Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With the evolution of digital technologies, we’re now exposed to other people’s opinions, ideas, and work on an almost minute-by-minute basis. That’s ok, let’s test this hypothesis. UI refinement used to consume the majority of my time. Let’s be honest: creativity is a nebulous landscape. Not convinced?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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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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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Such insight, and their acquisition of such continues broadening, then helps informs competitive user engagement strategies. User loyalty is the natural result. Keep reading for info on Google’s current user research.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2021

Food tracker apps have gained immense popularity. It becomes a necessary tool since there is no better and faster way for diet people to create an effective nutrition plan. Currently, an enormous number of mobile app developments focused on digital health and wellness have been public on the app market.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. What is our positioning?

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

Are you looking for customer feedback software for your SaaS business? We’ve compiled this list of the best customer feedback tools and sorted them by the key business criteria you’ll need to consider when making your decision. What is Customer Feedback Software? Look no further!

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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

But figuring out which sales tools you should buy and invest in – let alone what each tool even does – can be a daunting task. This is especially true when you consider the seemingly endless list of sales tools to choose from. Before we begin: how to choose your sales tools. Better tools, not more tools.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

We are teaching business leaders and change agents how to prototype their way to viable solutions. In this context, solutions aren’t product solutions, but rather internal programs and processes that effect change within the organization. In the product world, that means our customers and our end-users. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Chris shared the story of how he introduced the opportunity solution tree to several teams at his company and a few of the iterations that helped make the tree an indispensable tool at SuperAwesome. He works at SuperAwesome, a UK-based company that develops tools and services to make the internet safer for kids. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

How do managers monitor and provide feedback without dictating and controlling? When we ask our teams to build an Android app or to develop a subscription offering, we are also being output-oriented. What if our customers aren’t on Android? Or they prefer a mobile web experience to an app experience? than on Android?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But the concepts don’t mean much if you’re not making real changes to the way you work—whether it’s how often you talk to customers , what you discuss in your conversations with them, or what you do with those findings. Let’s be clear: The tools alone won’t automatically make you better at discovery. What tools are they using?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ You also have a mobile app that sends similar messages via push notifications.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. But there’s always the next user story to tackle.

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Usersnap

JULY 16, 2021

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company; User Research matters too! Such insight, and their acquisition of such continues broadening, then helps informs competitive user engagement strategies. User loyalty is the natural result. Keep reading for info on Google’s current user research.

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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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. They might even have regular steps in their processes that remind them to put their users’ needs first. It’s more about looking for new ways to collect insights from users, uncover underlying assumptions, and explore the opportunity space.

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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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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2018

Both in life and at work, we tend to come up with solutions before defining the problem they solve. It’s natural – solutions and features are easy to imagine and talk about with other people. And coming up with a solution is a rewarding experience, it makes us feel like we have everything figured out.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

If you have followed us over at Sherlock , you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. This is because the entire SaaS business model is dependent on people using (and getting value from) your product consistently over time. Active vs engaged users.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2020

is a special four-part series on Inside Intercom exploring what that means for various facets of life and learning how people across many industries and countries are managing to persevere with the help of technology. O ff the clock – how are folks socializing and what tools are helping them? Responding to serious needs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. Know what our users want? To as many people as possible. Who will be there?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It’s often more common to see project-based user research rather than an ongoing, iterative discovery process.” Tweet This Teeba liked how Teresa focuses on continuous discovery, and she learned about the opportunity solution tree at a conference. . I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management.

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Mind the Product

MAY 2, 2019

It’s a first-class challenge if you’re a design research nerd like me. It means taking a creative approach with your research tools you use, as one of our recent projects illustrates. This meant we needed to do some research with children to understand how they engage with voice assistants. Testing a Concept in the Field.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think there’s a whole bunch of stuff around trends, where we’re now saying, “If we’re going to make good decisions about what to build, let’s include the customer in the process. Let’s have feedback loops. Let’s test our assumptions. Why do you need to talk to a customer?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. So let’s talk about mini-research. Think of research as digging for gold. There is only the real world.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

MAY 21, 2020

Although perceived by many as a threat to traditional education, web and mobile apps can play a big role in children's cognitive development. So how can we, designers, help our users (kids) to make the most of their experience when interacting with a digital product? Why are apps important for kids ?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In her role as Chief Product Officer, Lily looks after Product, Design, Research, and Data within the business. Lily says her team’s purpose is to provide both business and customer value with a strong focus on growth. “We Withholding feedback blocks a learning opportunity” and “Relax! We all learned a lot,” says Lily.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At some inflection point of growth, it becomes impossible to intuitively know your customers, let alone decide which ones to focus on. We could no longer assume all our customers had uniform needs and could be reached the same way. What is customer segmentation? This final assumption in particular was no longer true or useful.

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