Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Most product teams are starting to integrate discovery practices into their product development process. Click here.).

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits. If you’ve been at your company for a while, you might get inspired after reading a book or attending a conference. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 26, 2023

Well, it is a fact that it would be hard to find a more misused UX research method than surveys. On the one hand, due to their low cost and time requirements, we often see that surveys are the go to research method for many product teams. Lastly, we will show you some inspiring use cases of UX surveys.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Researchers often have concerns about what will happen when “other people” go out and do work with users. But the demand for research far outweighs the supply of researchers, and everyone wins when more people are enabled to do research themselves. Planning Research. What method of research should I use?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas. Testing business ideas. Testing Business Ideas, by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder: US , UK , DE.

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Mind the Product

MAY 3, 2019

“Do you like the conference so far?” It is tempting to ask customers what they want, but you won’t get a good answer. We may say “there is no such thing as a dumb question,” but in research, this isn’t true. For a researcher, this is the first question that should be asked. What are the customers key “jobs to be done”?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Metts & Andy Welfle Userpilot can help you deliver better product experiences at every stage of the user journey. The book covers a wide range of topics, from user research and interaction design to information architecture and usability testing, making it perfect for absolute beginners with no design background.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? It’s almost done.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

TL;DR UX design aims to create meaningful, relevant experiences for users. Now, there are some essential steps you need to follow in order to start a UI/UX design career: Learning the design principles for both UI and UX includes mastering user personas, wireframing, prototyping, color theory, typography, and layouts.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests. So what did we learn?

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Usersnap

MARCH 16, 2020

Beta testing and User acceptance testing (UAT) are two of the most common types of tests to validate your development before launching your SaaS product or website. “Do Beta Testing vs. User Acceptance Testing: What’s The Difference? Source: 5 types of User Acceptance Tests.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Kim Goodwin’s talk: How can we Build Human-Centred Products.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2022

Products succeed in the marketplace because they solve at least one problem well enough that a significant number of people decide to pay for it. They make their users’ lives better in some way and they do it better than anyone else. Growing a successful product that continually evolves to meet changing user needs isn’t easy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. – to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that’s going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice. Customer Discovery. Remote Working.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 26, 2023

Well, it is a fact that it would be hard to find a more misused UX research method than surveys. On the one hand, due to their low cost and time requirements, we often see that surveys are the go to research method for many product teams. Lastly, we will show you some inspiring use cases of UX surveys.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And yet this is exactly what you should do when you talk to investors, partners, customers, and potential employees. Having a pithy story about how you were a Shopify seller, and that’s how you got to building any commerce product, is incredibly helpful. A few years back, a big group of Nordic founders came by Silicon Valley.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Qualitative research methods—such as interviews and observation—reveal what you don’t know. Quantitative research methods—such as surveys and experiments—reveal how many. Product and marketing teams seem to love surveys. Surveys grab a bunch of data quickly. Defines your product features).

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Userzoom

MAY 28, 2020

User research is a vital part of product design, but who is best to conduct this research and testing? Or should it be in-house researchers and designers who may be biased towards your own solutions, but can champion the users’ voices day-in day-out? When is outsourcing research a viable option?

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The spread of talent within the Customer Validation industry makes for brilliant conversations. These gatherings are rare, but each one offers incredible insights into both the state of Beta Testing and the professionals leading the charge. That’s in part why the Centercode User Group is one of our favorite events of the year.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today's PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Customer journey optimization has emerged as a strategic imperative for companies seeking to boost customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. Register here for FREE!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. February Product Conferences. Product World. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance. Table of contents.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 26, 2019

Photo by Hans Vivek on Unsplash The Mom Test by is one of the best books I have read about customer interviews. If you are a Product Manager or a UX designer or researcher, and you haven’t read it….please In this simple sentence, Rob has cleanly stated the mindset you need to go into a customer interview with.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I love working as a discovery coach. I coach each team—a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead—for three months, working with them virtually week over week. During that time, we focus on developing their research skills (e.g. During that time, we focus on developing their research skills (e.g.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 17, 2017

If not you could be missing out on millions of people all over the world who would be loyal customers, employees, and social media followers. Industry leaders learned that accessibility testing is an innovation driver for solutions to unanticipated problems Click To Tweet. How to run an accessibility test in UserZoom.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Product management is about solving problems. How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Agile methodology has matured a lot in the technology development phase?—?when

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Centercode

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Recently, I attended the 2018 Customer Validation Conference in southern California, where product testing experts from B2B and B2C companies (including Autodesk, Tableau, Test Fairy, FitBit, and GoPro) shared tips and lessons learned from the forefront of product development and testing.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here is a short list of the leading roles: 1) UX Designer : The main task is to create interfaces that provide users a great experience interacting with the product (app, website). They are responsible for designing user interfaces, conducting research, developing user prototypes, and testing design iterations.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. We’ve written a lot—and I mean A LOT—of content focused around mobile product management. What Is Mobile Product Management?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? Here, I’ll explain how applying the hierarchy of value certainty, shown below, can help you to answer these questions and make your product profitable. In fact, some methods are pretty poor.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

Software project managers deal with long product development cycles and keep changing priorities that disrupt the custom software development process. As a result, a finished software product doesn’t meet customers’ requirements and expectations. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2 percent for a corporation.

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