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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO."

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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Are the right tools applied? Next, collect the relevant data. Are they properly empowered and adequately qualified? If so, what are they?

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Sometimes hard UI can be a blessing

UX Planet

Diemand-Yauman, Oppenheimer & Vaughan, 2011) Since disfluent fonts improve outcomes when users are motivated to succeed, it’s quite possible the idea applies best in B2C contexts — where users often want to solve a problem, not just get through a task. Another common example is data density in tables. Interview by Joe Clark.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Last year Deloitte reported that the half-life of skills has fallen to five years, meaning the average person will need to retrain or reskill up to 10 times over the course of their working lives. Just look at the world of marketing: there are now more than 7,000 tools , up from a mere 150 in 2011.

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How Can Product Managers Reduce Cognitive Load To Increase Feature Adoption?

Mind the Product

Friction can take the form of anything that prevents a visitor from using a product and may include distracting information and visuals, inconsistencies in the interface, unnecessary steps, unclear navigation, unfamiliar design and confusing functions. It groups individual pieces of visual data together to make it easier to remember.

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Using Research in Material Design by Elizabeth Churchill

Mind the Product

Design Systems, including Material Design , have been popular in the tech industry since around 2011, and provide designers and developers with a set of guidelines and components that govern how a product should feel. Data Foundations: As the team has continued to evolve, data and analytics have become more important.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. There were many dozens of operation people at all levels who were responsible for a gazillion of back-office processes and tools that built and maintained eBay’s product catalog.