Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. – to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that’s going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice. Customer Discovery. Remote Working.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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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?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But if you have a breather, we’re excited to share some data-backed mobile engagement findings, specifically surrounding how seasonality impacts customer sentiment! We wanted to know: Are customers happier in the summer? When’s the best time to solicit feedback? Media/Entertainment. Grumpier in the winter?

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Product Talk

APRIL 6, 2022

We recently launched the Ask Teresa series on Product Talk, where I tackle common questions and challenges that I hear from people as they begin to adopt continuous discovery. This approach also helps limit the interviewer’s bias by focusing on the customer’s context. These are my research questions. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. It all started a few months ago… The Messy Challenge of Modern Product Discovery. Or you will be left wanting more.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2021

Media and Entertainment apps played a critical role in helping us get through 2020. While the world around us shifted in response to the pandemic, consumers turned to media apps as an outlet to stay informed, connect with loved ones, decompress, and even have some laughs. 2021 Engagement Benchmarks for Media Apps. What a year for news.

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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2021

For most of us, the way that we conduct user research has been different during a year of lockdowns. Not so much for Anna Lee Anda, UX Research Manager at Zendesk — as someone with a global customer base, she’s been working with these techniques for ages. Remote research. Recruiting across regions.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas. Testing business ideas. Testing Business Ideas, by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder: US , UK , DE.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 16, 2021

In response, teams across all industries need to rethink their mobile feedback and engagement strategies to meet rapidly-shifting marketplace changes. Our 2021 report includes data from 1,000 iOS and Android apps with 5,000+ active users, with over a billion app installs evaluated. 2020 reset the mobile app engagement playing field.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 16, 2022

Consumers are more skeptical of digital marketing than ever before, and peer recommendations in the form of app store ratings and reviews stand alone as the single greatest driver of discovery and conversion. When we asked, consumers were clear that the lower the star rating, the less likely they’d be to download the app.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

UX copywriting and user testing? But you don’t have to start from scratch when it comes to testing content and microcopy. We, at UX studio , collected three methods that provide more insights than general AB testing. What are the limitations of A/B testing? What three methods test UX copy better?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2018

For instance, the fundamentals of good marketing haven’t changed: crisp writing, a compelling story, strong brand, and of course, a great product to market. At the same time, consumers are complex creatures – we’re constantly evolving and tuning out marketing noise. DemandGen Report – 2017 Content Preferences Survey ).

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. Discovery is a team sport. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. Its not the exclusive domain of UXers. This is nonsense.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Kim Goodwin’s talk: How can we Build Human-Centred Products.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2021

Are you leaving money on the table, or are you scaring away potential customers? Pricing strategy can be one of the biggest challenges for product people, so we asked Founders Factory coach Fanni Fejes to share some of the lessons she teaches founders. Are you leaving money on the table, or are you scaring away potential customers?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market, and includes mobile benchmarks across 10 main categories and 20 subcategories. 63% of consumers who were proactively engaged in Q1 were still seen later in the year (Q3-Q4).

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

In this short video, I walk through what decision-making looks like in a product trio. If you missed the first video in this series, be sure to check that out first: What’s a product trio? Do product trios really work? What does decision-making really look like in a product trio? What assumptions should they test?

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Although we strive to work in an environment where user research is a part of every stage of the product development lifecycle , and your executives have completely bought in to everything you do… we have to be realistic. UX Researcher / Designer. UX Researcher , Sr. UX Researcher, Delta Dental of Washington.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Joe gave one of the most entertaining and engaging talks at Mind the Product in London 2018, so we followed [.]. Just call him Mr Joe.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. Who the product is for (the market).

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Mind the Product

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the course of lockdown, how we maintain relationships with our nearest and dearest has been tested. But Fabrice des Mazery, CPO at Thiga, suggests the skills we’ve honed during this time can actually be useful in building relationships with our customers. Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products book.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Creating an app is the first fight, but promoting your app and gaining loyal customers through generating app downloads will win the battle. In order to have a successful app, you need to get creative to acquire customers. ASO drives the majority of all new app discoveries. Quick app downloads stats. million iOS apps.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Georgie Smallwood, Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility, joined us on the podcast to chat about the differences in working for earlier stage companies and those that are scaling up. The post The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. She covers why she [.].

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

In 2017, Teresa Torres gave one of our favourite talks on the Mind the Product stage, introducing the concept of Opportunity Solution Trees. When we started this podcast, Teresa was one of the people we simply had to talk to – about this technique, and also about her work as a discovery coach. We weren’t disappointed.

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Userzoom

APRIL 6, 2020

Stephen Apap , Lead UX Researcher at Betsson Group, has been with the online gambling company for over 5 years now, delivering actionable insights and recommendations based on the voice and behavior of the consumer. How did you get into UX research? From here, it was a natural progression to the UX research team at Betsson.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. A/B testing can often kill big, existing ideas because [it] expects results quickly – and you can’t get results quickly from big, important idea changes.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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Userzoom

JANUARY 28, 2020

This week, we’ll look at how user researchers can get started with accessibility testing, design and compliance. . As a UX researcher, you are intimately familiar with identifying and solving problems. In a nutshell, accessibility is how users with impairments – whether permanent or temporary – use the web.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Egyptian-born Abdelrahman (Abdo) Wahba co-founded popular Arabic audiobook site Iqraaly – but it wouldn’t have seen its current success unless Abdo had taken the time to analyse deeply what made customers stay loyal. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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freshtrax

JULY 31, 2023

At btrax, we conduct user interviews to visualize needs and guide service optimization by interviewing users in our North American target audience. What is the value of conducting user interviews that market research alone cannot reveal? Mana (Business Producer): This year, btrax conducted user research in the U.S.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2015

But on one trip back from London, I got a surprising test message. Limited” entertainment system is laughable. There was no entertainment system. In addition to saving the butts of new airlines, HiFly is also used to test new flight routes. Lean is about lowering your risk of failure by testing your ideas early.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2019

The founder and CEO of NYC-based Motivate Design, Mona Patel , first came to our attention after appearing on another great podcast, Jonathan Courtney and Jake Knapp’s Product Breakfast Club. She spoke about running a scaling an agency, which was interesting – but what really got us was her unique take on the Discovery process.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A Tale of Two Products. I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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