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

UX Planet

Poor financial UX might be whats holding your teamback. UX isnt just a detailits a business-critical factor that directly impacts your bottomline. The approach to UX becomes reactive rather than proactive. Companies that are leaders of CX achieved more than double the revenue growth of CX laggards between 2016 and2021.

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Unlocking Growth Through UX Research

UX Planet

The results reveal that companies integrating UX Research into their growth strategies see significant improvements in conversions, engagement, and retention, with well-documented returns on investment. This fundamental gap in understanding is where UX Research becomes not only valuable but essential for driving authentic and lastinggrowth.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

This has been my ironclad rule since 2016, at three hypergrowth companies, while PMing multiple teams at once. ” For example, if a UX writer identifies an impending design conflict and corrals multiple product teams to reconcile it, make sure they know how much you appreciate their leadership.

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Pinterest’s Personalization Playbook

UX Planet

Rethinking Pinterests Personalization/UX Strategy [link] In todays digital landscape, personalization isnt just a featureits the foundation of user experience. Pinterests Personalization Playbook was originally published in UX Planet on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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

Product Talk

I then moved into an interaction designer role before there was a UX title. Teresa Torres: I chuckled a little bit there because I gave a conference talk in 2016 in Lisbon. I started my career as a software engineer. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. Does that work together?

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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. Step 1: Preparation Form a small working group with a senior design leader, one or two designers, and a UX researcher.

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What if you’re wrong? How to design for uncertainty

UX Planet

There’s a reason no one can consistently beat the market, why nobody saw Trump coming in 2016, and why the Amazon Fire Phone flopped despite the hype. Methodologies like The Lean Startup or Lean UX encourage a learning culture that helps us validate if we are on the right track. All of these involve one unpredictable variable: people.