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As organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of design to strategy, designers have an opportunity to shape decisions at the highest level, moving beyond low-level UI/UX decisions to product vision and strategy. In The Designer's Guide to Product Vision , pioneering product design visionary Laura Fish helps you level up your skills and become a modern design leader. Fish shows how to make the hard-won transformation to strategic designer, and harness your new power by championing product visions that make a powerful difference. You'll learn how to: Lead digital product journeys in an agile world, using product vision as a strategic compass that keeps everyone aligned in the face of change Bind your product to purposeful direction: delivering the best experience that solves for user problems through the lens of business objectives Master the exceptional business communication skills you need to command business endeavors based on product or service vision Secure dedicated resources, assemble your team, and captain your visioneering expedition to success Fish provides practical tools that help you apply her strategies, including product vision proposal document deliverables, storytelling arc templates, vision solution story templates, and more. With her guidance and resources, you can leave pixel-pushing behind -- and change your world.

In Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her family's Jamaican estate Kaydia, the Creole housekeeper, tries to protect her daughter from their predatory master; and a recently freed black slave, Sheba, mourns the loss of her lover. As Elizabeth, a passionate abolitionist, struggles to come to terms with the source of her wealth and privilege both Sheba and Kydia fight to escape a tragic past which seems ever-present. The resulting novel is an extraordinary evocation of the dark side of the nineteenth-century that is both horrifying and ultimately redeeming.

Set against the backdrop of AIDS-ravaged Eswatini, the story follows Koliwe Oxford as she leaves her past behind to work as an aid worker after her father's death. The harsh reality of the region starkly contrasts with her father's artistic tales. When a local girl named Thandi goes missing, Koliwe embarks on a gripping quest for the truth, delving into the mountains and uncovering the complexities of the community along the way.