The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . And per customer?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. As Marc Wendell described in a Product Mentor video, the foundation of success in both product management and user experience (UX) is solving a problem for a specific user. A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. Background.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Talking to users is easy. The post User Research Interviews – Robert Chokr on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. The post User Research Interviews – Robert Chokr on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Talking to users is easy.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s been drilled into our heads time and time again – as product people, we know that we are not the customer. What follows is that we need to get to know our customers, to figure out what their problems are, how they perceive & prioritise them, and how they react to the solutions we [.].

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. In this episode, Chip Chonym explains why market research matters throughout the innovation process, discussing both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Which change in users’ behaviour do we want to drive? Then we think about potential solutions or features. Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. Indeed the relevant decision-makers, influencers and domain experts should be involved, informed and consulted, as appropriate.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Has clicking that icon met the user intent of the feature?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 8, 2024

Mastering the art of customer conversations – for product managers As a product person, you know or at least have heard how important it is to talk with customers. Also, if you are not a complete newb, you also know you can’t simply ask the customer what they want. 6:09] How do we ask customers the right questions?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc.

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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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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. Why bring this up?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Are you seeking a trusted app development company for a long-term partnership? Here we provide a brief overview of the best app developers for startups for 2021. From day one, most startups are concerned with the question “How to find the best technology partner.” You’re in the right place!

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

The smartphone app has become the front line of financial competition. Any banking app that feels generic, uninspired or offers little real value is already lagging behind. Because todays users wont waittheres always a smarter, faster and more useful app waiting to take itsplace. Google left Yahoo behind in searches.

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Product Talk

APRIL 11, 2018

I get asked all the time, “How much time should we spend in discovery ?”. You should be discovering and delivering all the time. If you spend two weeks building feature A and then you decide as a team to build feature B instead, you might argue that you wasted your time building feature A. Most of the time, it’s not.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

How can product trios work with user researchers? If your company is committed to user research and you have the luxury of having a user researcher embedded on each of your teams, you probably want to include them in most of your discovery decisions. They interview customers together.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Customers who actively connect with your brand are more likely to stay loyal, spend more, and become advocates. That’s where customer engagement software comes in. The right platform will equip you with the tools to interact effectively, gather valuable feedback, and build lasting customer relationships.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve heard it again and again – these are odd times; we’re not working remotely, we’re working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. Customer Discovery. Remote Working. Adapting to change.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

User experience analytics is one of the secret ingredients for boosting SaaS growth. This ensures your product remains enjoyable for users, boosting retention and loyalty. We will also go over free and paid product analytics tools that can help facilitate the process. across the customer journey.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

We chatted about the company’s evolution from RealtimeBoard, a tool beloved by the UX community, to Miro – a rapidly growing SaaS innovator that boasts Dell, Netflix, Ikea, and Spotify amongst their steadily growing roster of clients. Short on time? Miro has made the move from product to platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2021

The channels we use to communicate have shifted dramatically, and customer expectations for fast, personalized support are higher than ever. As a result, companies need to understand their customers and deliver to their high standards if they want to stay competitive. Messaging is rapidly becoming a key channel for customer support.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2021

Believing that customers who try it will see better results. And you need to tell everyone, all the time. But as you grow and mature, and as your target customers grow from early adopters to more discerning buyers, it’s simply not enough for you to say it. Commissioning Forrester Consulting. Enter Forrester.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 8, 2024

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. What made that buying experience so enjoyable? Business practices, new and old, are always a big part of the discussion when you’re demonstrating your solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And further along the line, customer support started being treated as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line impact of creating great customer experiences. In fact, he says the customer experience has never mattered more.

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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.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 22, 2024

Two hours is not a big time commitment, and it helps you get a group of stakeholders all together to solve a problem. Get to Know Your User (30 minutes) First things first – who are you solving for? This step is all about understanding who your user is. Example: Imagine you’re designing a new dashboard for a fintech app.

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