Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 16, 2020

For nearly a century, companies held to the same principles for driving growth: deliver value to stakeholders and employees first, then to customers. Customers, too, expect more and will put their money where their values are. Customers, too, expect more and will put their money where their values are.

Customer Experience 237

Customer Experience User Testing Reporting Tools Customer Feedback 237

Alchemer Mobile

MAY 31, 2022

A mobile survey that is served to your customers at the right place and right time helps you understand who they are, why they use your app, and what improvements they want to see. Understanding and acting on emotion and sentiment are key to any customer experience strategy. Gather product feedback.

Product Research 243

Product Research User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback 243

Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. Every customer has unique preferences, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Intuitively, customer individuality makes perfect sense. Gather product feedback.

Product Research 246

Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 246

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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

It’s the perfect storm that produces a swell of people who need to get in touch with customer support. In the midst of such a surge, it’s essential to get customers’ issues resolved quickly. Assisting both customers and support staff by offering predictive suggestions. Short on time?

User Testing 245

User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback Feedback Software 245

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Sense their frustration?

Customer Experience 209

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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.

Data Visualization 211

Data Visualization Reporting Tools User Testing Customer Feedback 211

Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 8, 2022

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as “VoC”), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. Voice of the customer templates. Definition of the voice of the customer (VoC). Definition of the voice of the customer (VoC). What do your customers want?

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Product Talk

MAY 18, 2022

You might need to get buy-in or support from leadership, you may need to collaborate with user research or data science teams, and you will likely experience some overlap with customer-facing teams like sales, marketing, and customer success. Your sales rep is responsible for renewing revenue from existing customers.

User Testing 241

User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback Product Research 241

Product Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s true that discovery takes time. Interviewing customers , building opportunity solution trees , running assumption tests —these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. Tweet This Still, in our Product Talk courses and webinars, we often hear the complaint that teams don’t have time for discovery.

Product Research 266

Product Research Customer Experience Data Visualization User Testing 266

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. This knowledge gives teams a competitive advantage that compounds over time. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

User Testing 228

User Testing Reporting Tools Customer Experience User Friction 228

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Our de-facto ways of working made it difficult for us to learn from one another, especially when it came to socializing best practices for talking to our customers. million a year in lost productivity.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 223

Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

App uninstalls are common and any app that fails to dazzle users, doesn’t offer value, or does not provide lucrative incentives to keep using the app, is likely to go down the uninstall path within the first three days. The main function of an app’s design is to simplify the customer experience and customer interactions.

Analytic Tools 246

Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing Customer Feedback 246

Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a fellow Product Talk coach, Hope Gurion uses opportunity solution trees with customers on a regular basis. How do you represent different customer segments on an opportunity solution tree? It’s easy to get overwhelmed when interviewing customer after customer. They have different types of customers. Tweet This.

Customer Experience 225

Customer Experience User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 225

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. At the same time, you are not the boss, and you cannot tell the team members what to do.

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Weak Development Team Development Software Review Technical Review 349

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

Artificial Inteligence 281

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. I like to work ruthlessly to simplify the opportunity space as much as possible so that I can quickly see where I should spend my time and energy. I can’t emphasize this enough.

User Friction 248

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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. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. It achieves this by stating the product’s target users and customers, the value proposition, the business goals it should meet, and its standout features.

Customer Experience 277

Customer Experience Product Research Technical Review Data Visualization 277

Userpilot

MAY 13, 2024

Customer feedback surveys serve as invaluable tools for gathering actionable insights directly from your audience. However, it’s important to know when and how to trigger the forms to gather user feedback , for increased response rate and data credibility. Customer Effort Score (CES). Get a demo.

Customer Feedback 91

Customer Feedback User Testing Feedback Software Product Research 91

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The SaaS industry is full of advice on the perfect product metrics to gauge your users’ activation, engagement, and interactions. Product metrics are data measurements that businesses use to evaluate the success of a product and determine how customers are engaging with it. Percentage of users who used a certain product feature.

Data Visualization 269

Data Visualization Analytic Tools User Testing Customer Experience 269

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. What does the company do and who are your main customers?

Product Research 283

Product Research User Testing Research Software Data Visualization 283

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. In 2021, mobile apps were downloaded more than 230 billion times globally. It indicates if your user base is growing or shrinking.

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Feedback Software Research Software User Testing Customer Experience 244

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1]. Or would it be better to address the worst debt now?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Good design is good business.

Research Software 245

Research Software Feedback Software Reporting Tools User Testing 245

Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I can’t tell you how many times I hear this sentiment on Twitter and LinkedIn. 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.” And I hate it. Only 28.8%

Product Research 220

Product Research Data Visualization Customer Feedback Weak Development Team 220

Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

You’ve probably heard the terms customer engagement and customer experience used interchangeably. The confusion makes sense, too, since the two concepts are similar, with both aiming to build customer loyalty. So, customer engagement vs. customer experience, which one should you prioritize?

Customer Experience 86

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is problematic especially for young products and those that experience a bigger change, like a life cycle extension , as their backlogs tend to be volatile and require frequent and sometimes bigger adjustments. Looking at the backlog, I noticed that it contained only detailed user stories—no epics or other coarse-grained items.

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Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing Feedback Software 296

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity).

Product Research 232

Product Research Data Visualization Customer Feedback User Testing 232

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s explore the reasons teams engage customers and the challenges they are likely to face in doing so In the past, I have written a post on how to start engaging customers without going into reasons why that may be helpful. Also, in this post, I do not speak about specific techniques to increase value from customer engagement.

User Testing 130

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Development 130

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. Since participating in a Product Talk Master Class about a year ago, Ellen says she’s been obsessed with aligning business goals to product value for her customers and has been working to implement pieces of that over time at her company. Tweet This.

Product Research 263

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

Customer Experience 138

Customer Experience Customer Feedback Feedback Software User Testing 138

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In some ways, this discussion is more relevant to product teams, and product-led companies, than for growth teams, who are by definition focused on outcomes. It wasn’t enough to efficiently solve customer problems; we needed to be thinking about how we were helping our business to be more successful. Feature-driven projects.

Onboarding KPIs 281

Onboarding KPIs Framework Product Research User Testing 281

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

This is a time of great uncertainty, with everyone suddenly having to adjust to social distancing restrictions and widespread industry upheaval. Our customers are relying on Intercom more than ever, and often in a host of new and unforeseen ways. A time for the tried and tested. What information do we need to figure this out?

Software Review 223

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

And if you’re trying to guide your teams toward being more empowered and autonomous, this is a process that takes dedicated time and commitment. She regularly shares her learnings and insights on LinkedIn and recently took some time to chat with Teresa for this Product in Practice about her teams’ experience with continuous discovery.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Other companies that are well-versed in role definition usually need help in the Product Strategy and Product Operations department as they scale.The Product Strategy category is a frequently weak area - sometimes not due to the quality of the vision and strategy, but to the way it's deployed.

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