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:
" Give a s**t. Care about your topic, and convey that enthusiasm to make a talk resonate. "
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
" Product managers influence without formal authority, carrying a lot of pressure and accountability. "
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 wrote the book because people have a lot of questions about how to become a product manager or how to work with product managers. "
Introduction by our Conference Chair
December 6, 2022
" In a startup, I share long-term fringe ideas to help engineers and designers avoid boxing themselves in. "
Afternoon Insights Panel
December 6, 2022
" Product managers are responsible for value — making sure something valuable is created that meets real needs. "
AMA with Christian Crumlish, author of Product Management for UX People (Videoconference)
March 24, 2022
