Ensure users are delivered value at every step

Hey folks,

Here are the top 10 things I found worth sharing this week.

1. 1. Did you know that the average checkout flow in 2024 is 5.1 steps long, contains 11.3 form fields, and 22% of users abandon due to complexity? Learn 5 ways to minimize form fields in checkout.
      
      

   2. Take a 13 question UX self-assessment to identify strengths and weaknesses in your UX process.
      
      

   3. PMF for UXers: Striving to urgently find product market fit? Learn how to create a fast customer feedback loop and the four levers of PMF. Explore more tips in this top 10 resource.
      
      

   4. If you’re looking for actionable ways that designers can make an impact outside of Figma, have a look at Artiom Dashinsky’s latest book, Effective Product Designer.
      
      

   5. Get familiar or reacquainted with the AAARRR funnel and KPI tree. As a UX practitioner, think through key user behaviors might be missing from this tree that could measure the value being delivered to customers. Bonus: Double check if you’re using OKRs properly with Avi Siegel.
      
      

   6. Leverage this how-to strategy guide by Corina Stirbu to ensure that you’re adding value at every step of the user journey. See also: Corina’s take on how to create a good product strategy.
      
      

   7. Rethink the startup MVP and build a competitive product. "Today's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It’s not good enough to be first with an idea. You have to out-execute from day 1.”
      
      

   8. There are a ton of actionable business insights and hacks (example) for startup in Natia Kurdadze’s curated library.
      
      

   9. Improve stakeholder conversations around UX maps by elevating a journey map or service blueprint to be interactive with qual research insights and quant data.
      
      

   10. Product for UXers: Pawel Huryn shared a comprehensive learning tree of product management topics and offered all PM templates via Google Drive for free (1, 2, 3). Bonus: 27 free FigJAM PM templates and more PM templates.

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Sincerely,
Gerren