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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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. How Products Fail Without Customer Empathy. First Principles of customer empathy.

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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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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

MAY 10, 2022

From adding features to modifying the user interface, the directions you can take your mobile app are endless. With infinite choices and limited bandwidth, how do you decide what to prioritize when it comes to improving your mobile customer experience? Learning more about your customers is the best place to start.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Which change in users’ behaviour do we want to drive? Then we think about potential solutions or features. Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. Obstacles are often linked to the pain points that customers currently experience [here in their shopping journey].

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Market research essentials for product managers Today we are talking about the knowledge area called market research. How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Needs are not solutions.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2022

Creating frequent touch points with customers is one of the core tenets of continuous discovery. I’ve often said that I believe interviewing customers frequently and consistently is a keystone habit. They get better at connecting what they’re learning from their research activities to the product decisions they’re making.

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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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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? This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience. This results in faster Aha!

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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. These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. Next is the opportunity space.

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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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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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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. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Free trial?

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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

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 Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

What parts of the system design will be addressed? This is especially valuable for large systems that contain many different parts. This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Example of pain points that offline shopper experiences.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This approach focuses on understanding customer needs, generating quality ideas, and turning those ideas into real value. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run. Staying Close to Customers A big part of successful innovation is keeping a close connection with customers.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product. Sad but true.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

What if you could get into your user’s brain? Unfortunately, that technology isn’t here yet, so UX research tools are the next best thing. This article will highlight 23 of the best UX research tools available in 2024. Would you have a better understanding of how they interact with your product?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 29, 2021

Customers want to be heard. Product feedback is the ideal way to hear from specific customers and understand their needs before they move to one of your competitors. Proactively gathering feedback allows you to quickly identify and solve their pain points. What is product feedback?

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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. How do we know when a pain point is worth pursuing?

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Userpilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Left unaddressed, customer communication pain points can cause dissatisfaction and eventual churn. We cover: Types of customer pain points. How to identify customer pain points. Six common customer pain points. In-app support strategies to eliminate them.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

Since the pandemic, consumer habits have really changed – shoppers have migrated online en masse, their expectations are higher than ever, and brand loyalty is harder to maintain. Yes, product and pricing are still important ingredients – but, a great customer experience is the secret sauce (chef’s kiss).

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

In an article published by Barclays customers are looking for ways to spend more wisely to offset growing living costs. We can create systems that gently sway judgments and match actions with long-term objectives to combatthis. Some apps reward users with bonus interest or cashback for consistent savings contributions.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Finally, your SaaS mobile app is live! But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. Organic, when you attract users through public platforms and owned media marketing.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This summer, our team looked at how COVID-19 has impacted mobile app usage patterns by industry. Key findings from our research include: Looking at DAU over time is the best way to understand drastic changes in app usage. For apps in the hardest-hit industries, DAU is down 60-75%. Higher frequency of app usage.

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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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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

A PM may receive help from specialists in the organization such as Researchers, Project Managers, Product Marketing etc. As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., Specialist PM Roles.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Simplify security • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer discovery, and set up a repeatable sales motion on the way to their first $1M ARR.

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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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