UX Planet

MAY 25, 2025

Instrumentation & RecruitmentSetting the Stage for Effective User Interviews Part 2 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Previously in Part 1 of The UX Research Playbook series, we explored how to set UX research up for success by crafting well-defined research goals within a structured framework.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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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?

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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. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Which change in users’ behaviour do we want to drive? Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As an example, our problem statement could be: Customers encounter a series of friction points when embarking on a shopping journey in a large supermarket.

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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. Asking the wrong users for input.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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AB Tasty

MAY 20, 2025

Every insight starts with a story, and every story deserves to be heard. But when your NPS or CSAT campaigns generate thousands of responses, how do you turn all that feedback into real action, fast? The problem collecting feedback: Too many voices, not enough time Lets face it: analyzing feedback is a nightmare.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. Free trial?

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

Steve is one of the product managers for Pendo Feedback , a product that enables other software as a service (SaaS) companies to centralize, analyze, and prioritize feedback while keeping visitors in the loop—all within their own app. At Pendo, Steve and some of his peers participate in weekly rolling research. Recruiting Interviewees.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. No ifs, no buts.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” It keeps us focused and ensures that we create value for the business while meeting customer needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company. The wondrous product was used by less than five percent of our entire user base. No one from the product team worked on a product that was used directly by end-users.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. What is the purpose of feedback repositories?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great to see all user interactions with your product as they happen? Think about all the insights you could gather to improve the user experience. Session recordings are digital recordings of user interactions with a website or app. However, session replay analytics tools don’t record users’ screens.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A high bounce rate might seem like lost interest, but what if users left because they couldnt find what they needed? Thats why you need user session analysis. Beyond the numbers: Understand why context matters Raw user behavioral data can be misleading without context. On the surface, it looks like a win.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Understand how customer expectations are changing.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. My advice in this article may not stand the test of time. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Product analytics refers to the process of gathering and analyzing data on how users interact with a product. It tracks key metrics such as feature usage , user flows, and behavior patterns to explore user preferences and pain points. Improves product-market fit through actionable insights.

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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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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Pain points : If youre going to redo the functional logic of your product, you should definitely add customer pain points. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. Well implemented, product demos help to: Improve user engagement : Today’s B2B buyers are independent—they want to research and evaluate solutions on their own terms.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Simplify security • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer discovery, and set up a repeatable sales motion on the way to their first $1M ARR.

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UX Planet

MAY 25, 2025

I mean frictionless, user-obsessed, data-driven design choices that guide your customer from just browsing to Add to Cart without ahiccup. Ever wondered why some eCommerce websites seem to effortlessly turn casual browsers into loyal customers while others struggle to keep visitors engaged?

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. But that view only reflects web users.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 7, 2019

A great onboarding experience is one that proves to new users that your product will help them do the job that they want. If getting started with your product requires new users to install software, invite colleagues or message customers, then the path to value may not seem as short or straightforward. Be aware of pain points.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. You can learn more about assumption tests here.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches. Lets dive in.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At first they led to smiles or confused giggling, but it subsequently led to insightful responses because, just like the Bowie song for me, it encouraged my interviewees to think differently. In Innovation Games, Luke Hohmann uses this within games to produce effective customer research. Make discovery memorable.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim might set the following directional outcome: increase the average audience size for our podcast customers. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Using structured product discovery questions , teams uncover insights critical for success.

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