Hi I'm Nick Marsh, a designer and product manager based in London. This site is an archive of some of the writing I've done, and therefore some of the things I've learnt, shipping digital products and building teams over the past ten years or so.
It's a pretty diverse set of essays, but that's because getting real things out the door requires pretty diverse approaches ... I hope you find something useful to apply to your work here. If you do, please do let me know. Get in touch via the contact page and for more regular updates please follow me on Twitter.
- What did I get from pitch to product in 2017?
- The VoiceBook Saga Part IV: Aftermath (Medium post)
- The VoiceBook Saga Part III: Return (Medium post)
- The VoiceBook Saga Part II: Voyage (Medium post)
- The VoiceBook Saga Part I: Genesis (Medium post)
- Towards a Universal Theory of Picture Books (Medium post)
- The Scent of Software (Medium post)
- The Janet and Alan Ahlberg product portfolio teardown (Medium post)
- Startups in the 3rd sector: Learning from Sidekick School
- It seemed like a good idea at the time
- Talenthacking
- Startup Studios. Are they a thing?
- Things we learnt trying, and failing, to build a regulated social savings service called Savemates
- Things we learnt trying, and failing, to build a ‘CRM for everybody else’
- Things we learnt trying, and failing, to build an e-commerce platform for selling digital goods
- Why I’m NOT learning to code
- The Stationary Required to Design Software
- Design All The Things
- On dads
- MVP-analytics
- Makeshift
- Forgemasters
- Design consultancy is dead! Long live design
- Brain Explosions
- The two important moments in creative careers
- Researching behaviour change - Interview with Dan Lockton
- Service Design from Scratch - Videos
- Service Design at Scale - Videos
- My old blog