Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] AI Strategy Benefits My research shows that AI can help you make better strategic decisions faster, at least for certain products. [1] 2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics.

Product Strategy

UX Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Maybe you’ve even tried some popular AI tools, like the good ol’ ChatGPT. But did you know that certain AI tools work best at specific phases of the design process? Having tested a selection of AI design tools, I’ve found that some are better suited for certain stages of the UX design process than others.

Research Software

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Product Designer resume2025 Lets face it: your resume isnt just a piece of paper (or a PDF). For product designers, this is especially critical. So, how to write a Product Designer resume that stands out? Designed user-centered interfaces based on extensive user research and testing. Pro tip: Go beyond the basics.

Research Software

UX Planet

APRIL 19, 2025

How New Heuristics Are Reshaping the Creative Process Between Humans andMachines Image generated byChatGPT When the wave of generative AI tools began flooding the market, I must confess my reaction was mixed: a sense of fascination for the possibilities and concern for the ethical challenges looming on the horizon.

Generative AI

Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 7, 2025

Watch or listen now: YouTube // Spotify // Apple Brought to you by ChatPRD —an AI copilot for PMs and their teams In this episode, I share my hands-on experience with OpenAI’s GPT-5, the company’s new frontier model. As one of the first users outside of OpenAI to test the model, I put GPT-5 head-to-head with GPT-4.1

ChatGPT

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

That’s what one PM told me after their team rolled out AI across the product workflow. That tension points to one of the most underappreciated effects of AI in product teams today. It removes much of the effort from analysis, but also removes the friction that once forced product teams to think. Their backlog was clearing.

Product Research

UX Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

Become a Product Designer in 2025 if these 6 signs resonate withyou! Imagine waking up every day excited to create products that change theworld. A career in product design offers just thata unique opportunity to bring your ideas to life while shaping the future of technology, sustainability, and user experiences.

Feedback Software

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Picture this: A room full of product leaders huddled around market data like detectives at a crime scene, learning to spot the subtle clues that spell opportunity. It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success. How can we assess the level of product sense in PMs, designers, and developers? The secret? The secret?

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 11, 2025

Vanta —Automate compliance and simplify security Wade Chambers , Chief Engineering Officer at Amplitude, shares how his team built Moda—an internal AI tool that gives employees access to enterprise data across multiple systems, enabling faster product development and decision-making while fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Feedback Software

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 1, 2025

He’s been in product for over 25 years (at Google, Palm, Flywheel, and now Uber). “Ship, ship, ship” = cut decision latency: Daily stand-ups, rapid product reviews, and a strict two-way-door mindset slash cycle time. Empathy beats ego: Users spend minutes, not their lives, inside your product.

Research Software

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 25, 2025

At OpenAI, she established marketing foundations for ChatGPT for consumers and enterprises, as well as their developer API platform. Turn awareness into “use-case epiphanies”: OpenAI didn’t need more eyeballs; it needed to teach people how ChatGPT fits their daily work.

Analytic Tools

UX Planet

JUNE 20, 2025

But anyone who’s actually built a product — especially as a designer — knows that the real work starts long before that prompt. The Same Process — Just Faster The classic design thinking loop — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — hasn’t gone anywhere. But what AI tools offer is acceleration. What could wait?

ChatGPT

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 19, 2025

Practical techniques for improving team writing and presentations with AI-powered feedback 4. Why GPTs are the perfect tool for scaling good management practices without requiring prompt engineering skills 5. How to turn your management expertise into clear evaluation rubrics that AI can consistently apply 3.

User Testing

Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

Analytic Tools

BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

Tips for Managing the Product Lifecycle (Part 1) By Jana Paulech Product lifecycle management is arguably the most underutilised tool in the product management toolkit. In part 1 we give an overview of the lifecycle and how to identify where your product is with a product value metric.

User Testing

Product Talk

AUGUST 6, 2025

Since April, the students in our Continuous Interviewing course have been getting AI-generated feedback on their practice interviews. Like all AI products, it started out pretty good (but definitely not great) and has slowly gotten better with time. Should it be product managers? Should it be engineers?

Artificial Inteligence

UX Planet

JUNE 19, 2025

How I Built a Shopify App in a Weekend — as a Designer with AI From product designer to app store publisher in 72 hours — and what that taught me about design, code, and creativity. I’ve spent nearly a decade in Product Design— designing for fintech, startups, and complex enterprise systems. AI turned my thoughts into structure.

Analytic Tools

Product Talk

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Old product backlogs can be the place where ideas go to die. But they can also be a treasure trove of feedback from your customers. Old product backlogs can be the place where ideas go to die. . Tweet This If you’re a product manager who’s coming into a new team, chances are high that you’re inheriting a backlog.

ChatGPT

Modus Create

JANUARY 9, 2025

From iPhone to AI By Patrick Sheridan Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: January 9, 2025 Last update: January 9, 2025 How lessons from the mobile boom can help navigate the new era of software development Were going to make some history together today. AI software spending is forecasted to grow to $297.9 billion by 2027.

Analytic Tools

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each week, I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: A guide to AI prototyping for product managers Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity Top angel investors in the U.S.

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 21, 2025

In this episode, he shares how he’s helping his 100-plus-person engineering team successfully adopt AI tools by creating centralized documentation, using agents to tackle technical debt, and improving hiring processes—all while maintaining high quality standards in a mature codebase. What you’ll learn: 1.

Feedback Software

UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

Power survey shows consumers are largely optimistic about AI’s benefits: 72% agree AI will deliver easy, convenient self-service but also highlight areas to improve, such as building trust and ensuring human-like empathy in AI interactions. At the same time, a J.D. Source: J.D. IDC estimates the banking industry will invest about $31.3

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 8, 2025

Constant busyness often masks deeper questions about self-worth—understanding what drives your need to be constantly productive can lead to more meaningful work. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

ChatGPT

UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

Taylor Swiftimage via Wikipedia Commons Im a big fan ofuser research. I like testing things withusers. To paraphrase Taylor Swift: me and research vibe likethat. But not everyone vibes with user research. Design without research is guessing: you have no idea what or whose problems youre trying tosolve.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 22, 2025

In this episode, Peter dives into his most valuable lessons from building and scaling some of tech’s most iconic products and companies. The 5 PM archetypes: Consumer (design-obsessed), Growth (data-driven skeptic), Business/GM (margin-focused), Platform (builds tools for others), or Research/AI (technical depth).

ChatGPT

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 19, 2025

Sander explains how prompt quality can make or break AI performance—especially when scaled across products. There are two distinct types of prompt engineering: “conversational” and “product-focused.” Simplify security Sander Schulhoff is the OG prompt engineer. Role prompting (e.g.

Engineering

People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 24, 2025

Here's a real-world example: A friend fed their schedule to ChatGPT and received a week with fewer meetings, more gym time, and something called “lunch” The result? In product development, tools like ChatPRD and platforms like Lovable , Bolt, and Bubble spit out prototypes before your coffee cools. Let’s talk.

Leadership

Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 7, 2025

Watch or listen now: YouTube // Spotify // Apple Brought to you by: Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want Notion —The best AI tools for work Hiten Shah is a serial founder who has started several analytics and security companies, including Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics.

ChatGPT

Crafty CTO

AUGUST 1, 2025

… the interesting thing to me is this breadth of research happening across science and Gemini and robotics and things like that … all that actually ends up upstreaming into the mainline models which is super exciting.” I see a lot of overlap in Han’s and Hykes’s keynotes and products.

Research Software

Crafty CTO

AUGUST 10, 2025

It’s not too hard, but after the hard mental effort of writing the post itself, I’m rarely in the mood for another 30 minutes of researching and link-crafting. Before GPT-5 and tool use, I’ve had the AI auto-generate links, but hallucination was often a serious problem. Instructions**: 1.

Research Software

Gainsight

MAY 9, 2025

And as a customer success (CS) leader, if you don’t understand the differences under the hood, then you’re leaving insights, productivity, and revenue on the table. For instance, tools like Staircase AI can surface real-time customer health insights, which could lead to surprise churn if missed. AI helps reclaim that time.

Feedback Software

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 24, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now You’re probably hearing a lot of AI jargon, and you probably sort of know what some of it means. but not really.

Artificial Inteligence

Arkenea

AUGUST 11, 2025

However, ChatGPT (including Free, Plus, Pro, and Team plans) is NOT HIPAA compliant under any circumstances. While you cannot use ChatGPT’s web interface or mobile apps with protected health information (PHI), OpenAI’s API services can achieve compliance through a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and proper configuration.

Reporting Tools

Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 5, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Longtime product operator and creator Peter Yang has been investigating, sharing, and applying AI best practices for years now, and he’s been getting this question more than any other. workers use AI daily.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 28, 2025

We then spin up an MCP that lets Goose talk to Square’s dashboard for inventory management, vibe code an email MCP that can send payment links automatically, and unpack how environment setup, debugging, and tool orchestration get handled behind the scenes. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email jordan@penname.co.

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2025

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ChatGPT

Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

Product Research