Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

According to Harvard Business Review, 80% of new products fail, primarily because companies fail to conduct proper customer research. The solution seems obvious: improve your customer research process. What is customer research in SaaS? Does customer research help build better products?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations. It’s cyclical.

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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. What does that mean?

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2024

Identifying and testing assumptions is a critical part of continuous discovery. But what happens when your assumption tests don’t go as planned? Amanda Wernicke , Craig Fogel , and Jason Ruzicka knew they needed to test assumptions with users, but found that a virtual assumption test over Zoom wasn’t working for them.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. UX analytics tools worth considering. For product designers, it highlights usability issues , thereby informing design iterations and ensuring more customer-centered solutions.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 17, 2022

As investment in digital transformation continues, mobile apps have become a primary channel of communication with customers. With customers spending more time and money on mobile apps, it is important that companies continue to adapt and prioritize mobile in their customer feedback solution. percent increase from 2021.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

Similarly, the opportunity solution tree can be an incredibly powerful tool for keeping track of your desired outcome , the opportunities you learn about during discovery, the solutions you’re considering for each opportunity, and the experiments you’ll run to assess your ideas. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. – Tweet This In this article, we’ll cover what an opportunity solution tree is, the benefits of using one, how to create one, and so much more.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. The following four measures will help you with this.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Intro to Ramsey Solutions Ramsey Solutions provides common-sense education about money and personal finance.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 23, 2022

Manual testing of your mobile products is important and useful. Automated testing really assists with the efficiency here; being able to execute the same tests repeatedly, quickly and timely on a multitude of devices. What is Mobile Test Automation? Why do Mobile Test Automation? an app or website.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Then when Tali moved to her current position, she brought her opportunity solution tree knowledge along and adapted it to the new setting. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Maybe you’ve even tried some popular AI tools, like the good ol’ ChatGPT. But did you know that certain AI tools work best at specific phases of the design process? Having tested a selection of AI design tools, I’ve found that some are better suited for certain stages of the UX design process than others.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. In this episode, Chip Chonym explains why market research matters throughout the innovation process, discussing both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. Eva Spexard is the Head of Operations and People at Passion.io , a mobile app builder for creators. helps its customers monetize their passion and skills and reach their audiences with their own app.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another. No one can denythat.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When it comes to continuous discovery , there’s no such thing as “the perfect tool.” Instead of seeking the best tool out there, it’s much more effective to look for the best tool for your team. Teresa often says, “The best tool is the one that your team will use.” Today, we’re taking a slightly different approach.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

Taylor Swiftimage via Wikipedia Commons Im a big fan ofuser research. I like testing things withusers. To paraphrase Taylor Swift: me and research vibe likethat. But not everyone vibes with user research. Design without research is guessing: you have no idea what or whose problems youre trying tosolve.

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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. Why build interactive demos for your SaaS product? You can use tools like Userpilot’s funnel analysis to easily identify the Aha! Get started with Userpilot !

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. After researching the problem with my team, we came up with a solution.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

There’s a lot of discussion around conversational computing these days – at Intercom, we talk about our conversational relationship platform , conversational support and conversational marketing. But what makes software conversational? In software, gaps in understanding can be relatively small (“How do I filter by location?”)

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. What’s worse, you will find multiple tools in each category, making it incredibly difficult to pick the tool that satisfies your needs and offers the best value for money.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

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. Integrations with other tools: Does it integrate with CRM, marketing automation, and other essential business applications?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. During the project, teams were organized by platform (web, iOS, Android, etc.), In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year

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