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

freshtrax

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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How Delta Testing Keeps the Focus on Customer Delight During Agile

Centercode

One of the greatest traits of agile development is that it allows teams to respond to customer desires quickly. Unlike the avalanche of changes you’d release every so often under Waterfall, this snowball approach of cumulative product evolution over time enables teams to act on what customers want, when they want it.

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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. But if there are still untapped ideas, persevere and try them first.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

It also makes them feel like their input and feedback are more valued while expediting the resolution of time-sensitive issues, such as product launches. And crowdsource ideas for future activities and let the team vote for their top picks via a poll to ensure that as many people as possible are excited about participating.

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

for announcements, teams, projects, culture and, of course, #pm-fun. Our Customer Experience team sends every tweet to @SlackHQ into a channel to review and discuss (we have #love-tweets and #beef-tweets). As I heard one of our customers say during user research: “Slack is a more human way of communicating.”

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”. It will win with the customer by doing a series of small bets that give it insight on how to build that long-term customer relationship.”. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn

Lenny Rachitsky

They launched the company back in 2019, while still students at the University of Pennsylvania, and today have scaled the app to millions of users and nearly 20,000 schools. In the span of just a few days, you’ve lost 60% of your creators, and for those final four users, the product is a shell of what it was just a few days before.