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

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Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Ask Teresa: For Customer Interviews, Who Counts as a Customer?

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Whenever I introduce the topic of customer interviews (the foundational element of continuous discovery ), I get a lot of questions about who counts as a customer. Tweet This Ask Teresa: Who counts as a customer? Customers can vary depending on your company and product. Tweet This Let’s look at a few common scenarios.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

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I made sure to think about both the end customer experience and the tax expert experience,” says Teeba. One thing I really appreciated is the emphasis on thinking about engagement and satisfaction together as there is no point in increasing engagement without increasing or at least maintaining satisfaction at a certain level.”

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The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned from a Single Customer Interview

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When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

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Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. Tweet This The Challenge: Converting Trial Users to a Paid Version One use case for ThoughtFlow , a mind mapping integration, emerged based on a user’s pain point. You can submit yours here.

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Ask Teresa: What Do You Do with Atypical Customer Stories?

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When we interview customers , our goal is to learn as much as we can about their context. This will help us understand their specific needs, pain points, and desires (otherwise known as opportunities) which will inform our product decisions. ‘Atypical’ is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to customer stories.

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Don’t Use Generative AI to Replace Discovery with Real Humans

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But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.