Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 17, 2019

These days, many companies offer a knowledge base for their customers to use. The self-service aspect of knowledge bases makes them natural time-savers for users and businesses alike. It should be part of a larger customer success game plan to help your users achieve their goals through expert use of your tool.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It sounds simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. – Tweet This While many product teams want to talk to customers every week, they struggle to make this a reality. You’ll hear how Orbital addresses many of their needs and helps the HiveMQ team generate a steady stream of customers to speak with every week.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

The project, intended to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs, was plagued by missed deadlines and escalating budgets. An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. Or consider a fitness goal.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 11, 2024

There are four key things that Design Thinking helps me accomplish: Getting closer to the customer Turning insights from customer research into action Driving collaboration Experimenting and iterating Design Thinking is a common framework that helps me communicate with other folks and get everybody on the same page. [5:09]

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UX Planet

JANUARY 1, 2025

Measuring design outcomes is a vital exercise that every product team should practice. Outcome Level Measures the impact on the customer and business outcome. Outcome Level Measures the impact on the customer and business outcome. User experience: Measure how UX research impacts the user experience.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve all seen it: Disgruntled customers taking to the app stores to gripe about something that has literally nothing to do with the mobile app experience. Unfortunately, app store reviews are often the only easily-accessible place (aside from social media) for customers to air their grievances. What kind of feedback do I want?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 29, 2019

But what happens when your product is direct to consumers, and there are an awful lot of them? My career has been focused in media: I’ve worked at news organizations that have had over 20 million users a month (and some with more than 20 million users a day!). How do you write personas to match that many users?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ And web notifications also pop up whenever a customer visits your website. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The global pandemic “has changed consumer behavior on mobile forever,” according to App Annie. Here are some examples of apps in the lifestyle category (specifically dating apps and fitness/wellness apps) that have quickly adapted to changing consumer behaviors and successfully navigated these uncertain waters well.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Moving from product concepts to execution requires the steady guidance of a product manager to listen and understand the needs and wants of the organization, the teams involved, and the users for whom the product is being built. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2023

Understanding user needs and pain points is essential for building successful products and services, but that doesn’t mean we need to get stuck going down a multi-month research hole in order to be “ready” to collaborate, innovate, or prototype. Market insights: What’s happening today with the market? Not sure where to look?

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Product Talk

MARCH 30, 2016

She said, “Fit is my number one factor.” It’s hard to find a pair of jeans that fit well. I laughed and asked, “How did you know if they fit?” She thinks she buys a pair of jeans based on fit, but brand loyalty and price (or getting a good deal) were more important when it came time to make a purchase.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. They might even have regular steps in their processes that remind them to put their users’ needs first. It’s more about looking for new ways to collect insights from users, uncover underlying assumptions, and explore the opportunity space.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a fellow Product Talk coach, Hope Gurion uses opportunity solution trees with customers on a regular basis. How do you represent different customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? It’s easy to get overwhelmed when interviewing customer after customer. They have different types of customers. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That’s ok, let’s test this hypothesis. Maybe this seems irrelevant to you because you use a design system at work and rarely create patterns from scratch, or you feel that you simply don’t have the time to refine your user interface (UI) designs. UI refinement used to consume the majority of my time. Not convinced?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. We want all of our team members to have some exposure to customers.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

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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. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

In the product world, that means our customers and our end-users. Imagine a single person who represents your target user or customer. For example, with my coaching business, I don’t want to define my target customer as a head of product. Ignore everyone who doesn’t match your ideal user or customer.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s easy to answer whether you have a product/market fit: can the revenue your customers pay for your product sustain (or even grow) your business? But how can you know whether your market-fit is strong enough, or if you’re focusing on the right audience? Product Can you tell if your product is on the right track?

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

How do managers monitor and provide feedback without dictating and controlling? What if our customers aren’t on Android? What if we learn that more of our customers are on Windows (I know, funny right?) Are we trying to grow market share, engage our customers through more channels, or increase our daily active usage?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. This speaker emceed the conference and presented on Lean Product Management: How to Achieve Product-Market Fit. Target customer 2. 8:38] How do we identify our target customer?

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Product Talk

JANUARY 10, 2018

We equate prototyping with a quick way to get user feedback on our designs. But when we think of rapid prototyping and usability testing as one and the same, we tend to underestimate the power of prototyping. When we conflate rapid prototyping and usability testing, we tend to underestimate the power of prototyping.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

With technology underpinning all business processes today, with the pace at which new technologies are emerging, companies need to introduce new products and services at a faster rate than their competitors using user acceptance testing software to meet the needs of the end user. hold up little ponies. ok, back to UAT!

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At some inflection point of growth, it becomes impossible to intuitively know your customers, let alone decide which ones to focus on. We could no longer assume all our customers had uniform needs and could be reached the same way. What is customer segmentation? This final assumption in particular was no longer true or useful.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. This holistic approach not only streamlines operations but also enhances the team's ability to deliver value to customers and stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. The role is not called product administrator, feature broker, product backlog manager, user story writer, or project manager—even though that’s sometimes how it is interpreted. Word is the product.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1].

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

She regularly shares her learnings and insights on LinkedIn and recently took some time to chat with Teresa for this Product in Practice about her teams’ experience with continuous discovery. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. Stephanie: Absolutely.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. The leadership they exercise is called emergent or lateral leadership.[ The leadership they exercise has been assigned or granted by the CEO or another executive.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Streaks motivate users to keep up a consistent behavior, like logging into an app every day. Fresh Starts give users a clean slate to start over, like setting new goals at the beginning of the year. Kind of fitting here. The real impact comes not from the numbers themselves but from how you present them to the user.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital world, creating a product that not only functions well but also delights its users is a significant challenge. Achieving this requires a deep understanding of user experiences, motivations, and emotions. Core Methods of Qualitative User Research 1.1

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In her role as Chief Product Officer, Lily looks after Product, Design, Research, and Data within the business. Lily says her team’s purpose is to provide both business and customer value with a strong focus on growth. “We Withholding feedback blocks a learning opportunity” and “Relax! We all learned a lot,” says Lily.

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