Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible. When an API is hard to learn or hard to use, it takes longer for the customer to get value from it. Alright, lets dive in.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

This was a team plagued by poor lead time for feature development and unrealistic expectations, set in part by the inability of the team to provide realistic delivery estimates for features. Without scope discussions, user stories could often run across multiple days making it hard to determine expected delivery. THE EXPERIMENTS.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 7, 2019

A great onboarding experience is one that proves to new users that your product will help them do the job that they want. To put it another way, the ideal onboarding experience is a short, easy and frictionless path to finding value. Adopting a new product takes time and effort.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

You’ll find a collection of battle-tested prompts, real-world examples, and a step-by-step guide you can put into practice immediately. He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). Use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off. Enrollment closes January 23rd.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. To get engineers involved in continuous discovery , Ellen began by inviting them to participate in customer interviews.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At the company level, the mission and vision is typically articulated by the founders/CEO and tends to be durable over time. Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

If your product is stagnating, if youve ever felt stuck despite following best practices, it’s time to face an uncomfortable truth: the rules you’ve been following may be holding you back. If you’re ready to stop playing by outdated rules and start driving real impact, it’s time to rethink your approach.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Delivering customer love starts with listening to your customers. To get a sense of how customers feel about your brand, you must start by tracking customer sentiment. This post covers five ways to track and evaluate customer sentiment. What is customer sentiment and why does it matter? No, not NPS.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been. Simple task, right? Pillars to a Proto-Strategy. First Attempt.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

As described above it is worth investing time and effort to understand for each new project who has a stake and whom to manage closely or others to just to keep informed. Secondly, when should you spend time to identify stakeholders ? As different stakeholders have different priorities and expectations for the product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. Well implemented, product demos help to: Improve user engagement : Today’s B2B buyers are independent—they want to research and evaluate solutions on their own terms.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

How Rumi Cosmetiques Boosted User Experience and Conversion Rates in eCommerce: A Case Study for Marketers andManagers Discover how Rumi Cosmetiques achieved a 75% increase in cart adds and doubled conversion rates by enhancing user experience and conversion rate in eCommerce. Ready to uncover their secrets? Keepreading!

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Has clicking that icon met the user intent of the feature?

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

Understanding customer experience (CX) isn’t just a strategy—it’s a superpower. Customer experience metrics illuminate the path to customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately, success as an organization. Why should I track customer experience metrics?

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. Organic, when you attract users through public platforms and owned media marketing. Use referrals to encourage users to refer your app to others.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. But in truth, there’s never been a better time. Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard. mParticle is the customer data platform for brands leading the CX revolution.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

It’s no longer about making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week—if not every day. In each instance, Ellen found a solution that didn’t require too much time or technical know-how to set up. You can submit yours here.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Customer experience (CX) is central to product management and the success of your SaaS platform. It can help retain customers and gain loyal brand advocates. And that’s why the customer experience software solutions you choose matter greatly. Book a demo now to see how it can boost customer experience.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve heard it again and again – these are odd times; we’re not working remotely, we’re working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. Customer Discovery. Remote Working. Adapting to change.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This means that by the time it gets to the engineers, the message is unrecognizable. It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. Good discovery establishes a direct communication line between the team who is building the product and the customer. The trio should lead all discovery efforts.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. This was going to be a team effort. Paving a way forward. Share the work.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Customers who actively connect with your brand are more likely to stay loyal, spend more, and become advocates. 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.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #4: The product owner is responsible for writing user stories.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. It covers planning, estimating, and scheduling.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. In fact, our tests regularly failed. We’d made great code. Similar, right?

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

Knowing what your customer does at different stages of their relationship with you can help increase engagement, loyalty, and customer retention. You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. It helps increase customer loyalty , brand awareness, conversions, and engagement.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

They will always try to make processes more efficient, go out of their way to learn more about the industry and product, and constantly think about what they could do to improve the product for the users. They will challenge themselves and the team to work in smarter ways, ask more questions, and think about code improvement.

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