Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 20, 2020

Unpacking this central conundrum is at the heart of Alex Wolf’ s work – the self-described “consumer-facing anthropologist” has made a career by thinking deeply and talking widely about issues related to the pervasive role of technology in modern life. Short on time? Once the internet became a mobile experience, it was ever-present.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

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. Want to check out the other posts in this series?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It’s difficult to find a SaaS company that isn’t already in the niche you wish to enter! The solution? Vertical SaaS! Vertical SaaS has had a tremendous run during the last decade. Why is Vertical SaaS on the rise? Spotify is an example of regular SaaS ; you pay to conveniently locate and stream music.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

The Most Trusted Custom Software Development Companies in Poland Are you looking for a reliable software development partner for your business? Hopefully, this list of the top leaders in the software development industry in Poland will help you make the right choice. The modern world is now built on software.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 21, 2020

2020 has been volatile for Finance apps. COVID-19 hit apps in the Finance category with a one-two punch, with heavy increases in usage as well as staggering drops in economic activity. Apptentive published our 2020 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report for Finance apps in early March, right as COVID-19 hit North America hard.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

This need is what led me to think about and design the opportunity solution tree. When I finally wrote about the opportunity solution tree (back in 2016), I knew that it was a big enough idea that I would need to write a book about it. I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. That was a start.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

If you have followed us over at Sherlock , you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. This is because the entire SaaS business model is dependent on people using (and getting value from) your product consistently over time. Active vs engaged users.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

If you are a product manager dealing with this, beware that one size doesn’t fit all. An October 2016 survey by the organization, Mind the Product, asked the question “ What’s your #1 single biggest product management challenge right now?” Executives, who are driven by revenue or key customer relationships (often not market based).

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

Vision: Astro Teller, the leader of Alphabet’s research and development firm X, is widely recognized for employing moonshots as a strategy. The next step is to articulate a radical solution—a solution that would solve the problem if it could somehow exist, even if the product or service sounds like it’s straight out of a sci-fi story.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2020

Do you want to know how your mobile app engagement data compares to others in your industry? This information is critical for most product managers and mobile marketers to optimize the mobile customer experience. We’ve gathered and analyzed customer engagement data from the mobile apps in the following categories: Finance.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As if we needed more proof that all product managers are obsessed with finding ever-better tools to do our jobs with, this ProductTank talk by Janna Bastow where she shared her essential product management toolkit for every stage of the product management lifecycle was one of the most popular this year. Behind Every Great Product.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think there’s a whole bunch of stuff around trends, where we’re now saying, “If we’re going to make good decisions about what to build, let’s include the customer in the process. Let’s have feedback loops. Let’s test our assumptions. Why do you need to talk to a customer?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

As the CEO of Dribbble, a global community and invite-only platform for designers to share and find work, Zack Onisko faces a unique challenge: how do you grow a gated product? Stewart: Thinking back to Dribbble in its earliest days, it was fundamentally a place for designers to post work in progress and get feedback.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2017

While the Amazon Echo Show is an impressive addition to the repertoire of voice and video monitoring systems in this growing market, it’s not the product features that are drawing attention. If your favorite smart gadgets don’t synchronize, then there is less of an incentive to integrate them into existing home systems.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is concept testing and how can it help accelerate your product-led growth ? In this article, we’ll go over some concept testing examples from some of the best B2B and B2C brands to help you get started with your strategy. Validate new features by asking users if they helped to achieve their goals.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive. What is Product-Market fit?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2018

For years I’ve helped my clients create new digital products and services for their customers. We threw terms like product/market fit around, without ever really giving a thought to what they meant. The first time round, I started with an idea, developed a solution and then tried to find customers. Well, not quite….

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

They kept their model away from traditional sales-led growth through product innovation, customer experience and still managed to be best-in-class. Away from these sales pitches, freemium or trial version makes the user hooked to product, onboard themselves that push them to upgrade the subscription. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 12, 2019

Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group , delivered the opening keynote to the 2016 Mind the Product Conference. His keynote, “Behind Every Great Product,” highlights professionals involved in some of the most iconic technology products of our time, including Netflix, iTunes and Word for Mac.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“It’s our great privilege to help tell the Intercom story, to bring you the personal stories of the wonderful people behind our product” We also published five guides, covering every aspect of buying a live chat tool and how to implement it for sales and marketing. . Thanks so much for reading and listening throughout the year.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In 2016, Brad Frost introduced atomic design: a new approach to designing systems in which all interfaces can be broken down into small, modular building blocks that can be reused and recombined. Last week, we discussed what research repositories are and why researchers, designers, and product managers alike should invest in them.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Looking for some SaaS Product Marketing examples you could implement to drive growth for your product ? There are some best practices you need to follow when it comes to a SaaS marketing strategy that works – it's not enough to simply copy-paste what other SaaS companies are doing. Use in-app Checklists to guide your users.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

When it comes to designing digital systems, there is always a risk of forgetting there will be humans involved and, as a result, making things more robotic than realistic. Here are five quick takeaways: Conversational design as a concept is about looking at human conversation as a model for all interactions with digital systems.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Consumer adoption of voice-based products has grown to the point where businesses need to understand what voice-based experiences can mean to them. The test-and-learn approach my colleagues at Moonshot and I use is an adaptation of the Design Sprint. challenge by offering a test-and-learn approach that minimizes risk.

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UX Studio

JUNE 25, 2019

Have you ever thought of designing apps for seniors? I’ve collected five of the dozens of interesting traits for the elderly I’ve come across during my projects as a UX researcher. The 20-30–year-old, tech-savvy people who live in large cities and tend to download new and exciting apps make up our audience base.” Here they go.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? In B2B companies, value should ultimately generate profit (get new customers, upsell to current customers, or avoid churn), and it ends up in an equation like this. In fact, some methods are pretty poor.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

The UI of your SaaS needs to leave a lasting impression on your users, which is why we’ve compiled a list of 11 top UI designers for you. The list is based on what SaaS owners are recommending in several popular Facebook groups. It takes just one clunky UI element to drive someone away from your site or app. 2: Hatchly.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 20, 2020

When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. Our success was anchored on what I now call The Adjacent User Theory. The Adjacent Users are aware of a product and possibly tried using the it, but are not able to successfully become an engaged user.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Unless you work at a startup where you don’t have any existing products yet, there is probably a vocal group of stakeholders, such as customers and sales, that’s interested in fixing real or perceived issues with your existing products. On the surface, it makes sense: Let your users do the hard work for you.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Having spoken at conferences twice this year on the subject of design and emotion, I was spurred into writing this post by the number of people who gave me positive feedback. It may sound obvious but emotionally-engaged customers are more likely to recommend, more likely to repurchase, and are less price sensitive.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen. Quantifying Qualitative Research by Leisa Reichelt. How Calm Technology Can Help Us Be More Human by Amber Case. Remaking the Making Company – From Technology to Experiences by Maria Giudice. The Importance of Listening to Your Customers by David Cancel.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The British dystopian series, Black Mirror envisions our worst nightmares about technology. Relations between technology and design. The concepts of user experience and human-centered design have taken the business world by storm, but this power has come at a cost. Technology is based.

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