Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ). We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey. It can be in social value – and this is how we won.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Through market research, she discovered her ideal customers weren’t whom she initially expected. The service attracted a surprisingly diverse customer base, ranging from 16 to 85 years old, including professionals across various industries – from sales executives to pastors.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Customer pain points are important to reveal when you want to improve product engagement and grow fast. If you can fix customers’ pain points, you’ll be well on your way to improving their overall customer experience. In this article, we’ll cover: What are customer pain points?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2020

Today, customer expectations are at an all-time high. A proactive customer support approach is the key to regaining control. But this approach not only overwhelms your team, it also means customers frequently have to wait hours or even days to get the help they need. What is proactive customer support?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks.

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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. But over time, customer needs evolved. I will discuss why in just a second.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [6:08] What tools or processes do you use for customer research? It’s our job to fix those problems for the customer.

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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

According to Jeff Gothelf , Lean Startup emphasizes making assumptions about your target market, testing them with rapid prototypes, and iterating based on customer feedback. However, the pressure to jump from customer research straight into a solution can lead you down the wrong path. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Where will you compete: which customer segments, which categories, which channels? Then, we use the four actions framework to analyze which factors are served or fulfilled beyond customer demands, and where the customer expects better service and we have an opportunity to create a new value curve. Where will you play?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company. The product and the engineering team did not get the opportunity to conduct a feasibility study. The concessions, that paid a premium, received a customized presence on the kiosk.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These are the customer needs, pain points, and desires that, if addressed, will drive your desired outcome. This is how we’ll evaluate which solutions will help us best create customer value in a way that drives business value. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. But this isn’t Agile. Nor is it continuous.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

As customers expect more and more out of support experiences, support leaders can risk burnout on their team to meet the escalating demand. But even for larger teams, an influx of customer questions can overload agents, leaving them frustrated and overworked, and in turn, not able to provide great support.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Great e-commerce experiences for customers are built on speedy responses, instantaneous gratification, and convenience – this is no easy feat to provide. Sense their frustration?

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

He also works with design and leadership on the medium-term strategic space, helping decide and define future initiatives that will unlock value for their customers and prospects. This can create a false sense of familiarity, so Steve says they need to be intentional to avoid making assumptions about their users. Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

As you study the people who use your product or might use it, patterns start to emerge. 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. Why bring this up?

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. No ifs, no buts.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 22, 2021

Product adoption is a key piece of any successful customer acquisition strategy or onboarding program. Understanding how, when, and why (or why not) customers become power users or high-value customers can drive ROI, inform future product roadmap decisions, and lower customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2021

The challenges facing customer support leaders are more complex than ever. They need to be able to balance efficiency with a great customer experience , meet rising customer expectations , and keep team morale high , all while ensuring that they don’t blow through their budget or burn out their team. The results?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The feelings customers take away from an experience with your company are far more important than any “response time” metric. This applies not only to conversations a customer may have with your sales or support teams, but even when they’re not talking to you at all – such as when they’re on your help center , searching for answers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Customer insights enable SaaS teams to understand them better and build products that satisfy their genuine needs. From the article, you’ll learn about different kinds of customer insights (from product analytics and only) and the benefits of gathering them. Let’s dive right in! Book the demo to find out how!

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It guides product managers through the complex landscape of what customers need, want, and how they behave. It’s important because it helps uncover what customers need and want, even if they don’t know it themselves. These sessions could reveal unexpected pain points in current tools and spark ideas for innovative features.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Looking for real-life customer-led marketing examples that worked to get inspiration for your own campaigns? TL;DR Customer-led marketing is a strategy that puts the customer at the center of all marketing efforts, making their pain points , behaviors, and feedback the driving force behind decisions.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We thought about how we could shift that to a more positive experience and cut down on pain points. ” Make sure all those pieces are tight—you understand what you’re selling, the typical emotion, who your customers are, and how they find your product. It takes a long time to create documentation.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today, numerous studies echo this sentiment: a recent report from Forrester found that brands with a superior customer experience bring in 5.7 And a recent study from Deloitte found that two-thirds of customers will switch brands entirely due to a poor customer experience. times more revenue than their competitors.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

In a recent survey, our team let us know design career paths and advancement were pain points. For example, here are two expectations we had in the old version of our job levels: Be recognized as an expert in the broad domain of customer communications inside and outside of Intercom. Invent the future of interaction design.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 24, 2021

But at these pivotal moments, it’s just as important to prioritize your customer support strategy as it is to plan your product roadmap or your next big marketing campaign. With that in mind, here are three questions to ask when you want your customer support to grow with you – and some best practices to ensure it does.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This spotlight represents your active customers who are reaching out with their feedback and requests. And customer requests are easy to pay attention to; for any mature company, there will be plenty of them. The problem with spotlight vision is that it can lead to a skewed understanding of the customer base as a whole.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Salespersons would understand their customers’ needs and preferences and match them with the most suitable products from the inventory. about brands, product pricing, and customer reviews?—?have Retailers could leverage IoT to improve the supply chain, increase revenue streams, improve customer experience, and gain much more.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. A CRM for Product.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

TimeTrek: Crafting a Time-Travel Experience — UX Case Study Imagine if you could travel to any time and place on earth. This was an assignment provided to me so I thought why not make a case study out of it. Brief To build an experience for the users to discover a time & place and book a time travel trip on the mobile app.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2022

C ustomer experience (CX), or consumer experience, is the result of every interaction or touchpoint a customer has with your brand – both with your people and your products. . Think of CX as each moment of engagement along the customer journey. What is a customer service experience?

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