team in terms they understand. "
Afternoon Insights Panel
December 6, 2022
" The conversation about who does what on product teams needs constant negotiation and renegotiation. "
AMA with Christian Crumlish, author of Product Management for UX People (Videoconference)
March 24, 2022
