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# [Weekly Retro] Ingredients
- URL: https://www.cesarrg.com/weekly-retro-ingredients/
- Published: 2024-06-13T22:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-11T20:48:09.000Z
- Author: César Rodríguez
- Tags: Weekly Retro, Techniques

#53 - Jun.2024

Happy Friday!

💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off for the weekend:

These are the common ingredients I’ve seen in teams developing great products: 

- An effective product strategy that drives the team’s focus;
- A strong engineering culture towards innovation and simplification;
- A good design taste to offer customers the best experience.

**✉️ Post from this week**

This week I wrote about how to become an effective product leader by learning the basics of design:

[Design taste#107 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. As a product leader today, I think these are essential complementary skills. You can develop a good design taste even if your role is not being a designer. Design is the common language between product, UX, and engineering, and everyone in the team can contribute.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/size/w256h256/2024/02/CRLogo_2024-60-60.png)César's blogCésar Rodríguez![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/size/w1200/2024/06/IMG_2029-2.png)](https://www.cesarrg.com/design-taste/)

**👨🏻‍💻 Interesting links I found during this week**

[Design with AI | Xinran Ma | SubstackPractical articles every week to help you design better, faster, and smarter with AI. Click to read Design with AI, by Xinran Ma, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c2debfc-e49d-42cc-9c80-a595f08cf582%2Fapple-touch-icon-180x180.png)SubstackXinran Ma![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fdesignwithai.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D563507535%26version%3D9)](https://designwithai.substack.com/)

**🖋️ Quote of the week:**

> **“It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”** – Jony Ive

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