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:
" Many speakers get an identity crisis moment with their talk; that’s normal and usually leads to breakthroughs. "
Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation? (Videoconference)
May 2, 2024
" How do you influence people who don’t understand design or product? How do you get the results you need? "
Opening Remarks
November 29, 2023
" We only have agency over what we can execute on, so influencing strategy is limited by our expertise and role. "
Morning Insights Panel
December 6, 2022
" Almost all designers have this story of wanting something prioritized and being told it’s not on the roadmap. "
A PM State of Mind: Empathy Mapping Your Product Manager, Pt. 1
December 6, 2022
" We have to actually face these problems together and articulate them and then design solutions to them. "
Pulse Check: Empathy Mapping Your Product Manager, Pt. 2
December 6, 2022
" I myself career-wise went over to the dark side and became a product manager. "
Introduction by our Conference Chair
December 6, 2022
" Sometimes you need to slow things down and hit the brakes to prevent rushed, emotion-driven decisions. "
Afternoon Insights Panel
December 6, 2022
" You can use UX’s empathy and user understanding skills to design better working relationships with product folks. "
AMA with Christian Crumlish, author of Product Management for UX People (Videoconference)
March 24, 2022
