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Let’s Talk About Faster Horses

The Product Coalition

There’s no way to succeed without talking to customers. Photo by Martin Damboldt Whenever I tell product people that they must talk to customers, someone brings up the famous Henry Ford quote about faster horses: “ If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” But wait, it doesn’t stop there!

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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

Though this number is more related to physical products, it only takes a little effort to realize this is true for digital products. This brings us to an important question that every product manager and the associated tech teams ask themselves every time they dip their feet in the river of building digital products.

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The Nintendo Switch Did Everything Right, Except for Just One Thing…

The Product Coalition

I grew up on all its handhelds and home consoles, starting with the original DS back in 2006. This is a pretty important tool for many who are vision-impaired. The most a vision-impaired user can do is simply learn the distinctive sounds the console makes when navigating around the menu. I’m a massive Switch fan.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

I’d like to share five lessons from my experience that can help you start your own journey. From my experience, the problems that ML can help to solve usually fall into one of these buckets below: Could we make the user experience more tailored and personalised? Could we make the user experience safer?

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Alchemer Acquires Apptentive, Market-Leading Mobile Feedback Platform

Alchemer Mobile

Acquisition expands Alchemer’s ability to help brands close the loop with their customers. January 4, 2023 – Alchemer – a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology – announced today the acquisition of Apptentive, the industry leader in mobile feedback technology. LOUISVILLE, Colo.

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more.

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4 Traits of Successful Product Leaders

UserVoice

While many roles in an organization are highly measurable—salespeople hitting their quotas, customer support issue turnaround time, system uptime, etc.—there’s But at the same time, product leaders still need to understand technical concepts and be able to talk about them with knowledge and authority. “To