Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. But at the same time, continuous discovery shouldn’t always be a solo activity. There’s a reason why Teresa often refers to the product trio : Continuous discovery is more effective when you avoid turf wars and bring in different perspectives.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. Products aren’t built by trios.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem Technologies This is the process of writing code and using tools to automate the user interface (UI) testing of front-end components of websites, desktop applications or mobile applications. But, getting it right goes beyond the coding of the tests and the tools you use.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2024

How do you create a segmentation survey? For example, age or product usage patterns. A segmentation survey is used to gather the data necessary to segment customers. A market segmentation survey is a market research tool. Usage-based segmentation segments users by the frequency and intensity of product usage.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. Usersnap 2.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In the field of UX research, Systems Thinking can bring many benefits to strategic planning, allowing for a broader and more integrated view of the user ecosystem. Feedback loops: a system’s outputs affect its inputs, creating loops. Considering the broader social, cultural, and environmental context of product use.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the UX research process? It also outlines a 9-step guide on how to conduct UX research for product managers and UX designers. TL;DR The UX research process is a sequence of steps to collect and analyze data on user interactions with the product to better understand their needs and preferences.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? While I don’t believe in forcing engineers to participate in discovery, I do think product teams should do everything in their power to encourage their engineers to do so. Good discovery is fueled by valuable insights gleaned during customer interviews.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A new product can feel the same way. There is a place between nothing and a great product that’s full of uncertainty. Now, after a decade of managing products and advising, I find it exciting. These days I look forward to starting research and discovery with nothing but a hypothesis.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Testsigma 2.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy. And it might feel a bit lonelier than when you were an active member of a product trio. You can submit your story here.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Teresa shared this goal at the beginning of 2022 when describing her plans to scale the impact of Product Talk. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

MAY 19, 2021

I am so excited to announce Continuous Discovery Habits is finally here! This book is designed to be a product trio’s guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. It’s the culmination of my work over the past eight years helping hundreds of product teams adopt successful continuous discovery habits.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking for the best ways to conduct user research and gather actionable insights? Whether you’re building a product from scratch, updating something on your platform, or just want to listen to users and create better experiences , this article provides the guide you need. We covered: The benefits of proper user research.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Product discovery is a team sport. You should therefore involve the right people in the discovery work and secure enough of their time. Your goal should be to mitigate the risk of building a product nobody wants and needs, not to figure out the product details. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. This is why Teresa talks about continuous discovery in terms of forming new habits. It’s not so much about becoming perfect at continuous discovery (because there really isn’t such a thing). Have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share with Product Talk readers?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

UX research emerges as a pivotal factor in crafting user-centered designs and strategies. User research aims to centralize the user in the design and development process, whether through interviews, usability studies, or other methods. What is UX Research in Design? Why Is UX Research Important?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2023

Looking for excellent evaluative research design examples? In this article, we explore various evaluative research methods and best data collection techniques for SaaS product leaders that will help you set up your own research projects. Fake door tests are a popular and cost-effective validation technique.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 24, 2023

A well-designed cancellation survey will help you understand the reasons for churn. This article shows you how to design a customer cancellation survey that collects actionable insights and reduces churn. TL;DR An exit or cancellation survey is a questionnaire you send to users to understand their reasons for churning.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

There are some striking similarities between playing an escape room game and running a product discovery. Let’s look at the Product Discovery first. Product Discovery Product Discovery at its core is a process to help refine ideas by deeply understanding real user problems and then landing on the best way to solve them.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Hello, Product Talk readers! It’s time for another installment of Product in Practice. In this series, we highlight the impressive work that forward-thinking product teams are doing. Find our other Product in Practice posts here. During her tenure as a data scientist, Lisa built two predictive products. Tweet This.

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UX Studio

MARCH 1, 2024

Our blog post guides you through the maze of AI research tools. We’ll uncover the hurdles of current AI-powered research tools and spotlight the most promising ones to keep an eye on. Let’s dive in and navigate the future of research together! Read on to get a sneak peek at our research team’s conclusions.

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Userpilot

JUNE 7, 2022

UX researchers have developed many user experience testing methods over the years, and more techniques are still being researched. Let’s take a look at the top usability testing methods, and let’s see how they all compare, and identify the best use case, advantages, and disadvantages of each.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three.

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TryMyUI

APRIL 8, 2022

Meeting customer expectations doesn’t happen by coincidence. It takes careful planning and execution to create a satisfactory product in the eyes of the customer. How can you ensure your product meets the customer’s needs? The answer is concept testing.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Most product teams are starting to integrate discovery practices into their product development process. Hypothesis Testing.

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Split

MARCH 14, 2024

From the initial stages of design and development to the crucial phases of testing and deployment, each step in the software development lifecycle shapes the quality and effectiveness of the final product. Within this development lifecycle, a comprehensive test environment is critical for ensuring software reliability and performance.

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Userpilot

MARCH 25, 2022

A continuous message testing process is essential for getting the most out of your product marketing efforts. The goal is to ensure that all of your target customers have a clear understanding of your product, brand, and services you offer. There are several ways of carrying out message testing. Let’s get started!

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the DevOps scenario, the QA team integrates into the software development and testing process to ensure the seamless development of infrastructure, process smoothly, and make sure all changes function as expected. Why is QA testing needed when implementing DevOps? Plan the tests?—? Design the tests?—?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

When it comes to customer experience survey best practices you have to consider the timing, placement, wording, and the right audience segments, among other things. In this article, we’ll share 15 of our survey best practices to help you factor in the aforementioned and make the most of customer feedback.

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Bryce York

JULY 18, 2022

When you’re busy, good product discovery is the first thing to fall by the wayside. You might have heard me say before that a product manager stretched too thin becomes a project manager. That’s not to say project management is any less than product management. In Discovery, we encounter many types of risks.

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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

And this is not just an empty excuse—most product people’s calendars are packed. As Teresa writes in Continuous Discovery Habits, “The hardest part about continuous interviews is finding people to talk to. One of the tactics Teresa recommends is recruiting participants while they’re using your product or service. Tweet This.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Have you ever sensed that the communication between a UX designer and a UX researcher during prototyping could be more efficient? Have you ever felt that you, as the researcher, told the designers everything in great detail, but the result was very different from what you expected? The line between their work is very thin.

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