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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

With educational background in Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from Oxford and UCL, and early career as UX design lead for Intel, Yahoo!, Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Its a leap of faith in their engineering counterpartsdelegating ownership of a UX decision. If the UXs long-term and holistic considerations are included in the final solution, then its cooperation.

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Product Discovery Tips

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. The UX designer, developer, tester should work on the development team.

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Moving at the Speed of Demand

Product Management Unpacked

MAY 26, 2020

Unlike traditional product managers, Claire is less involved with the technical aspects of product management. Instead, she ensures that other product managers and UX designers are all working towards the same business objectives. She says, “I’m really more of the businessperson within the department.”. For aspiring product managers.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Top 11 Female Product Management Influencers to watch in 2022

Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. Andrea Saez – Writer, Speaker, Advisor | Sr PMM @ Product School. Follow her for a good dose of career advice combined with a neverending supply of positive energy. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management.

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What augmented analytics mean to UX/UI design

Imaginary Cloud - Design

JANUARY 30, 2020

However, it's essential that businesses don't underestimate those tools' UX design. UX and UI designers too can’t continue to ignore the augmented analytics paradigm. . " So, let’s now dive into how conversational interactions impact UX, what challenges and possibilities they bring and how to properly design them.

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Product Analyst: Responsibilities, Skills, and Requirements

Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

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“We’ll Need More UX Writers in Tech” – Interview with Yuval Keshtcher

UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

So I ended up a UX designer, but my heart started to beat faster and louder when I first woke up to the truth: Writing makes up a determinative part of UX. As I always try to dive ever deeper into the field of UX writing, I also try to look for inspiration and information from key persons. How would you define UX writing?

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Product Manager CV Template – How to Create The Perfect PM resume? [+ tips from experts]

Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. You should customize the content of your resume to match the requirements of each position you apply for. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It makes sense then that the most crucial skills for Product Managers are intangible people skills – otherwise known as soft skills, but we’ll discuss that later – which tend to be more transferable from position to position and industry to industry. Technical Skills for Product Management.

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Best New User Onboarding Tools for SaaS in 2021

Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." Ok, now here's how much code you need to build this: <html> <head> <title>HTML tooltip</title> </head> <style> arrowpopup { position: relative; display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; }.arrowpopup.tooltiptext

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5 Best Design and Innovation Consulting Firms to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. Considering that none of the established innovation consulting companies are cheap, you want to make sure your return on the investment is positive. . UX studio .

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Tips for achieving AI-led digital transformation: What eight industry leaders want you to know

Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Larry advises companies not to deploy GenAI directly to customers without human oversight the potential consequences are too high, particularly for highly regulated industries like financial services, life sciences, and healthcare. Sarah advises companies to ensure that AI is fully embedded into their digital products from the concept phase.

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What are Pendo Product Tours Like?

Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Userpilot's product tours are better than Pendo's in terms of UX, ease of use, and value for money. They're actually quite linear, which is the sort of product tour that we've advised readers of this blog to stay away from numerous times in the past. What UX patterns do Pendo's Guides include?

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3 Feature Prioritization Methods With Your Users In Mind

UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article deliberately didn’t try to become an ultimate list of feature prioritization methods ( others have done a pretty good job) but it selects three great examples UX Studio uses effectively. As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work. The Kano Model.

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UX, CX and Women in Tech – With Marília Moita | ? Design Aloud

UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. And so it, it wasn’t the traditional design sense that you have right now, which is UX UI courses, but a bit more in-depth understanding of users, if I’m not wrong, because we had this sort of courses in India, back, back in India as well.

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Product Tours In 2021: The Ultimate Guide

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Great product tours have a positive effect on just about every important SaaS metric that you can possibly imagine. Having analyzed product walkthroughs from hundreds of SaaS companies, here are the most common UX elements that we've encountered.

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In Scope for My Role?

Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action. UNFILLED PRODUCT POSITIONS There are thousands of talented product folks between gigs, looking for their next adventure. Easy to address, or massive potential technical debt?”

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. It makes sense then that the most crucial skills for Product Managers are intangible people skills – otherwise known as soft skills, but we’ll discuss that later – which tend to be more transferable from position to position and industry to industry. Technical Skills for Product Management.

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Interactive Walkthroughs in 2021: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you! Get a demo today! Checklists.

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Customer Success Platform- An In-Depth Comparison of The Best Tools To Use In 2022

Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 If funky UX is a priority for you, you’ll love Drip. It may have a steep learning curve and a clunky UX, but Customer.io Few customer success managers are also developers. Basic analytics are a must.

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How Today’s Top SaaS Companies Build an Ecosystem Moat by Austin Yang, Product Drive 2022

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The product allows its users to create quality visuals like banners or background graphics without technical skills, and this is possible thanks to templates. Apart from implementation, they advise them on how to operate their business or customize the product through bespoke integrations. The Canva ecosystem is built around templates.

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The 6 Best SaaS Marketing Agencies in 2021

Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Classically, SEO is broken down into the following sub-areas: Technical SEO: includes ensuring pages are indexed, creating site maps, Knowledge Graph optimization and improving site speed.

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The Best Onboarding Software for SaaS Companies in 2022

Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s also advisable to ensure they contain a CTA and a X button, so that the user has the choice to either engage with the value the modal is offering, or go back to what they were doing previously. You don’t want to find yourself in a position of having to rely on sending your customers emails.

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Product Managing the Cloud with Hemanth Kempanna

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

For product management and UI/UX related skills, I have personally found LinkedIn Learning and Udemy to be helpful. While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. Interview preparation.

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Voice of the Customer (VoC): Beginners Guide on How to Collect Data Plus Best Practices

Userpilot

MAY 1, 2021

They are the most time-consuming VoC data collection technic so before you begin, define which customers you should be interviewing and why. Online surveys are best for taking the pulse of your audience on a regular basis, but I wouldn’t advise you to use them more than once per year. Both negative and positive.

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The Ultimate Guide To Product Onboarding For SaaS

Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

This is often the case if a given product requires tons of integrations before a customer can get value out of it, or if installation is highly technical and requires advanced coding knowledge. Put yourself in the position of someone receiving a product tour like this. If this is you, we suggest reading this post on SaaS sign-up flows.

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UX Moments: You’re either in or you’re out. Right now.

UX Planet

JUNE 23, 2025

How to become a UX Designer in a world where everything changes so fast? Ocean’s Eleven (2001) The UX profession looks glamorous from the outside: you’re the creator of products used by millions of people worldwide, creative processes, beautiful prototypes, the latest MacBook Pro, and a modern office. and description.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. These (of course) don’t exist yet, since we’re still concept-testing problem statements and feature/function and technical requirements. UX testing” or “Conceptual workflow” ( NON-REVENUE ).

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Tech costs.

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7 Tips for Liberating Actionable Insights

Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. I truly want all UX Researchers to ask and understand the pressures your key stakeholders are facing. Select the right UX KPIs & connect them to organizational KPIs. Insights : “Tell me something I don’t know.”

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These 5 Coding Bootcamps Are Worth Considering

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Focus Areas: Software Engineering, Data science, UX/UI Design and Cybersecurity. Focus Areas: Web Development, UX/UI Design, and Data Analytics Best For: Students looking for a bit more personalization in their education as students have the option to shape their coursework around personal goals. Best For: Scholarship seekers.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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42 Rules of Product Management

Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. The positioning statement is what you say if someone with a minimal understanding of your industry asks what your product is. There’s some great advice on product positioning from Fritz Mueller from i365. Product Strategy.

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Bridging the Gap: From Human-Centered AI Buzzwords to Real-World Practice

UX Planet

MAY 15, 2025

Thats what led me to create the Human-Centered AI Product Framework a practical methodology for designing AI products that are not only technically sound, but intuitively useful and meaningfully human. They treat UX as the final coat ofpaint. True UX for AI isnt just aesthetics: Its interpretability, trust, context, control.

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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

When a collaboration is not a collaboration

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Product Discovery Tips

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Moving at the Speed of Demand

The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

Top 11 Female Product Management Influencers to watch in 2022

What augmented analytics mean to UX/UI design

Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

Product Analyst: Responsibilities, Skills, and Requirements

“We’ll Need More UX Writers in Tech” – Interview with Yuval Keshtcher

Product Manager CV Template – How to Create The Perfect PM resume? [+ tips from experts]

What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

Best New User Onboarding Tools for SaaS in 2021

5 Best Design and Innovation Consulting Firms to Work With in 2021

Tips for achieving AI-led digital transformation: What eight industry leaders want you to know

What are Pendo Product Tours Like?

3 Feature Prioritization Methods With Your Users In Mind

UX, CX and Women in Tech – With Marília Moita | ? Design Aloud

Product Tours In 2021: The Ultimate Guide

In Scope for My Role?

What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

Interactive Walkthroughs in 2021: The Ultimate Guide for SaaS

Customer Success Platform- An In-Depth Comparison of The Best Tools To Use In 2022

How Today’s Top SaaS Companies Build an Ecosystem Moat by Austin Yang, Product Drive 2022

The 6 Best SaaS Marketing Agencies in 2021

The Best Onboarding Software for SaaS Companies in 2022

Product Managing the Cloud with Hemanth Kempanna

Voice of the Customer (VoC): Beginners Guide on How to Collect Data Plus Best Practices

The Ultimate Guide To Product Onboarding For SaaS

UX Moments: You’re either in or you’re out. Right now.

I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

7 Tips for Liberating Actionable Insights

These 5 Coding Bootcamps Are Worth Considering

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

42 Rules of Product Management

Bridging the Gap: From Human-Centered AI Buzzwords to Real-World Practice

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