Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests. Next is the opportunity space.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 3, 2025

The 60-30-10 Rule Research by the late Harvard professor J. Which tools and environment does the team require? Have the team members established shared processes and tools ? Continuously improving team performance, processes, and tools. Despite being well-intended, this can hurt morale and further hamper productivity.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When it comes to continuous discovery , there’s no such thing as “the perfect tool.” Instead of seeking the best tool out there, it’s much more effective to look for the best tool for your team. Teresa often says, “The best tool is the one that your team will use.” Today, we’re taking a slightly different approach.

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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. She asks what are the risks involved in “outsourcing” so many of our skills to technology.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another. No one can denythat.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. Eva Spexard is the Head of Operations and People at Passion.io , a mobile app builder for creators. helps its customers monetize their passion and skills and reach their audiences with their own app.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 5, 2022

The following data and information is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Subcategories for Finance Apps: Fintech, Banking, Insurance. Finance apps experienced another year of customer engagement gains as people became more comfortable with managing their finances through apps.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re not tracking metrics, analyzing them, and tweaking your app accordingly, you’re missing out on potential optimizations that could dramatically improve customer experience. Setting mobile app KPIs (key performance indicators) for revenue, performance, and CX is an important first step toward accomplishing this.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. A lot of our product work requires discovery, which is why the Opportunity-Solution-Experiment concepts in Teresa Torres’ tree are ideal. However, other types of work don’t need that.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

What parts of the system design will be addressed? This is especially valuable for large systems that contain many different parts. This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Bad vision statements To be the best eCommerce platform in theworld.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. The right platform will equip you with the tools to interact effectively, gather valuable feedback, and build lasting customer relationships. Integrations with other tools: Does it integrate with CRM, marketing automation, and other essential business applications?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 6, 2021

While the year was disastrous for many food and drink companies, there were also many whose apps tell incredible tales of resilience, ingenuity, and embracing the digital shift. Read on for data-supported research and benchmarks Food and Drink apps should focus on in 2021 and beyond based on what was learned from a year like no other.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Jobs-To-Be-Done is a great tool, concept, and language that helps us understand the customer’s problem, what they need solved, and what might prevent them from buying our product. Bob began his research at an airport when he noticed someone selecting a Snickers bar. They decided to keep both brands and reframe their marketing.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Now there are more and more resources, like blogs, books, online courses and even training programs for Product Management. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. During the project, teams were organized by platform (web, iOS, Android, etc.), In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

or so narrow they box you into today’s solutions instead of tomorrow’s possibilities. The “Pet Project” Parade: Goals that are actually solutions in disguise. About Customers “Which customers are we targeting, and what research shows they want this?” We’re launching a course on Product Institute in Q4 2024 on this.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. Teams and executives turned to data-driven decision making, and the tools and software followed. -- So what does that mean for the next 10 years? Supporting infrastructure will be needed to disseminate market research, and customer feedback to teams.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now I talk a lot on my podcast and in this newsletter about the correlation between successful companies and an obsession with velocity. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 13, 2021

In our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report , a study of 1,000 apps across a billion+ app installs, we take a close look at apps in the Food and Drink category. 2021 Engagement Benchmarks for Retail and eCommerce Apps. The average Shopping iOS app saw 183,873 app store ratings, received a 4.65

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

SaaS tools are the industry's biggest open secret. Wondering what type of tools you should have in your stack? Then read on to discover the top 20 cloud-based apps that will help streamline different parts of your business. TL;DR SaaS tools are applications that users can access through an internet connection.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2024

Amanda Wernicke and Craig Fogel are product managers within the Product R&D department at Convo , a Deaf-owned sign language interpretation services and technology company. They enrolled in Continuous Interviewing in 2022 and since then, between the two of them, they’ve taken all the deep dive courses.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Most of these projects are framed in the solution space—they take the form of “build this feature” or “launch this program.”. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project. If we do, it’s usually in the form of project-based research. Tweet This. Most of us grew up in a project world.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Product Innovation The Business Model Canvas is a valuable tool for product managers involved in innovation.

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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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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Research Research is the foundation of the product design process. Things to do: Write research questions : Start by framing what unknowns you need to explore and what objectives you hope to achieve. Formulate clear questions that will guide your research activities. This will help you specify the scope of your prototype.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

A career in product design offers just thata unique opportunity to bring your ideas to life while shaping the future of technology, sustainability, and user experiences. If youve ever found yourself reimagining how an app, gadget, or even a physical product could work better, this might be the career foryou.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 22, 2024

The Two-Hour Design Sprint: A Crash Course So, what exactly is a two-hour design sprint? Example: Imagine you’re designing a new dashboard for a fintech app. Brainstorm and Choose Solutions (60 minutes) This is where the magic happens. ” According to Cain’s research, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

What tools should you use to test your assumptions? When we hear about an unmet customer need, pain point, or desire, we often jump to our first solution. We intuitively know not to only look at one apartment or house or interview at only one company, but in the workplace we’re often tempted to jump to our first solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. Nor from reading research reports from your research team. What exactly is it?

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Or: Helping users understand and instantly fall in love with a new product IdeaPilot AI — Onboarding design for AI-powered SaaS platform If you have a complex, sophisticated product and you want it to engage users and solve their problems, what you need is proper onboarding. Learnify — UX/UI design of the online courses platform 4.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

User engagement metrics measure how actively and effectively users interact with a platform, product, or service. Daily Active Users (DAU): Number of users who engage with the platform daily. social media platforms, news,gaming). Google conducted research on how loading time affects bouncerate. e-learning, businesstools).

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. The solution: Optimize your resources with the Conversational Support Funnel.

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