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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

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You created your product to help customers solve a problem and align with your organization’s product vision. Your understanding of the problem may have evolved based on observing customers using your product. It should go without saying that you want to get customer feedback. What is crowdsourcing?

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Crowdsourced Testing vs. Beta Testing: What’s the Difference?

Centercode

Those aspects show the difference between crowdsourced testing and beta testing. The conditions surrounding these two test types are very similar. Crowdsourced testing, like beta testing, gives testers real products to use in the real world before release. What are the goals of your feedback?

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Japan vs. US: Cross-Cultural Differences in User Research

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Any global company should know the importance of localization – to be mindful of the target culture and adjust their services or products accordingly. User research is not an exception, and it is crucial to devise appropriate methodologies and documents that go beyond direct translation. Scripting the interview.

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AI’s Impact on Design: Insights from Goodpatch CEO Naofumi Tsuchiya

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One area where the impact of AI technology is noticeable is in what we call “crowdsourcing businesses.” According to some institutional investors I know, sales in some categories of major crowdsourcing services, such as illustration, have significantly declined. To be successful, you need to act as though the user’s pain is your pain.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

Sally spent 36 years with The Dow Chemical Company and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. When a company achieves a sustained and quantifiable innovation success, PDMA will give them an award if the company will present their lessons learned at the annual conference. OCI was created as a learning vehicle for PDMA.

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Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Pivoting, resilience, avoiding tar pit ideas, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)

Lenny Rachitsky

Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges. However, despite the positive feedback and validation, they can become difficult to pivot away from once their limitations become apparent.

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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World

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Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How you involve real users in beta testing? In our interview with Adam Satterfield , director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, we dive deeper into these questions and the importance of test strategy on the whole.