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The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Problem Design

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Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy

Jan 18, 2026

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7 min read

Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy

Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

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See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen

Jan 11, 2026

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11 min read

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen

The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

Your metrics are an avoidance strategy

Jan 4, 2026

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7 min read

Your metrics are an avoidance strategy

Being able to quantify outcomes doesn't make them meaningful. Moving past artificial metrics requires building shared intention with colleagues.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

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Bouncing back from burnout

Dec 26, 2025

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6 min read

Bouncing back from burnout

The causes of burnout are systemic. You can't get out of it just by trying harder.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

LLMs

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AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber

Dec 20, 2025

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7 min read

AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber

The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Feedback Loops

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Stop doing UX cheerleading

Dec 14, 2025

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9 min read

Stop doing UX cheerleading

Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov
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