Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025This is when product managers wake up to the fact that they have all these user researchers sitting around day-drinking, and run after them for help. But instead of research, they need help with something called "validation" which is where we prove we were actually right all along. 1764
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Since we do not care what, if any, problem we are solving, validation is the perfect tool. "Find us a story that proves us right." There are various names for this. @miniver.bsky.social calls it decision-based evidence making. Wikipedia calls it Morton's Fork. Either way it's malpractice. 1878
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Astute readers might ask - if not from research, how does the initial thing being built actually get defined? I'm glad you asked. Items get onto the roadmap through a process called "ideation" which is when product managers think up things that would sound cool in a case study on their LinkedIn.uxdesign.ccStop inventing product problems; start solving customer problemsLow-performing teams choose problems based on what they’d like to solve rather than what their customers need. 1739