Vinish Garg

I am still searching.

The foundation is at the intersections, not within the teams or functions.

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Working on the foundational intersection of product—for positioning, onboarding, UX, marketability, and content design and strategy, with a system thinking lens to support their goals.

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Speed is not in faster shipping. Link

Products die because of lack of conversations. Link

Product intelligence. Link

Design is NOT hard. Link

On high quality products. Link

Engineering and UX. Link

Inspiring leaders need learning teams. Link

Design and content systems for product metrics. Link

The state of design, 2024. Link

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A grandma raised a tomato somewhere. See article

“My grandmother told me that our tongue was our most important organ—working or non-working. Like a zipper.”

Methods

Practice Blogs, newsletters Communities Product leaders Consulting Volunteering, Consulting Teaching
2008-2010: "Connecting with experts" Started following global content strategy experts: Scott Abel, Mark Baker, Tom Johnson, Larry Kunz, Marcia R. Johnston, Karen McGrane, Michael Andrews, Christina Wodtke. Discussions and building knowledge.
2016: "Getting into products" Shifted focus to understanding product viability from Dan Martell, Fred Wilson, Ryan Hoover, Patrick Campbell, Tomasz Tunguz, First Round Review, Mattermark, and more. Connecting UX to products and business goals.
2020-Present: Practice by practice Apply the design, content, and product thinking via consulting work. Learning by doing remains the foundation of all my practice areas.
2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2026

Experiments

Interviewed Hosted industry conversations and interviews with thought leaders. Featured in multiple interviews exploring content strategy, UX, and product thinking.
Curation Ran multiple curation platforms: Paper.li daily digests, Revue newsletter, and Substack. Curated and shared valuable content for the design and product community.
Paper.li, Revue, Storify, Somewhere Substack →
Interests • MatterMark, Mark Suster, Fred Wilson, Tomasz Tunguz, Dan Martell, First Round Capital, the Buffer blog, and many more

• ICC and many content strategy and UX conferences, Twitter

• Co-matter, SPACE10, WePresent, Owtcome, Donut Economy, and many others

• The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge
Hover "Interests" label for details →
Product Hunt Active Product Hunt contributor. Replying to Ryan Hoover on their InVision mockups and engaging with the startup community.
Early contributor, spoke to hundreds of founders
2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2026

My experiments in curation, being interviewed is such a great learning, and had lots of discussions with industry leaders and experts.

Projects

Content Hug A small curation for content strategy, information architects, and technical writers, and got positive reviews from the community.
My conference My product—an international conference for a full-cycle product experience for sponsors, speakers, participants, and registrations lifecycle
Hosting series
Austria Lecture Teaching content design (content design, UX, products, marketing) in the masters program in content strategy, in Graz University, Austria
Quoted Quoted or mentioned by authors in their books including Mark Baker, by orgs and publishers—Zapier, ProfitWell, ContentEd, and others
2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2026

Made Content Hug, running my international conference, hosting international guests, and teaching UX, content design, and products in Austria University.

Life elsewhere

Letters to my son teens → seven → five → The Fifth Discipline A video → A walk in Chandigarh Interview → Steering Details →
2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2026

Personal explorations: Walking experiences, letters to my son, a career design service for students, and a big influence from The Fifth Discipline.

The lens

Technical content Content strategy, UX Products and SaaS Systems thinking Holistic product thinking 2011: overlap begins 2015: triple overlap 2020: integration
2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2026

The gains accumulated and integrated to shape the systems, synthesizing all those learnings and perspectives into product thinking.

Standards

I always believe in defining certain standards of how we work and why we work in a given situation. I have often admired Stripe for their standards, it just shows in their product and in positioning. Disclaimer They may not be perfect and you might have your own experiences but every interaction with these two orgs shows their attention and care in the work.

Library of best references

Stripe Docs for the Search UX, Tomasz Tunguz and Dave Kellogg, Intelligence Content Conference blog by Marcia Reifer Johnston, Netflix UX Writing, Reformation, LikeAGirl campaign, product wisdom shared by Brain Balfour, John Cutler, and Marty Cagan, Ha Phan and Christina Wodtke, Michael Andrews, Jeff Eaton, Noz Urbina, Civic tech practitioners including Shannon Mattern and Cyd Harrell, Kevin Richard of Design and Critical Thinking, and a few Slack communities that I am part of.

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This page is inspired by Bret Victor. Visual support credits Claude.