Product Strategy ·
Don't Outsource Your Product Thinking to AI
AI can tell us what customers are saying. But can it tell us what they really need?
Anders Toxboe
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Product Strategy ·
The Wizard of Oz Experiment Has a New Wizard: AI
AI can scale your experiment to 1,000 customers. But can it scale what you learn?
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Evaluating Onboarding Experiences
How to evaluate whether onboarding helped users reach value, reduce effort, change behavior, and reveal the missing condition
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Designing for Return
A practical design perspective on helping returning customers identify their current objective, start something new, reuse proven approaches, and connect their needs with the right product capabilities...
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
The Business Model of Enough
How to build products that deliver on their value promise, allow customers to finish, and create sustainable business value through trust, voluntary return, and solving the real...
Anders Toxboe
Behavioral Design ·
Not Every KPI Should Be Maximized
Designing KPIs with a definition of “enough”
Anders Toxboe
Strategy ·
Strategy Has a Restart Problem
Why organizations keep rebuilding direction instead of keeping strategic understanding alive
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Onboarding as a product-led growth multiplier
How inviting, sharing, collaboration, and team adoption can turn individual onboarding value into shared product-led growth
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Guided Interaction in User Onboarding
How to provide the right level of onboarding guidance without creating dependence
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Onboarding Users to AI Products Through Trust, Control, and Calibration
Where traditional onboarding focuses on helping users discover value, onboarding to AI products should focus on helping users reproduce value.
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
The End of Static Onboarding
How GenAI can help onboarding systems respond to user context in real time.
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
A Behavioral Model of User Onboarding
Why onboarding succeeds when motivation, capability, and context align in the user’s current moment.
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
User Onboarding and the Shortest Path to Action
How onboarding reduces friction, times commitments, and helps users follow through
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
User Onboarding and the Shift From Repeat Use to Habit
How onboarding evolves from driving return to shaping habits over time
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
User Onboarding and the Moment It Clicks
Why the first experience of value defines activation and shapes onboarding
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
User Onboarding Starts Before the Product
Why selling the outcome early shapes activation and retention
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
AI-Assisted Coding Is Fast, But Structure Still Moves Slow.
You Still Need Both
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Why Large Product Teams Create Fragmented Experiences
Rethinking the Product Operating Model: From Siloed Journeys to Cohesive Platforms
Anders Toxboe
Product Strategy ·
Stop Designing Paths. Start Designing Platforms
How platform thinking can unlock user mastery and sustained value
Anders Toxboe
Product Management ·
Early decisions are better than later
Why early, frequent decisions beat perfect plans that drift into delay
Anders Toxboe
Experimentation ·
Is Lean Startup too lean for day one?
New research suggests data-driven methods boost performance only after a startup’s business model is clear. Early-stage founders may need a solid theory of value before turning to...
Anders Toxboe
Product Management ·
Development speed is becoming a commodity
As AI reshapes how we build software, development speed is no longer the bottleneck. The real differentiators are now clarity, adaptability, and decision-making.
Anders Toxboe
Business Models ·
When should product teams test their Business Model?
Many teams assume revenue will follow naturally once they build a product that people love - only to discover too late that the market will not pay,...
Anders Toxboe
Psychology ·
Nudges are stepping stones, not a destination
Nudges are overrated. Discover why bold system design—not tweaks—is the key to real behavior change.
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