Product & Design 4 min read
How to predict technology flops
What do all technology flops have in common? They failed to do a job for their customers. If you are…
Product & Design
Our latest thinking on building and designing great products
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The thickness of napkins
What does a napkin tell you about a restaurant? Quite a lot, surprisingly. Study after study shows a strong correlation…
Product & Design 5 min read
Before you plan your product roadmap
Are all your users using all the features in your product? Of course they’re not. Let’s talk about that. When…
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Solving real world problems
When developing new products, we are too focused on technology itself rather than what it will enable. Yet it is…
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Design principles: in-app messaging
We recently released the second generation of a core Intercom feature, in-app messages. Redesigning a core-feature is always high risk,…
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Why does your company exist?
Why does your company exist other than to make money? Many people can’t succinctly answer that question, and that is a…
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Rarely say yes to feature requests
Here’s a simple set of Yes/No questions that you can quickly answer before you add another item to your product roadmap….
Product & Design 4 min read
Growth hacking is bullshit
Step 1: Build a product. Step 2: Release a product. Step 3: Growth Hack your way to success. It all…
Product & Design 4 min read
The blind product manager
Ask any product manager and they will tell you that seeing and talking to their users is critical to success. Yet few walk the walk. They look at analytics or outsource research, but they have never engage in conversations directly. Product managers who don’t talk to their customers are effectively blind.