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Systems Thinking and its Relevance to Strategic Planning in UX Research

UX Planet

Feedback loops: a system’s outputs affect its inputs, creating loops. Systems Thinking brings a broader approach to UX research, positioning product use within a more complex ecosystem and considering its interdependencies. Exploring feedback cycles and chain effects within the system. References RYAN, Alex.

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Learning from Failure: Product Manager Style

The Product Coalition

The original Peek Pronto designed solely for email was refreshing and innovative when it came to market in 2008. Start by defining your Minimum Viable Customer who you can use as a focus group to start the feedback loop. From a business perspective it was the right thing to do, but I put my management in a horrible position.

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Prashanth Chandrasekar on writing the script of the future

Intercom, Inc.

Created in 2008 as a question and answer site by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it has grown to become one of the primary technology communities on the web, and by far the largest corner of the Stack Exchange Network of sites, which collectively has more than 120 million monthly users. It’ll very much be a joint effort.

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How to tell your company story

Intercom, Inc.

We’re really lucky on the support team because we have a super tight feedback loop the helps us understand how well we’re applying Intercom’s story to our day to day work. It’s much harder to assume positive intent, put on your detective hat, and ask good questions before you drop that feedback on them.

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AI, Hype, And The Future Of Humanity | Rick Nucci, Guru | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

And so as things go through this and you know when we were launching Boomi the company I started before we launched in 2008 a cloud based offering right in the middle of all of this. And as an optimist that’s a problem for the good and the positive outcomes and use of technology. Yeah it’s a brilliant way to train and A.I.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

However, the gender gap has narrowed from a 25% gap in 2008 to 9% today. From our research, users seldom feel passionately — either positively or negatively — about the podcast app they’re using. There’s also a gender gap with podcast listeners skewing mostly male, mirroring the gap among podcast creators as well.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

However, the gender gap has narrowed from a 25% gap in 2008 to 9% today. From our research, users seldom feel passionately — either positively or negatively — about the podcast app they’re using. There’s also a gender gap with podcast listeners skewing mostly male, mirroring the gap among podcast creators as well.