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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

Transforming communication with instant messaging. Its journey from a modest messaging app to a global giant in instant messaging has been nothing short of remarkable. They wanted to create an app that would allow users to send text messages, images, videos, and other media, without the need for expensive SMS plans.

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The Five Most Common Mistakes in Product Development

BrainMates

The Five Most Common Mistakes in Product Development. Some quotes put this higher – even up to 95% – but 40% is what empirical evidence indicates (see Castellion & Markham 2013 ). Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the ‘Fail Fast’ innovation motto.

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In Defense of Better Software Design.

The Product Coalition

Click “Export” and wait for a confirmation message. Microsoft released Word in 1983 and the Export feature for Word on Windows in 2013. When the developers were shown this test data, their first reaction was, “Where’d you find six dumb people?” Modify default names or folder locations if necessary.

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Seven Things you can Learn From WeChat Product Development

Mind the Product

App developers and designers may look at other apps for inspiration on new features, but most only look to well-known apps like Facebook Messenger and Snapchat. Here are seven lessons product developers and designers can learn from WeChat product development: 1. The Chinese have found their own way to use the messaging platform.

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457: The right way to apply Kickbox to unleash innovation in your organization – with Ralph Hartmeier

Product Innovation Educators

Around 2013, a serial entrepreneur named Mark Randall sold his startup to Adobe and joined Adobe. It’s important to spread the message that not every idea is good and not every idea needs to be good. Rready developed out of Swisscom, the largest telco and IT company of Switzerland. The whole box told a story.

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Cultivating a Product Mindset: How “No” became “YES, if…” became “Yes, IF…”

The Product Coalition

But then you consider the hard questions: “Does this mean you have to maintain a development schedule that supports new exciting releases each month?” “You You don’t currently share videos on the site, so is a development project needed to put them somewhere?” “Who Yes, if we can agree that not every message has to be groundbreaking.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. In this situation, it doesn’t matter who creates the product, whether it’s two fellow developers or a corporation giant like Google?—?or