Have you been using Slack and felt unproductive at the end of the day? You are not alone.
There has been a huge debate about whether modern workspace communication tools like Slack are improving the productivity of an employee or not. In my opinion, these tools do impact productivity if people are not mindful of how they are spending their time on a workday. In this article, I discuss how Slack can make small changes in its user experience to improve the productivity of its users and help them get more things done.
#1 Integrating Slack notifications with your calendar
Every time you receive a notification, it’s like someone coming up to your desk and interrupting you. There’s always a sudden urge to respond to…
Product teams need to continuously monitor their product usage data to understand the user pain points and iteratively improve the product experience. As a product manager, you need to have tools that improve visibility, make it easier for the team to comprehend, and derive actionable insights from the product data. A few months ago, I wrote an article that outlined the process of building tools to enable that for your team. I’d highly recommend reading that article as well, but here is the summary:
- Identify your product assumptions. …
In an ideal world, the goal of any business starting up is to make money. In most cases, the profitability of a product is closely tied to how you as a product manager choose to price your product. Apart from building a product that provides real value to its customers, profitable monetization is the second most important aspect of running a successful business.
Even then pricing gets very little attention and not a subject of major discussion or debate. Products are very often priced by taking into account production costs plus some margin or by looking at what competitors are…
Product Managers (PM) are responsible for the growth of the product from the very first day. If the product succeeds, the whole product team gets the credit but if it fails, the PM takes complete responsibility for its failure. In this drive to make their product successful, PMs need to spend a lot of time with their product to make it simple and valuable for their users. Every new feature, product improvement, re-design, or bug fix changes your product in some way for the user. With each passing day, you as a PM become so habitual of using your own…
Product managers indeed work at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience. Lisa Jewell mentioned in her article that UX is one of the most critical function of a PM’s job. Still most of the people who are starting their careers as product managers are MBA graduates with no experience in UX and design unless they come from a design background or have pursued a specialized program/certification in product management.
And hence, the first challenge is most of the product managers learn UX design while they are on the job and it takes time to build credibility before the…
Early stages of product development are one of the most exciting times to be a part of the company as a product manager. One of the most important factors that drive the growth and success of the product is how quickly it acquires a large and loyal base of customers. You want these customers to use your product as frequently as possible with minimum friction. To achieve that, you need to continuously monitor the product usage data to identify the user pain points and improve the product experience incrementally to help them find maximum value from your product.
But is…
