Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

Instead, run a Competitive Mapping Workshop : List 3–5 key competitors Compare what they say vs. what they actually deliver (positioning vs. reality) Spot the whitespace: what are they missing that you can own? Experiment with a minimum viable product as a next step to test and refine your solutions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 19, 2025

Copying competitors rarely works because: You don’t know if what you’re seeing is their actual experience Their tactics are specific to their customers and channels You miss the context and learning that led to their current solution Instead, use competitor analysis for inspiration and patterns, but do your own research and testing.

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UX Planet

MAY 25, 2025

If its for validation on something small and specific, opt for usability testing or A/B tests. Assign roles beyond the researchteam It goes without saying but inviting and engaging our colleagues in Tech and Business (not limited to) for all the workshops weve covered in essential.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

For example: P01: Jane — Onboarding The above signals Test Participant 1 , Interviewer Jane , on the theme of Onboarding. Use colour-coded sticky notes or digital equivalents to distinguish between observations, themes, and insights during team workshops.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Building on my previous post on Product Sense , at my Reforge workshop on Sharpening Product Sense , I revealed how top product minds transform market whispers into winning decisions. Test hypotheses, analyze results, and learn from both successes and failures. The secret? It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 10, 2025

You can also book Colin for one-day team workshops with your team. Every prototype made using them has better visual quality, is less distracting to stakeholders, and allows conversations to focus on the specific elements that are being tested. ” Here’s the result: Spending time to improve your components is worth it.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

Its about identifying and testing promising solutions that actually matter fast. Use interviews, surveys, user testing, and more. Build iteratively, test constantly, and learn rapidly. Designing the Discovery Process to Be Impact-First Discovery isnt about brainstorming 100 ideas and hoping one sticks.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

And these adjustments occurred beyond Design related situations (there were many technical/technological issues to be resolved as well), though much time had been devoted to usability testing, localization, omni-channel experiences, partnerships, content creation, onboarding experiences, gamification scenarios, and the list goes on.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If possible, test your key design solutions and, having collected feedback from users, make changes at the early stages of the project. Attention Insight Uses AI to model heatmaps and predict user behavior, allowing you to test layouts before they are launched. Optimal Workshop An AI tool for UX research.

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UX Planet

JULY 17, 2025

It’s summarising workshops, writing user stories, translating content, analysing tone of voice, creating templates, and speeding up research. Testing it. It was a space created for real, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations. And that’s exactly what made it so vital. AI isn’t coming. It’s already here. If we show up.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

As a lifecycle specialist in B2B growth, youll drive the strategies that accelerate time to value and expansion, rigorously test them, and scale what works. Experimentation expertise: comfortable designing, running, and interpreting A/B and multivariate tests.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Speakers: April Dunford – Positioning expert and author of Obviously Awesome Sean Ellis – The OG Growth Hacker, inventor of the North Star Metric, High Tempo Testing and the “Sean Ellis Test” of product/market fit. 7th November, London, UK. 7th November, London, UK.

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UX Planet

JULY 1, 2025

We visually judge aesthetics and test code for functionality, but content often lacks direct, quantifiable metrics, which makes it harder to show its value, something we need to work on. Educate stakeholders I used workshops, case studies, and real-world examples to demonstrate its impact and value at the right time.

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2024

Identifying and testing assumptions is a critical part of continuous discovery. But what happens when your assumption tests don’t go as planned? Amanda Wernicke , Craig Fogel , and Jason Ruzicka knew they needed to test assumptions with users, but found that a virtual assumption test over Zoom wasn’t working for them.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2023

Here are three common scenarios that cause many teams to fall idle, along with the workshop formats I use to get them unstuck, tap into their true potential, and unlock possibilities for the organization. To uncover this information, I recommend a Problem-framing and Idea Generation Workshop.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And finally, Tali was so convinced of the power of opportunity solution trees that she started leading workshops at product events to teach others how to use this tool. Tweet This After trying it out herself, Tali conducted a series of workshops with her dev team, explaining the basic concepts and then filling out the tree together. “It

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Here’s how they used smoke tests to explore a new opportunity. It’s because so many software projects fail to deliver expected results , that we d ecided to go with smoke tests. We ran the tests on paying customers. We used Woopra as the main analytical tool in our tests. The Approach. The Results.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One the most consistent and frequent lessons that we teach in different workshops is “test early, test often”, also known as lean methodologies. In January 2018, we moved forward to create our third full-day workshop on the much-anticipated topic of Metrics and Analytics. Slice up the Product Into Testable Chunks.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level. Designers has to work well with developers.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Running a User Story Map workshop with your team will give you a comprehensive list of features prioritized by different releases ( you want to ocus on learning quickly ), and you will have common understanding among the different people involved. Slice Out Releases. Slice the map in different releases. The first slice would be your MVP.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A great way to achieve a shared roadmap is to involve the individuals in the product roadmapping decisions, preferably in the form of a collaborative workshop—be it online or onsite. The best way to achieve this is to base the plan on a validated product strategy , a strategy whose key assumptions have been tested.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Taking a break from the always entertaining/sometimes informative podcast Jake & Jonathan (formerly known as The Product Breakfast club, which he co-hosts with Jake Knapp), AJ&Smart CEO Jonathan Courtney joined us to chat about Design Sprints, workshops, and how to get groups of people collaborating. Quote of the Episode. Talk to us.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 11, 2024

Test and refine: Put your ideas in front of customers, get feedback, and iterate. Repeat: Cycle through testing and refining many times. [14:18] Another misconception is that Design Thinking is all about sticky notes and workshops. 24:53] How do you structure a Design Thinking workshop? You need to start with the user.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For this first post, we spoke with Rebecca Klee , a UX Researcher at Optimal Workshop. Her work helps Optimal Workshop understand how to improve their existing tools and identify opportunities that they might tackle in the future. This is an example of a Pendo intercept an Optimal Workshop customer might see while using the app.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In his cross-functional role , Chris coaches individuals and teams and facilitates discovery sessions and workshops. As Chris and the product manager discussed the topic in more detail, it became clear that the team was defining experiments that tested the solution as a whole against the desired outcome. Value risk. Usability risk.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Despite discovering useful techniques and exercises and experimenting with workshop formats, templates and canvases, we weren’t finding a process that ticked all our must-haves whilst also taking into consideration the constraints on the product leader?—? After exploration, testing and iteration, we arrived at the Product Vision Sprint ?—?a

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

A Workshop Kicks Off a New Commitment to Discovery Teresa: It sounds like recently, you had a workshop that had a big impact. I initiated a workshop as a kickoff for 2024 saying, team, I see we’ve done a great job in the define and measure phase and build phase, but I feel like we’re still lacking the discovery phase.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Great resources for conducting a five-second test or a simple check of website copy, for example, are platforms like usertesting.com, usabilityhub.com or the Audience feature of surveymonkey.com. They make curating a test group easy. Ideation and Workshops. My go-to solution for remote workshops is Mural.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Third, they can be tested. Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop. Set up a collaborative workshop, be it onsite or online, and ask your Scrum Master to facilitate. This requires them to fulfil the following three criteria: First, they are sufficiently clear and understood by the development team.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 10, 2023

After testing them and understanding which brands a consumer would want to satisfy each job, we found the second most important job to be done in quick-service breakfast was owned by a competitor, and it had to do with feeling strong, competent, and capable. Then quantitatively test them. However, do test with everybody.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

They are very comfortable with alignment, systems thinking, mapping, research, lean testing, and driving things forward when 99% of it is uncertain. They are happiest when they are deep in the finer details, and understand the subtle nuances of multivariate testing. Join other passionate, product people on a Mind the Product workshop.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. So I put the book on hold and started devising a plan to test my content. Many teams hit a snag when it was time to test assumptions. They’d get bogged down for weeks trying to run a single assumption test. Continuing to Test and Iterate as I Wrote the Book.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Validating solution ideas : Using, for example, product demos , usability tests, and A/B tests. You might also decide to carry out some self-study and read articles and books on (product) leadership or attend a product leadership workshop. Whatever you do, give yourself the time you need to get ready for the career move.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 30, 2023

There are four phases: Empathizing Defining the problem Ideating Prototyping and testing [10:05] How did you use this framework in your project? We crafted a “how might we…” question for each opportunity: How might we inform and empower facilitators to facilitate a better workshop? 20:48] How did prototyping work?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Abbie and Carmel, with the help of a few others, have created a public workshop titled Product Innovation Master Class: How to Become a Serial Innovator. You may want to test the serial innovator and understand how they think to supplement the dimensions they are weaker on.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

user interviews Interviews or workshops are often the first step in speaking with users before user personas are put together based on the information obtained during those sessions. It all depends on the desired outcome of the workshop. Shouldn’t we build and test a prototype first?’?—?If Absolutely not! What about the risk?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Through his talks and interactive training workshops, Dan helps companies build great products and strong product teams. User experience (UX) Write down your hypotheses in each layer then test the product with customers to see where you’re at with product-market fit. 36:52] What tips do you have for testing? Feature set 5.

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