Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

They might feel anxious about taking on tasks that are new to them and outside their regular routine at work, like speaking directly with customers. We’ll dig into why the engineers were hesitant to get involved, the solution they came up with, and some of the lessons they’ve learned along the way. To help people win with money.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Many of these approaches are intended as reasonable defaults; they are my opinions, they aren’t rules, and they certainly won’t fit every situation.

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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]

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. We can’t just build for the good path.

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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. The Custom Route.

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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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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. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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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. User research is a vital part of the design process. Since Thomas Watson Jr.

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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. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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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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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. And you can always feel product/market fit when it’s happening.

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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.

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. If you think you have excellent Product Judgment, this post will definitely help you.

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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. It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. It means that the product focus has shifted to prioritize mobile as the main consumer channel, with others coming secondary. Mobile App Management Blog by Apperian.

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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. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Depending on who you ask, the answer will vary depending on what they genuinely know or understand about consumers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2021

Product Validation vs. Research?—?A A Follow Up The discussions around product validation and research have provoked some excellent debate in the community and at Terem. Getting tight on the definition and use of validation in product is something that has emerged for me recently as the phrase has gained traction and popular use.

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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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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

APRIL 21, 2021

I’ve worked with teams in all industries—regulated industries, consumer companies, B2B companies. It’s a framework that’s been well tested and works in a lot of different contexts. Maybe not actively, directly supporting hate groups, but allowing them to flourish on their platform. We did the research.

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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.

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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. Miro has made the move from product to platform. Short on time?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Usability testing is an essential part of the product design process. However, face-to-face testing isn’t always practical, so UX teams turn to remote usability testing as an alternative. TL;DR Remote usability testing is a UX research method that doesn’t require meeting the participants face-to-face.

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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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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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Product Talk

JANUARY 10, 2018

We equate prototyping with a quick way to get user feedback on our designs. But when we think of rapid prototyping and usability testing as one and the same, we tend to underestimate the power of prototyping. When we conflate rapid prototyping and usability testing, we tend to underestimate the power of prototyping.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Generative vs evaluative research methods are two techniques for conducting user research when managing your product. Both UX research methods are different but provide valuable insights to help your product development process. Decide which new feature to work on by using in-app surveys with open-ended questions.

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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.

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. Trustpilot, a consumer review site. Of course, getting featured on a consumer review site is the easier of the options.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2023

Startup growth expert, Matt Lerner, talks about his million dollar lesson learned while characterizing consumers. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product people know that their greatest value lies in how well they understand consumers. He realized he was asking the wrong questions about consumers. Makes checkout easy 3.

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. Teresa: Okay.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Product thinking is all about putting yourself in the other person’s (user) shoes. Only by adopting a product-thinking mindset and following it as a process can you get to know your users better. TL;DR Product thinking is the process of identifying problems and coming up with solutions by placing the user in the center.

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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.

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