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How Stripe built an internal prototyping tool that’s created 12,000 prototypes so far (opens the original)
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🔒DoP Deep goes deeper into the concepts and ideas that are covered in the Weekly Briefing to help you learn lessons from the experiences of top tech companies. If you’d like to upgrade to receive these in-depth pieces of analysis you can upgrade below. New reports are added every month.Subscribe now<h
🔵 Meta’s Muse comes to your keyring - but Amazon isn’t happy (opens the original)
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Hi product people 👋,This week, Meta’s Muse agent crossed over 500,000 users and made the jump into an impressive looking new piece of hardware, but Amazon has banned it. We’ll take a closer look at the details.Plus, Figma’s CEO explains why he thinks UIs won’t disappear and the AI Agent safety concerns continue, prompting companies to ship new Agent auditing capabilities.This is your Product Briefing. Have a great week ahead!Follow on Substack Notes<a class="button primary" href="https://
Introducing Product Intelligence (opens the original)
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Hi product people 👋,This month marks just over 3 years since the Department of Product launched on Substack and I wanted to reach out to say thanks a lot for your support during that time!Over the past 3 years, we’ve grown to over 70,000 subscribers across our platforms and we’ve always tried our best to unpack everything that’s happening each week and transform that into actionable insights you can use to shape your own product’s strategy.At the start of 2026, I spent some time thinking about w
Making Sense of the New Product Development Model (opens the original)
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🔒DoP Deep goes deeper into the concepts and ideas that are covered in the Weekly Briefing to help you learn lessons from the experiences of top tech companies. If you’d like to upgrade to receive these in-depth pieces of analysis you can upgrade below. New reports are added every month.Subscribe now<h
Shopify’s CEO says “AI Slop Grenades” are ruining productivity (opens the original)
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Hi product people 👋,This week, Shopify’s CEO argued that one of the biggest challenges for tech companies is dealing with what he calls “AI Slop Grenades”. Plus, new UX patterns driven by new technologies are starting to emerge. We’ll take a look at some of them including real time voice collaboration with Gemini, personal agents that can renegotiate contracts on your behalf and Snap’s new vision for “anticipatory UX” in AR glasses.This is your Product Briefing. Have a great week ahead!Rich<a hr
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