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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Product Owners: How to get Your Development Team to Love you was a post from Daniel Elizalde with some relationship advice, product management style, via a ProductTank presentation from former Apple Product Manager and industry veteran Ron Lichty. How do product owners get their development teams to love them?

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

For app stores, these are the developers that actually create the products. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. For a more esoteric category, like Github, it’s helpful to bring on some prominent Open Source projects and key developers. You could sign up without filling in a bunch of forms.

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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. Perhaps the name of the feature is confusing, or the UI doesn’t resonate. Gamification is not just for games and entertainment-focused apps. Simply put: User friction can single-handedly sink an app’s usefulness.