good stuff - product tricks

Good Stuff is our fortnightly blog posts with goodies, freebies, resources, and reading for product stakeholders who want to learn and grow beyond the obvious.

Magic is the word as this week’s?good stuff?covers five tricks successful products use to surge ahead of their competition, increase user-engagement, created stronger brand and upped conversion, and build great designs that do the business. This stuff is?gooood!

Are you a product designer, product manager, or owner interested in:

• creating fundamental differentiators,
• delightful experiences, and
• better user engagement?

abracadabra...????

How to create fundamental differentiation?

The Most Advanced Yet Acceptable (MAYA) Products Win!

Do you ever wonder:

• Why Apple’s wearables worked, yet Google Glass failed,
• What made ChatGPT much bigger success right off-the-bat than OpenAI’s other experiments,
• How to strike the right balance between the novel and the familiar in design

Patrick Morgan explains how The Most Advanced Yet Acceptable products surge ahead of their competition:

The Most Advanced Yet Acceptable Products Win

How to increase retention and user engagement

Duolingo iOS Widgets

How Duolingo experimented with their iOS widget and created a distinct, on-brand element that elevated their retention.

The marketing virality that comes with this experiment is a bonus.

Duolingo’s iOS widgets

How to create stickiness of experience by pushing the boundaries?

Duolingo brings characters to life with Rive

Duolingo is easily one of the most unique products ever. their world-building & storytelling are not just pinnacle of gamifications, they are legit games.

here’s how they added animation to their character designs using?rive:

(disclaimer: rive fans)

World Character Visemes

How to design smooth motion experiences?

What are some more fundamental design details of interaction design, so core that they are invisible until you really pay attention?

Rauno Freiberg captures in this mind-blowing essay.

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

what have you found recently?

What product and design resources have you found lately? Tell us in comments!

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