Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2020

As support teams look to the year ahead, there’s no shortage of priorities to juggle – from team efficiency, to customer experience, to business impact. New research from Intercom reveals how support leaders are striking a balance. Below we dive into each of the five key trends from our research.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. Short on time? But there’s a better way now.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Apps are ubiquitous tools to our modern lives. Smartphone users open their favorite apps more than 15 times a month and use up to 40 apps regularly overall. Smartphone users open their favorite apps more than 15 times a month and use up to 40 apps regularly overall.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And further along the line, customer support started being treated as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line impact of creating great customer experiences. In fact, he says the customer experience has never mattered more.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. Jen Murphy – Senior Product Researcher. Customer feedback is a big deal here at Intercom. In London, we focus on improving our support solutions. Then this podcast has the answers.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. The right data and experimentation tools.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2021

Technology plays a critical role in providing customer support at scale. With the right automation underpinning your tech stack, your support team can be empowered to strike the right balance between personalized support and efficiency – something that’s no longer a “nice-to-have” when customer expectations are at an all-time high.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. Natasha Ratanshi-Stein is the founder of Surfboard , a software company that offers scheduling tooling for customer support teams.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Forcing a solution on a problem is never a good thing, but I do think that following tech news, and news about AI specifically, is a huge part of the toolbox for modern-day entrepreneurs. While amazing, I quickly categorized it into the “another really cool tool, way to go world!” Is it time to re-evaluate? It definitely did.

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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. I have experienced this many times on both sides, as the receiver and the critiquer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

We chatted about the company’s evolution from RealtimeBoard, a tool beloved by the UX community, to Miro – a rapidly growing SaaS innovator that boasts Dell, Netflix, Ikea, and Spotify amongst their steadily growing roster of clients. Short on time? Miro has made the move from product to platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

Simply signing up users means nothing if you’re not helping them understand how they can actually achieve what you’ve promised. Even the strongest customer testimonials won’t prevent churn if people don’t understand how to use your product. What is user onboarding, and why does it matter? while using it.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

But that’s going to take time and I want you to have it today. We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions. So I’m going to scratch the surface in this blog post.

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

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Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2024

Are you on the lookout for tools that can help you improve customer retention ? There are quite a few solutions around, so it might be difficult to find, especially as we’re not talking about one specific set of tools but rather a whole range of different solutions covering a range of use cases.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the past five years, we’ve seen neural network technology really take off into its own. In CX, neural networks will likely be used with more traditional machine learning methods to choose actions that provide the best interaction possible with the customer. AI has been quite overhyped in the past.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

Usability testing is an important part of the app development process because it helps to ensure that the app is easy and enjoyable to use. This is particularly important for mobile apps, as users have high expectations for the apps they use and are quick to uninstall those that are difficult or frustrating to use.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

See the Rewriting Effort as an Opportunity to Innovate. Consequently, rewriting efforts are often focused on replacing like-for-like: The users get the same product dressed up in new technologies. While this approach works, I wastes the opportunity to innovate and create more value for the users and business.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. It does not cover common product management practices, such as, product strategy development, product roadmapping, and financial forecasting; and the only product management tool it offers is the product backlog.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

These are sites such as Trustpilot , Reviews.io , G2 Crowd , Capterra and Yelp , which encourage real-world users to share their experiences with brands and create content based on their own brand encounters. It’s completely organic, with users deciding to share their thoughts based on their positive or negative experiences.

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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.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Most mobile app enthusiasts are well aware of Apple’s native rating prompt that was introduced with iOS 10.3 The user experience of rating and reviewing apps improved with these changes, but we wanted to understand the overall impact in terms of the number of ratings collected, the average rating, and the number of reviews.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 13, 2022

Mobile game and app companies are continuously searching for ways to expand their audience base. While it’s common knowledge that localizing your app store page is a must for boosting downloads, localization of your app content will have a significant impact on retention. an ecosystem of mobile apps.

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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.

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

We know in the tech industry that we’ve had challenges for a long time in terms of the diversity of our employees. Maybe not actively, directly supporting hate groups, but allowing them to flourish on their platform. We did the research. We talked to our users and they prefer female names.” Tweet This.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

They interview customers , run usability tests, and conduct A/B tests. In my talk, I shared a clear definition of continuous product discovery that I hope will act as a benchmark to help teams evaluate their own product discovery practices. Show Notes: [1:03] Continuous Product Discovery: A Definition. [3:28] They’ve got this.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the world of recurring revenue, SaaS companies realize they need engaged customers if they are to grow a healthy, sustainable business. This is where having a solid customer engagement strategy comes in. Nowadays, you have to win over your customers month after month just to keep the lights on. Those days are over.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the market for product design tools to support your workflows and help your team work better? A quick Google search will show you heaps of tools, and you may even experience decision fatigue trying to choose the best. In this article, we distilled it to just 15 tools, showing each product’s strengths and weaknesses.

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