The document is from www.productschool.com, which provides online product management training courses and corporate training. It summarizes a talk on building products that clients and end users love. The speaker recommends starting with research, having the right bias towards end users over clients, and following best practices like collecting and using data, adding "delighters" beyond basic features, communicating with users, and going above and beyond for users.
9. Research
The systematic investigation into and study of materials and
sources in order to establish new facts and reach new conclusions.
-Cambridge Dictionary
Building Products that Clients and End Users Love
10. | THE RIGHT BIAS
Different Needs?
End User
Client
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Building a Product Clients and End Users Love
11. | BEST PRACTICES
1. COLLECT AND UTILISE DATA
Data is Everything, Ask Facebook!
Building Products that Clients and End Users Love
12. | BEST PRACTICES
2. ADD DELIGHTERS
Must haves Linear features Delighters
Building Products that Clients and End Users Love
18. Building a Product Clients and End Users Love
| REFERENCES
• https://www.uxbooth.com/articles/discovering-table-stakes-delighters/
• https://www.webretailer.com/lean-commerce/delight-customers-kano-model/#/
• https://blog.hubspot.com/service/above-and-beyond-customer-service
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So, onto today’s talk!! Please welcome Uju, who will talk to us about Building Products that clients and end users love. Thank you so much for being here today, Uju, I’ll let you introduce yourself!
[clap clap clap]
Why was software dev my starting point?
Takeaways
Who is David? And who are David’s customers?
BIAS: inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.
users are now picking the products that they love rather than the ones that were forced on them because switching cost is a lot less. Companies now have to think more about the end user and less about the buyer
Toys
Facebook
Data is information in raw unorganised form, that refer to or represents conditions, ideas, or objects
Benefits
It answers the question : how can we know if we are doing a good job? Intuition does not help so much in this case
It enables you track KPIs
It tells us what we not drop!
Sample data that can be collected
quantitative data (using surveys, user tracking tools firebase, mix panel, amplitude)
Qualitative data (finding the meaning behind the quantitative data through follow up interviews, participant observation, and analysis)
Must have features: Basic product application, adding to carts, delivery
Linear features: (more of these features, more happy but would be mostly more expensive to provider) free delivery, speed of shipping, returns,
Delighters: If there aren’t present, customers would be unhappy, but the add greatly to experience and positive emotions. Customers don’t even expect these or know they exist. E.g 3d view of images, attractive packaging -delivery packages with a bow, a little free gift, Or for a digital app,
Slack’s motivational messages
Ask questions? Speed of upload on instagram? Editing photos on instagram? Higher definition of an image? Pinch zoom on your phone?
Why? The more you speak to someone, the more you fall in love. Absence makes the mind grow fonder does not apply here
Communication channels
email, face to face, in app, letters (yes!)
Regular stakeholder sessions.
The know that you are committed to their success
Users feel that you have their best interest at heart.
Customer complaint for an item they purchased: Just replace it or give them a little something extra for their worries.
Zappos that describes themselves as a service company that happens to sell shoes, created a one-of-a-kind experience that went beyond selling shoes. A customer forgot a favourite pair of shoes when travelling and called their customer service with the hope of buying a new pair. The store did not have another pair at time so they purchased it from another store and hand-delivered it to her at no cost. Of course she was so glad and share the story which went viral. You may not have the resources