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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

I ran into documentation that was incorrect. Do they pair program with their customers to understand where there are gaps in their documentation or their endpoint coverage? So I started by searching for a Teachable API and found some documentation. Because they had a robust API that was well documented. Why Airtable?

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Product Roadmapping Once product positioning is established, product managers move into the more action-oriented activity of roadmapping. This planning phase requires careful consideration of multiple contextual factors that significantly impact how roadmaps should be developed and managed.

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

The AI tool supports this process by: Providing prompting questions to spark discussion Suggesting potential angles teams might have missed Organizing ideas into structured formats Documenting key insights for later reference During the workshop, my team worked on the question, How do I use the space I have in my yard to create a garden?

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Tips on Internal Product Communication

The Product Guy

– and, although we wish it were true, one message or document doesn’t work for all groups. Product Managers must be able to communicate to a variety of people across different departments – stakeholders, developers, designers, marketing, leadership, etc.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

Yet most product managers still rely on long documents, jargon-filled briefs, and clunky slide decks that dont land with the people who matter. What: Slack offers channels, messaging, and integrations for focused team communication. 90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports.

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Common Usability Issues with Web APIs: And How Discovery Can Help

Product Talk

Inaccurate, Incomplete, or Insufficient Documentation By far the most common challenge engineers face when working with a new API is inaccurate, incomplete, or insufficient documentation. If that language is not well documented, then engineers wont know how to construct requests or interpret responses. Why does this happen?

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Emojis mean business: The characters transforming business messaging

Intercom, Inc.

And when typing a message, there is a lot more room for ambiguity and misunderstanding, even when the interlocutors know each other well. Emoji usage exploded, and companies like Apple and Google quickly jumped on the bandwagon, proposing that the Unicode Consortium encode emoji into their Unicode Standard documentation.

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