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Working with Compliance as a Product Manager: A Practical Guide
Let’s talk about working with compliance as a Product Manager. Whether you are a Product Manager or you aspire to be one, you will come across the world of compliance and risk management. This is especially important in industries or domains that require heavy regulation. For example, financial services, healthcare, medicine, food etc. are all…
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Digital Payment Methods in India: UPI, Credit Cards and more
We have come a long way from getting INR 10 cash from our mothers for Parle-G biscuit to making payment with single clicks on our phone. Cash was the only mode of payment in India — until we saw mass adoption of new technology and mobile phones. In India, we see new payment app released almost every…
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Why Amazon’s Kindle is More Than a Device: It’s part of ecosystem
In 2007, Amazon’s Kindle device sold out within few hours of its launch. Since then they have sold millions of devices. But why did Amazon start selling an e-reading device? Especially, they sold those devices at no profit. In 2012, Forbes reported that Jeff Bezos confirmed “we sell the hardware at our cost, so it is break-even on the…
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Micro-interactions in UX and why they exist
Have you ever scrolled through an endless list of years just to find your birth year? It is a minor annoyance but annoyance, nonetheless. We encounter these micro-interactions in digital products every day. On a paper form, you simply write down your date of birth. Why can’t we do the same online? In the real…
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Writing effective Product Release updates to your team
Before transitioning into Product Management, I led a small team of Customer Success Managers. At our company, the Product Manager would send updates when new features and improvements were released. I’d read these emails to identify what was important for my team and our customers. The emails were usually clear. At that time, I focussed…
Maria Martin 