Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I had a lot of fun during this open and candid discussion and I thought Product Talk readers might want to check it out, especially if you’re in a leadership role and you have a product team or teams reporting to you. Let’s test our assumptions. How do we get our teams access to the right tools to quickly test assumptions?

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. Want to check out the other posts in this series?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

10: Piola Digital Solutions. #11: It’s about anticipating what a user might want to do with a piece of software and making sure all elements are intuitive, easy-to-use, and visually pleasing. Ask to see the designer’s portfolio and look at what projects they’ve done in the past (type of product, tools used, industry, etc.)

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eG Innovations

APRIL 22, 2021

In a recent survey of 1,050 digital workspace professionals, eG Innovations and xenappblog reported that 34% of respondents were already using Microsoft WVD. WVD was also the most popular DaaS service in the cloud. You can also use our tools to benchmark user experience when using different configurations for WVD.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

As the CEO of Dribbble, a global community and invite-only platform for designers to share and find work, Zack Onisko faces a unique challenge: how do you grow a gated product? Over time it’s become more of a mixed platform. Playbook came out in 2016, after many years of us watching this evolution. What drove that change?

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In response, he has given them processes to follow and skilled people to carry them out, which leads to market-responsive products and services. At the same time, they produce their vehicles with a level of quality that led Consumer Reports to give the Model S a score of 103 out of 100 on their road test.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

According to AppAnnie’s 2019 State of Mobile Report , consumers sourced food and drinks through apps 130% more often in 2018 than in 2016. The report attributes this growth mainly to the increasing popularity of both fast food apps (QSR—Quick Service Restaurants) and the rise of food delivery services.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

SaaS product marketing is the strategies and tactics applied to software products and apps to create demand and drive the adoption and retention of said product by the end-user. Recommend complementary software and leverage brand association. Experiment, test, get feedback, and improve in a continuous loop. Let’s jump in.

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

There are many components both datacenter-side and client-side which must be optimally performing together to deliver a consistent and performing virtualized apps and desktops solution. and we have published the same apps on Windows 2008 and Windows 2016 respectively. Windows 2016. We have XenApp 6.5/XenApp XenApp 7.6,

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I believe the answer is to use a test-and-learn approach to create a minimum lovable product (MLP) product – or the version of a new product a business can launch to create customer love with the least amount of effort and expense. The test-and-learn approach my colleagues at Moonshot and I use is an adaptation of the Design Sprint.

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BrainStation Product Management

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that Product Manager was the most coveted job title among M.B.A. percent in 2016 compared to the year before. In part because attitudes and technologies around product management have changed rapidly in recent years, and it can be difficult to find candidates who understand those shifts.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

TL;DR Funnel charts are excellent tools for visualizing how data flows through a funnel. It is also a great tool for finding outliers. Bar charts are excellent numeric comparison tools, with bar sizes revealing the relative difference in sizes. Analyzing event distribution over multiple platforms. A vertical bar chart.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Precinct chairs across Iowa reported issues with the new election app that was intended to streamline the Democrats’ somewhat complicated caucusing process. If your buyer and your user are the same—like with a personal smartphone or streaming service—then this isn’t a bad thing. They were only the buyers.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Precinct chairs across Iowa reported issues with the new election app that was intended to streamline the Democrats’ somewhat complicated caucusing process. If your buyer and your user are the same—like with a personal smartphone or streaming service—then this isn’t a bad thing. They were only the buyers.

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Nulab

JULY 9, 2019

In 2016, over 1 in 3 employees in the U.S. Well-stocked refrigerators may be a staple in Silicon Valley offices, but it can be a very cost-effective solution for bringing people together and may even help promote healthier eating habits. . Get the solutions you need at Nulab.com. . Technology – 10.1%.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We launched the first version in 2016, but have given it a full overhaul that brings all the visualizations of the web to mobile. We use BigQuery at Mixpanel to calculate certain advanced business trends that span systems of record. Run up to 2,296 Mixpanel reports in a week. Here is what our customer, PatientPing, did.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As your newsfeed was becoming more and more cluttered with grim reports of the coronavirus spread, you may have inadvertently missed some exciting news from the world of product. Building your own product adoption tools can set you back a lot of money. Call us to see how easy it is to set up A/B tests with it!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There was a lot of praise for the ingenuity of the technology, but the user experience left a little to be desired…perhaps we were all a little too inspired by the flawless communication abilities of Sci-Fi virtual assistants. Now that Amazon has made such leaps with its AI technology , it’s hard to imagine life without it.

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Alty

MARCH 9, 2017

According to the annual IFPI report on the State of the Music Industry, music streaming is setting a whole new range of records: Consumption of audio streams has increased by 93% in the US in 2016. Over 900 million users don’t mind using ad-supported music streaming services. Streaming revenues are up by 45.2%

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BrainStation Product Management

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that Product Manager was the most coveted job title among M.B.A. percent in 2016 compared to the year before. In part because attitudes and technologies around product management have changed rapidly in recent years, and it can be difficult to find candidates who understand those shifts.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

1 AI Technology and Voice Control Text based inputs and clicking or tapping buttons is kind of “old”. Smart systems like Google Home, Siri for Apple and Alexa are already known, but the number of these systems is growing rapidly. And these systems are becoming more and more intelligent. Don’t know what AI is?

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DISQO

OCTOBER 18, 2017

billion people having interfaced with one in 2016. Then we tested potential solutions by running experiments to find out how they would react to it and see where there are opportunities to effectively engage patients. Again by using Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform , the team explored potential solutions to this problem.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 18, 2017

billion people having interfaced with one in 2016. Then we tested potential solutions by running experiments to find out how they would react to it and see where there are opportunities to effectively engage patients. Again by using Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform , the team explored potential solutions to this problem.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. Putting Discovery Practices Into Context: The Opportunity Solution Tree [21:32]. Productized 2016 – Lisbon, Portugal.

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Userzoom

APRIL 4, 2018

The best way to ensure this, if you’re serious about making your website accessible to all users, is to include users with disabilities in your accessibility UX testing, to ensure that they can accomplish what they need to with your website interface. 4) Using automated evaluation tools to check for accessibility is enough.

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eG Innovations

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

HDX Optimization for Teams allows you to deliver 720p high-definition video calls at 30fps through your Virtual Apps and Desktops solution. The optimized solution can be thought of as splitting the Teams client into two, with the user interface living inside of the VDA and the media rendering/engine running on the endpoint.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 18, 2017

billion people having interfaced with one in 2016. Then we tested potential solutions by running experiments to find out how they would react to it and see where there are opportunities to effectively engage patients. Again by using Alpha’s on-demand platform , the team explored potential solutions to this problem.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2021

The human skills I included in the survey above (and many that I didn’t) are not just important, but may even be the deciding factor between whether a product or service is a long-lasting success that fills a real need, or a flash-in-the-pan that people only remember for the memes it left in its wake. Lack of) Empathy in action.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 8, 2018

People use voice interfaces because they can interact easy, speedy and hands-free, primarily at home or in the car, as Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report shows. A Nielsen Company audience report reveals that US adults devoted about 10 hours and 39 minutes each day to watching screens in 2016. Less intrusive.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Jeff Bezos, 2016 Letter to Shareholders. Our own North Star Metric is weekly querying users, not just folks wandering into the product once a month to ‘pull a report.’. Their problem space is not A/B or multivariate testing-friendly. It’s the curiosity, testing, repetition, and refinement that truly counts. Try something.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 17, 2018

In 2016, Sanette joined Vox Media as the design lead for their first ever innovation team. So my team is responsible for our design system and our audience-facing experience across all of our edit networks. I used to be a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Our first product designer on the podcast! ). Sanette: ?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Advocated by people like Alberto Savoia in Pretotyping and Eric Ries in The Lean Startup , these are good methods to test if something is valuable fast, and it is a product management skill you should learn. Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Let me give you an example from my days at Citrix.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For lean and agile thinking to work we need to have a humble mindset… we work in software, which is complex and unpredictable, and it requires the organization from the top down to embrace a position of humility.”. For example, a portfolio level objective might be to become the dominant platform for car dealer inventory management by Q4 2016.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 30, 2020

Bernard got his first job as a product management lead at Grab in July 2016 and, despite the similarities with his previous career, he admits he had little in the way of the coaching skills or experience needed. “Essentially I had been working with a product, but it was an investment product. ” Building Product at Pace.

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The following is based on notes taken from Sean Ellis’ talk at StartCon 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Sustainable growth relies on consistency, rhythm and following a proven system. Problem : Activation friction with new users – 90% of registrants never downloaded the software. Test and look for impact on your metrics.

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