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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I started my career as a software engineer. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s.

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Pinterest’s Personalization Playbook

UX Planet

However, to fully capitalize on this potential, Pinterest must continuously evolve its personalization strategies, addressing existing gaps and embracing cutting-edge technologies. This isnt just another recommendation algorithm; its a common vocabulary that ensures consistent personalization across the entire platform.

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Using Dopamine Design to Enrich the Digital Banking Experience

UX Planet

This is the effect of Dopamine Banking, where finance meets emotions and entertainment, and every tap of your smartphone is engineered to delight and reward. To address this gap, Fintech companies and neobanks have transformed the financial services landscape by launching apps that break away from traditional banking approaches.

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Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)

Lenny Rachitsky

Sonos was initially rejected for “not being ‘entertainment’ enough,” Azure was called “dumb,” and the BlackBerry founders thought the name was “crazy.” This isn’t intuition—it’s based on extensive linguistic research across cultures.

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A day in the Life of Jamie Parkins, Senior Product Manager at JustGiving

Mind the Product

Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. Jamie was brought into the company to improve the usability of its charity account and to establish features that would drive more charities to use the platform.

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Why This Opportunity Solution Tree is Changing the Way Product Teams Work

Product Talk

Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions. Good product discovery requires discovering opportunities as well as discovering solutions. This helped as most teams can articulate how to connect the dots between opportunities and solutions. – Tweet This.

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From Niche to Success: How To Make Vertical SaaS a Worthwhile Startup Investment

The Product Coalition

It’s difficult to find a SaaS company that isn’t already in the niche you wish to enter! The solution? Vertical SaaS! Vertical SaaS has had a tremendous run during the last decade. Why is Vertical SaaS on the rise? Spotify is an example of regular SaaS ; you pay to conveniently locate and stream music.