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461: Customer use cases to guide product design – with Lilac Muller, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

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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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

Fortunately, I was paired with a mentor, Vikas Batra, who has several years of product management experience in enterprise telecommunications hardware. Along the way, I have discovered several other key insights: Product strategy is ultimately a subset of business strategy. They may have additional color and suggestions.

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

In the 1920s and 1930s, there was no absence of problems in telecommunications. When you have no absence of customer or user problems, if you’re reasonably intelligent, you can usually come up with the inventions and the necessary breakthrough new products. They had to invent all those things.

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Who to Satisfy? Differentiate Buyers, Users, and Customers for Effective Product Decisions

Johanna Rothman

In product development, we often use the words, “user” and “customer” interchangeably. I wonder if it’s time to stop talking about “customers” altogether. Users use the product. When the User is also the Buyer, as in a mass-market product, they might ask you for features.

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How to Get Started with Customer Segmentation Analytics + Best Tools

Userpilot

Interested in customer segmentation analytics but don’t know where to start? We also cover: The benefits of customer segmentation analysis. TL;DR Customer segmentation divides clients into groups with shared attributes for in-depth analysis and personalized experiences. Examples from different industries. The purpose?

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Rune Madsen on the intersection of user experience and design systems

Intercom, Inc.

In his 2017 keynote, “The User Experience of Design Systems” , designer, artist and educator Rune Madsen dissects not just the oft-celebrated rewards of systems, but also the inherent risks that broad ones bring to the table. The user experience of design systems. Can you walk us through that?

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Tech philosopher Alex Wolf on designing harmonious technology

Intercom, Inc.

Both her book Resonate: For Anyone Who Wants to Build an Audience and her documentary short Attention for Sale offer insights into how we are changed by ubiquitous technology, both individually and collectively – social media has transformed how we engage with one another, and that widespread, constant engagement is harming our focus.