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Alan Klement on Designing Around Jobs-to-be-Done

Chris Spiek

How do you go about designing product features around Jobs-to-be-Done? This week on Jobs-to-be-Done Radio we’re joined by Alan Klement who talks about how he came up with his version of the job story, and shares some great examples of …

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Streema Co-Founder Martin Siniawski on JTBD Radio

Chris Spiek

This week we continue to explore how Jobs-to-be-Done and the Lean Startup movement are intertwined. We’re joined by Martin Siniawski, the co-founder of Streema as well as one of our beloved jobs-to-be-done experts, Amrita Chandra from Shape and Sound. Martin talks …

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Dave and Brenna from MeetUp on JTBD Radio

Chris Spiek

During this episode Dave and Brenna talk about how Jobs-to-be-Done is being used at MeetUp alongside their well-established usability testing practice.  They even share some of the Jobs-to-be-Done that people hire Meetup to do and the subtle anxieties that go …

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Jobs-to-be-Done Interview: Buying a Smartphone

Chris Spiek

Jobs-to-be-Done Radio is back this week with another sample interview for you to listen to and learn from.  Tune in to hear us unpack how Becky from Red-Gate software came to decide that it was time to ditch her feature-phone and …

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Photos From the Switch: September 2013 at 37signals

Chris Spiek

The Switch Workshop returned to 37signals in Chicago on September 27th to talk to another group of designers, product managers, and entrepreneurs about what makes people buy the products that they buy.

Forces Friday: Habit of the Present

Chris Spiek

Our Forces Friday series concludes this week with an in-depth discussion of the Habit of the Present: Why would a consumer have to break a habit in order to buy a Roomba vacuum cleaner? Chris, Bob, and Ervin discuss the force using …

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Upcoming Switch Workshops

Chris Spiek

If you’re looking to make it to a Switch Workshop this year, you’ve got some great options coming up! Friday, September 27th at 37Signals in Chicago – Registration & Details Wednesday, October 30th at Business of Software in Boston (this is …

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Vote Up the JTBD Panel at SxSW!

Chris Spiek

We’re lucky because so many of you that read this blog, listen to JTBD Radio, and attend the Switch Workshops decide to become actively involved at spreading the word about Jobs-to-be-Done. Today we have a very specific way that you …

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