Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

How product managers can understand their customers better than anyone else. If you have listened to me before, there is a good chance you’ve heard me say we need to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not our solution. Getting enamored with our solution can distract us from the customer experience.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As an example, our problem statement could be: Customers encounter a series of friction points when embarking on a shopping journey in a large supermarket. The problems to solve: customer impact and business impact.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. But over time, customer needs evolved. I will discuss why in just a second.

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

When we interview customers , our goal is to learn as much as we can about their context. This will help us understand their specific needs, pain points, and desires (otherwise known as opportunities) which will inform our product decisions. ‘Atypical’ is not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to customer stories.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Pain points : If youre going to redo the functional logic of your product, you should definitely add customer pain points. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company. Instead of abiding by the management team’s agenda, we should have convinced them of building a minimum viable product (MVP) that resolved the highest pain points for our customers.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. Below the solution space are assumption tests. This is how we’ll evaluate which solutions will help us best create customer value in a way that drives business value. But this isn’t Agile.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim might set the following directional outcome: increase the average audience size for our podcast customers. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

What assumptions should they test? It starts with focusing on the customer. The team isn’t likely to reconcile their personal preferences about what they should build, but they can find alignment by developing a shared understanding of what their customers need and want. They have several key decisions they need to make.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. My advice in this article may not stand the test of time. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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Product Talk

MAY 5, 2021

They need to develop a shared understanding of who their customer is; what needs, pain points, and desires (collectively called “ opportunities ”) they have; and the context in which those opportunities occur. They interview customers together. And they iteratively test and develop those solutions together.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

He also works with design and leadership on the medium-term strategic space, helping decide and define future initiatives that will unlock value for their customers and prospects. This can create a false sense of familiarity, so Steve says they need to be intentional to avoid making assumptions about their users. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The problem with asking people to explain the processes and pain points they have within the B2B space is that, at its most basic, you’re asking someone how they do their job and people are a little too used to talking about this to think about it creatively without prompting. Make discovery memorable. Promote Higher Order Thinking.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Simplify security • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer discovery, and set up a repeatable sales motion on the way to their first $1M ARR.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s a framework that’s been well tested and works in a lot of different contexts. Design with your customers, design with your constituents, not for them. Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? Let’s reset your concept of this word.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Customer-facing APIs are products. When engineers encounter friction when learning a new API, it reduces their likelihood of having success with your product. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible. The easiest way to fix this is to test your documentation with real customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 6, 2021

He is Howard Tiersky, author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance. He founded FROM, a digital transformation agency, which has won over 100 awards for user experience design, including for their work redesigning the Avis app which is now ranked by J.D.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 21, 2023

He has established a system allowing the team to focus on understanding customer needs more deeply, creating Outcomes through hypothesis-based testing, and measuring progress through Velocity, Win Rate and impact towards their North Star Metric. In a minute, he will tell us how to do the same thing. We did generative research.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions. Assumption testing is evaluative. If we interview well, we’ll hear about a myriad of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—collectively called opportunities. Assumption testing is evaluative.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s no secret that when it comes to support, customer expectations are higher than ever before – but how are support leaders and teams adapting to these increased demands? Nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Understand how customer expectations are changing.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

According to Jeff Gothelf , Lean Startup emphasizes making assumptions about your target market, testing them with rapid prototypes, and iterating based on customer feedback. However, the pressure to jump from customer research straight into a solution can lead you down the wrong path. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. You can learn more about assumption tests here.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Both my co-founder Brian and I experienced pain points when we were buying engagement rings. We’re building a new digital product that’s the first of its kind for custom jewelry design online.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

They make decisions that work for the business, that are usable and desirable by the customer, and that are feasible to build in the designated time. They interview customers together. And they iteratively test and develop those solutions together. Instead, we might disagree on what we think the customer wants or needs.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” It keeps us focused and ensures that we create value for the business while meeting customer needs.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. It felt like 10+ years of experience, from customer development to Jobs Theory all in one actionable package.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

If I had to make a blanket statement, it’s that most founders and product managers don’t listen enough to customers or iterate enough based on customer feedback. However, I don’t necessarily agree with the idea that its user feedback “versus” the founder’s vision.

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