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The pitfalls of being data-driven

Mixpanel

In 2006, Facebook rolled out its News Feed feature–and boy, did people hate it. Has there been positive or negative user feedback for your product? You run a quick A/B test over a week and see no change in sessions, so you push the update live. In the same way, product design should be influenced by more than just data.

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The pitfalls of being data-driven

Mixpanel

In 2006, Facebook rolled out its News Feed feature–and boy, did people hate it. Has there been positive or negative user feedback for your product? You run a quick A/B test over a week and see no change in sessions, so you push the update live. In the same way, product design should be influenced by more than just data.

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What Makes Amazon’s Product Strategy So Sticky?

ProductPlan

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. Then in 2006, Amazon added AWS to the product mix. For Amazon, speed is a critical competitive differentiator. It would help if you started with a positioning document.

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part I)

UX Planet

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step. Their 5 points 1.Comprehensive

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Frequent touch points and positive interactions will create strong relationships and build customer loyalty. Frequent touch points and frequent positive interactions. I have not been to San Francisco this year and this will be the first time since 2006 that I haven’t been to San Francisco in a year, which is just crazy.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. By 2004, Microsoft was already announcing that they didn’t want to support it anymore, and by 2006 they ended support for it. If we build in usability testing earlier in the development cycle, we are able to answer, “Can customers use it?” The Lean Startup.