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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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An output is what we see and experience (the features and products we “touch”). Bugs can be valued in terms of quality outcomes like reducing support needs or improving user satisfaction. Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

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. Products fall short when they include and/or over-prioritize extraneous features that don’t solve that user’s problem. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

Not having enough time is one of the main reasons people say they can’t interview customers every week. So the idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task. The idea of trying to carve out time to recruit and schedule interviews might feel like an impossible task.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Primarily there are 3 major aspects to understanding and performing well as a Product Manager, which are as listed below: Understanding the Role Definition Hard Skills required for the Role Soft Skills required for the Role. Understanding the Role Definition. Definition of PM role. Specialist PM Roles.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [6:35] What is a customer use case? 8:36] How do we create a customer use case?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

They might feel anxious about taking on tasks that are new to them and outside their regular routine at work, like speaking directly with customers. They might fear that any time not spent coding is time when their technical skills are falling behind. The overarching goal of Ramsey Solutions products?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. Its time to find out how you can improve UX without compromising the humanelement.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You spend months in discovery carefully understanding the customer, the business needs, the software requirements and how to execute it all. Once you discover what the root problem is, you lead a team to making the solution a reality. Time is the most valued asset but it is in most cases not on your side.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

She is leading product and engineering teams to develop a platform for embedded integrations that quickly connect various software applications. I was always interested in people, how they use tools, and the problems being solved by businesses. I moved away from the classroom into product technology.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. We can’t just build for the good path.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 20, 2020

Unpacking this central conundrum is at the heart of Alex Wolf’ s work – the self-described “consumer-facing anthropologist” has made a career by thinking deeply and talking widely about issues related to the pervasive role of technology in modern life. She asks what are the risks involved in “outsourcing” so many of our skills to technology.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. Setting mobile app KPIs (key performance indicators) for revenue, performance, and CX is an important first step toward accomplishing this.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. This knowledge gives teams a competitive advantage that compounds over time. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? In a well structured company with clear product definition, this may only take a couple days of training.

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UX Planet

JUNE 1, 2025

Through case studies, statistical evidence, and methodological frameworks, I aimed to establish how systematic user research can positively impact key business metrics, from acquisition to referral.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. Short on time? But there’s a better way now.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Apps are ubiquitous tools to our modern lives. Smartphone users open their favorite apps more than 15 times a month and use up to 40 apps regularly overall. Smartphone users open their favorite apps more than 15 times a month and use up to 40 apps regularly overall.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

But that’s going to take time and I want you to have it today. We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions. So I’m going to scratch the surface in this blog post.

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Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2024

Are you on the lookout for tools that can help you improve customer retention ? There are quite a few solutions around, so it might be difficult to find, especially as we’re not talking about one specific set of tools but rather a whole range of different solutions covering a range of use cases.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

No matter how good your original product is, you will likely decide to redesign it at some point in time. It recommended to focus on two important points: Purpose: Clearly state the purpose of the redesignwhy the business should invest time and money in it and what it will help the business achieve. UX audit checklist prepared by Maze.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Today we are talking about using experimenting and testing to create products customers love. We need to have a broad definition of experimentation; it’s more than controlled experiments like A/B testing. Don’t wait until you’ve built a feature to experiment. Why was that?

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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. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Good design is good business.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. Jen Murphy – Senior Product Researcher. Customer feedback is a big deal here at Intercom. In London, we focus on improving our support solutions. Then this podcast has the answers.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. This article answers that and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2021

Technology plays a critical role in providing customer support at scale. With the right automation underpinning your tech stack, your support team can be empowered to strike the right balance between personalized support and efficiency – something that’s no longer a “nice-to-have” when customer expectations are at an all-time high.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. The right data and experimentation tools.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 2, 2024

A self-service data platform is the backbone of informed decision-making and a growing SaaS business. But how do you choose the right data platform for product analytics ? Let’s go over what a data platform is, its importance, and the must-have features you should consider to choose the right platform for you.

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