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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

This definition is a mouthful, so I like to visualize it. I’m going to walk through this visual quickly, and then Cecilie and I are going to dive into this in more depth. Using the Opportunity Solution Tree to Guide Discovery The visual at the center of this is called an opportunity solution tree. It’s that simple.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). To anyone outside the product team, we are design, engineering, QA, data, knowledge team, and often marketing. “Fairness” isn’t coming.

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Pinterest’s Personalization Playbook

UX Planet

Pinterest, positioned uniquely as a visual discovery engine, has significant potential to leverage personalization to foster deeper user engagement, retention, andloyalty. Key insight for Pinterest: A platform can successfully combine social personalization (friends/following-based) with content personalization.

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Unlocking Growth Through UX Research

UX Planet

According to the Nielsen Norman Group, quantitative data can identify where users encounter problems, but it often fails to explain why those problems occur Nielsen Norman Group,2023. The Emergence of Research-Driven Growth Authentic growth lies not only in analyzing quantitative data but in deeply understanding user behavior and motivations.

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Why Great Ideas Fail in Finance: It’s Not the Digital Product, It’s the UX

UX Planet

The answer lies in offering what others dontfeatures that make life easier and smarter, like real-time financial insights, savings alerts that actually help and seamless integration with the digital tools people already use. Smart insights are todays realvalue. Plain and simple, generic wont cut it anymore.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Behavioral insights: The data lead is responsible for producing a comprehensive meta-analysis of past behavioral analyses available at the company.

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Top PLG Product Manager Roles (+ Candidate Spotlight)

Userpilot

Data-driven decision-making: Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making and measure success. This team works on high-impact projects that aim to amplify our global user base and drive the long-term growth of our products through data analysis, value creation, and experimentation.