The Lean Product Playbook 10 Years Later: Product Management in the Age of AI

In this interview, Dan Olsen discusses with Aakash Gupta how AI has changed product management, emphasizing its impact on prototyping and the importance of user research. Olsen highlights AI's ability to empower product managers to create prototypes quickly, even without extensive design resources, but cautions against over-reliance on AI, which can lead to generic designs and a neglect of problem space exploration. He stresses the need for product designers to evolve and integrate AI tools into their workflows, focusing on more creative and strategic aspects of design. Olsen also shares practical tips for conducting user testing, emphasizing the value of moderated sessions and a systematic approach to capturing and acting on user feedback to achieve product-market fit.