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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Ways to improve the user experience was as big a theme in 2016 as ever and in The Experience is the Product , another talk from the San Francisco conference, Peter Merholz spoke about the need to focus on the user experience. But nothing beats partnership for synergy and unexpected brillianceā€.

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User friction can sink your app. Hereā€™s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

ā€œUser frictionā€ is an industry term that refers to various kinds of pain points that arise when a user engages with a web app, mobile app, or some other kind of digital product. Bad user experience (UX) design is a big source of user friction, but itā€™s not the whole story. Leverage gamification principles.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 ā€“ a16zā€™s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Most podcast producers are creating entertainment-focused, general interest content that appeals to a wide audience, likely because of their monetization model, which is primarily ad-supported.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 ā€“ a16zā€™s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Most podcast producers are creating entertainment-focused, general interest content that appeals to a wide audience, likely because of their monetization model, which is primarily ad-supported.