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Collaboration Event Ideas with Vancouver Design Community

Avatar of Jackie HoJackie Ho
·Nov 09, 2025 06:12 PM·

Hello everyone! We are in discussions of possible collaboration event involving design with our friends from Vancouver Design Community. Some event topic suggestions

  • Navigating the overlapping responsibilities between Product Management & Product Design

  • Innovation vs iteration - When to push for bold redesigns vs incremental improvements

  • Design systems as product thinking - shared ownership and governance

  • How AI tools are reshaping both roles (and where they overlap)

  • “Who owns the user?” - When PMs and designers disagree on user needs vs business priorities

  • Speed vs quality - MVP mindset meets design excellence

  • Prioritization frameworks that work for both disciplines

Have a topic you’d like to see covered above or another recommendation? Comment below and we’ll create a poll to let the community decide. Thank you! Jackie Ho Product Manager & UX Engineer ProductBC Event & Marketing

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    • Avatar of Vandana Kala
      Vandana Kala
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      What a wonderful news of the collaboration event, All the topics sound great but would love to hear more on "Speed vs quality - MVP mindset meets design excellence"

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    • Avatar of Steve Jones
      Steve Jones
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      Those all look great. Two other ideas:

      • "Design and Product Management when the 'users' are AI Agents"

      • "How Designers and Product Managers can work together to create uniquely differentiated products as AI steers products towards similarity"

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    • Avatar of Matt Lambert
      Matt Lambert
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      One of the biggest disconnects I often see is misunderstanding how to properly do iterative development and/or incremental delivery Ship your MVP, actually measure it, continue to iterate on feedback from users... moving fast, creating momentum. This one always seems to breakdown between product + design

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    • Avatar of Randy Epp
      Randy Epp
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      Working with designers is my favourite thing about making product! I'm a big believer in roles being pretty fluid based on the skills of the pm / designer pair, but I think that about nearly every role/team. I don't have a topic, but would love to watch/listen.

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    • Avatar of Jeanine Longley
      Jeanine Longley
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      keen on; Innovation vs iteration - When to push for bold redesigns vs incremental improvements, Speed vs quality - MVP mindset meets design excellence