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What Is Intuitive Product Design? The Secret To Creating User-Centric Products

Userpilot

Why does intuitive product design matter? Shouldn’t useful features be enough to propel your product to success? Unfortunately, nobody will use features that don’t provide excellent product experiences. This post tackles everything you must know about designing an intuitive product that customers will love to use. TL;DR. Intuitive product design is the process of making products easier to use.

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How Product Strategy Fails in the Real World — What to Avoid When Building Highly-Technical Products

First Round Review

Why does strategy tend to stall when the rubber hits the road? Nate Stewart, Chief Product Officer of Cockroach Labs, shares an essential guide for creating a resilient strategy that’s still standing next year.

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Writing: The One Skill Every Product Manager Needs To Know

The Product Coalition

Writing is a skill that every product manager utilizes every day. Good writing is underrated and goes unnoticed when done wel… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Taking Over an Existing Product: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash Congratulations! You’re a Product Manager or Product Owner or both, and you have a new opportunity to add an existing product to your arsenal. One catalyst for this scenario is when a colleague leaves, or changes positions. Someone has to take over her products or features. Until they hire a replacement, it’s your responsibility.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Human Behavior is Product Management

Feedback Loop

Will Leach is the CEO at Mindstate Group.

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Five Analytics UX Challenges SaaS Products Face

The Product Coalition

Today, almost any SaaS platform offers a reporting or insights module. But how are users experiencing these features? What do they like? And more importantly, what don’t they like? User research is the best way to find out. A little investigative research on G2 uncovered the top 5 analytics UX mistakes made by SaaS vendors. Here are the top complaints distilled from 4,600 G2 product reviews of 140 top SaaS vendors. 1.

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How product experience drives Net Revenue Retention

Gainsight

Three major impacts all companies should leverage. SaaS is a hefty $152 billion market , partly because tech stacks are growing. Companies use an average of 75 technologies to manage everything from business intelligence to web conferencing and gathering e-signatures. However, not all SaaS companies know how their business customers use their products, let alone how to increase engagement to make customers more successful.

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403: Which truth of product management are you missing? – with JJ Rorie

Product Innovation Educators

Five must-have skills for product managers. Today we are talking about the importance of product management and what makes a product manager great. We have the perfect person for this discussion, JJ Rorie. JJ has spent her professional career in product roles, both leading product in internal roles and advising and coaching companies. She teaches a graduate product management course for the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University and hosts the Product Voices podcast.

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How to Use Product Goals and Initiatives to Drive and Measure Success

Userpilot

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more. Ready to get started? Let’s dive in!

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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Never Stop Iterating

The Product Guy

Never stop iterating your product. Too many give up after 1 or 2 iterations. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Announcing our new guide ‘Unlocking Customer Engagement: Drive Action With In-Product Messaging’

Intercom, Inc.

It’s no secret that businesses today are feeling the financial squeeze. As costs and competition continue to rise, companies need to hone in on activating, engaging, and retaining their customers while minimizing their overheads. Luckily, we’ve launched a new guide to help you achieve just that. These times of change bring opportunities as well as challenges.

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Show your true innovative colours by Julia Shalet

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Heidelberg talk Product Doctor's Managing Director Julia Shalet examines the attributes of an innovative product manager and looks at how to gauge whether you’re being innovative. [.] Read more » The post Show your true innovative colours by Julia Shalet appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Coach a Product Team to Execute the Eight Core Elements of Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

“A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.”?—?John Wooden I still remember the day I met my college coach. As a freshman NCAA swimmer, I was excited and terrified for the first team meeting. Yet minutes in, the coach had calmed the team, taken command, and started setting the path forward. My excitement grew, and my trepidation faded.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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The Surprising Science of “Manifestation”

Nir Eyal

Manifesting is bull. There, I said it. According to Oprah, manifesting is bringing something tangible into your life through attraction and belief—i.e. if you think it, it will come. It encourages people to bring a goal to life by making vision boards, writing in manifestation journals, chanting positive affirmations, and speaking it into existence.

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Engineering principles: Shaping the solution and building in small steps

Intercom, Inc.

Our product principles are deeply embedded in Intercom’s culture. Over the years, they’ve helped us keep teams aligned, create products our customers love, and guide our decisions through every roadmap, every strategy meeting, and every onboarding. Recently, we started a blog series exploring the thought process behind each of our product principles, written by the people that know them the best – our R&D team.

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Learnings from London: The secret sauce to hiring great product people by Kate Leto

Mind the Product

Today, we look back to the not-so-distant past of pre-pandemic times at #mtpcon London 2019. Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. [.] Read more » The post Learnings from London: The secret sauce to hiring great product people by Kate Leto appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Spot Strategic Thinkers in Your Team, and Why It Matters.

The Product Coalition

Hint: it’s all about building a brighter future. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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What is Product Value and How Can You Increase it?

Userpilot

What exactly is product value? What can product managers do to measure and increase it? These are some of the questions we’re answering in the article! Ready? Let’s dive in! TL;DR. Product value is how well your app helps customers achieve their goals compared to competitors. The value proposition is the summary of the positioning strategy.

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Flexible Research for More Flexible Insights

dscout People Nerds

How Hinge Health’s UXR team uses a mixed-methods practice to both engage stakeholders and adapt to an evolving—and ever critical—healthcare space.

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3 myths that get in the way of product adoption by Martina Lauchengo

Mind the Product

In this keynote session at #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022, Martina Lauchengco, Partner at SVPG and author of Loved: How to rethink marketing for tech products, unpicks three myths of Product that get in the way of driving product adoption. [.] Read more » The post 3 myths that get in the way of product adoption by Martina Lauchengo appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. Without well-researched facts that are based on reality for your company and customers ( insights ), you won’t make good decisions.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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You’re not starting from scratch: How your transferable skills can help you get ahead in a new career

Intercom, Inc.

Before I became a software engineer, I worked as an editor and a journalist. I have always enjoyed writing, and learned a lot from the work I did everyday. But after transitioning into tech, I realized that a lot of people who switch careers try to hide or at least diminish their previous professional experience as irrelevant. However, I am convinced that a lot of skills are perfectly transferable between careers, and can actually bring valuable perspectives and approaches to a new field.

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How to Announce UI Updates to Your Customers and Drive SaaS Product Growth

Userpilot

Every SaaS company implements UI updates from time to time, but how should they announce UI updates to customers without overwhelming them? In this article, we’ll share actionable tips on how to announce product updates to your customers to drive product growth. TL; DR. UI updates are changes to the user interface (UI) of a product to improve its look and feel.

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Building products in the Metaverse – Mitchell Bayer-Goldman on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

What is the Metaverse and how can it help product managers in their daily craft? To help us make sense of the movement, Lily and Randy talked with Mitchell Bayer-Goldman to help us unpack all of the buzzwords and complexities about the Metaverse, and why we as product managers should note of where the concept is going. Bonus points for how many times we mention the word "Metaverse"!

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Transparency in Fintech User Experiences: How Northwestern Mutual Builds Digital Products

The Product Coalition

According to Laine Henry, Fmr UX Lead at Northwestern Mutual Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Build Your Best Product Strategy: An Action Plan You Can Start Now

As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.

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10 Excellent Open Source Bug Tracking Tools, by Usersnap

Usersnap

Over the last few years, developers got some superpowers. Or at least, technologies such as open source bug tracking enabled developers to do amazing things. And that’s incredible. That, combined with understanding user and customer feedback , has made devs more important than ever within a business. However, there is one big challenge that comes with every new website or app.

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New Feature’s Success: How To Measure It and Increase the Chances of Your New Feature’s Success?

Userpilot

Wondering how to measure new feature success effectively? Upgrading your product features and introducing new ones is a key part of a successful SaaS product strategy. But how do you measure the success of a new feature? Are the active users aware of the new update? How many users are finding value here? Is it improving the user experience and increasing your monthly recurring revenue?

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SUNDAY REWIND: Product roadmaps in five easy pieces

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us back to a 2018 post from product leader Scott Colfer that digs into five elements that make up a good roadmap. The five elements are, says Scott: Context Set the context for your product, considering things like product lifecycle stage, organisational needs, and audience. Scott says his product roadmaps often [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Product roadmaps in five easy pieces appeared first on Mind the Product.

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