Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Our de-facto ways of working made it difficult for us to learn from one another, especially when it came to socializing best practices for talking to our customers. We were operating in silos.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically. But this only works when it’s coupled with a depth of knowledge of the customer’s context. We so easily fall back to asking them to just deliver what we asked for.”. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur. What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? “You really need to be technical.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. It means that the product focus has shifted to prioritize mobile as the main consumer channel, with others coming secondary. Not enough time in the day. We hear ya.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Say that you are working on a new brand-new product. But this would be wrong.

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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. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. Explore the article below for more.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Problem Brief Over a span of 4 weeks, we tested Civians platform and created design solutions to improve the overall user experience of the dashboard. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives. We proposed 4 high-impact solutions through prototypes on Figma.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2025

They track 47 different key performance indicators (KPIs) in their mobile analytics platform , spend hours debating dashboard numbers, yet can’t predict which users will churn next week The problem here isn’t a lack of data. Analytics forwards starts with understanding user psychology. User journey map on Userpilot.

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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. Pain points introduce friction in user experience and reduce the comfort of interaction.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market, and includes mobile benchmarks across 10 main categories and 20 subcategories. 63% of consumers who were proactively engaged in Q1 were still seen later in the year (Q3-Q4).

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner. If you arent familiar with the technical details of REST APIs, you might want to read my Understanding Web APIs: What They Are and How They Work article before reading the rest of this article. Others assumed their users were all experienced developers.

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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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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Definitions : First let’s go through some quick definitions to make sure we’re speaking the same language.

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Userzoom

MAY 20, 2020

offers some best practice advice on how researchers who are used to in-lab, in-person UX research can transition to remote, while still remaining user-centric. Director, Research Partner, discusses the skills you need to successfully design and conduct remote research studies. 1) Don’t be too technical.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. The same tends to be true for the review meeting of a fortnightly sprint.

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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). Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Most of us have had the experience of hearing a friend or colleague vent about their manager’s lack of support, micromanagement, missing product sense, unfair feedback, or some other reltionship problem that is as common as the day is long. They review the manager’s performance. After all, the skip lead hires the manager.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as simply “VoC”), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. Definition of the Voice of the Customer (VoC). The voice of the customer includes answers to questions like: What do your customers like? Prevent Churn.

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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. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. . Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery.

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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. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The potential of quantum computing and artificial intelligence to enhance user research User research is crucial for the human-centered design of digital products and services. By deeply understanding users’ needs, desires, and contexts, companies can create meaningful solutions that address real human problems.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

Augmented reality apps may sound futuristic, but consumers and marketers are embracing the concept far more quickly than you may expect. In the next five years, around 48% are interested in employing AR and other metaverse technology to shop. 70% of consumers believe augmented reality apps can bring them benefits. Check it out.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

your users want to just tell your app what they want and have your app deliver on the request. And since switching costs are near-zero, if your app doesn’t make it easy for them to get what they want, your users will leave you for another one.

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