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21CTO
21CTO
Jan 23, 2016 · Product Management

Why Early Developer Involvement Is the Key to Successful Product Management

The article argues that involving developers, designers, and operations from the start of product planning improves communication, catches design flaws early, and prevents costly delays, while urging product managers to question every feature, maintain logical rigor, and lead by example to earn engineers' respect.

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Why Early Developer Involvement Is the Key to Successful Product Management
Meiyou UED
Meiyou UED
Jan 20, 2016 · Product Management

Unlocking User Delight: How the KANO Model Guides Product Requirement Decisions

Learn how the KANO model, a Japanese product‑quality framework, categorizes features into must‑be, one‑dimensional, attractive and other types, and discover practical steps—questionnaires, Better‑Worse metrics, and analysis techniques—to prioritize and improve user satisfaction in product development.

Better-Worse metricRequirement Analysisproduct management
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Unlocking User Delight: How the KANO Model Guides Product Requirement Decisions
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 22, 2015 · User Experience Design

How to Build a Great Developer Experience (DX) for Your APIs

This article explains why developer experience matters for API products, defines DX, outlines empathy‑driven principles, and provides concrete guidelines—clear documentation, easy onboarding, robust debugging tools, supportive channels, and community‑focused practices—to help API designers create more appealing and competitive services.

API DesignDeveloper RelationsUX
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How to Build a Great Developer Experience (DX) for Your APIs
DevOps
DevOps
Dec 20, 2015 · Fundamentals

Understanding Quality: Definitions, Perspectives, and Discussion

The article examines various viewpoints on product quality, critiques common misconceptions about warranties and consumer expectations, presents formal definitions from Wikipedia and business dictionaries, and reflects on how quality management integrates meeting requirements, standards, and continuous improvement in both software and broader industries.

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Understanding Quality: Definitions, Perspectives, and Discussion
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 16, 2015 · Product Management

How Tencent Mobile Manager Reached 100M Daily Users: Product Management Secrets

The article recounts former 21CTO product director Zeng Xing’s 11‑year journey at Tencent Mobile Manager, detailing how relentless user research, data‑driven insights, micro‑innovation, and crowd‑sourced features transformed the app from a modest 1.0 release into a billion‑user security platform with daily active users exceeding 100 million.

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How Tencent Mobile Manager Reached 100M Daily Users: Product Management Secrets
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 4, 2015 · R&D Management

Inside Facebook’s Growth Team: How Engineering Drives User Explosion

The article reveals the inner workings of Facebook’s Growth Team, detailing its data‑driven culture, organizational structure, key leaders, and engineering‑focused strategies that have propelled the platform to billions of active users, offering a rare behind‑the‑scenes look.

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Inside Facebook’s Growth Team: How Engineering Drives User Explosion
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 2, 2015 · Product Management

Bridging the Gap: Practical Strategies for Product Managers and Developers to Collaborate Effectively

This article shares seasoned product‑manager insights on preventing and resolving friction with developers by preparing for requirement changes, improving code reusability, allocating buffer time, understanding requirements, communicating with data, and providing clear, detailed specifications.

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Bridging the Gap: Practical Strategies for Product Managers and Developers to Collaborate Effectively
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 29, 2015 · Product Management

How Ma Huateng Turns Core Capabilities into Legendary Product Reputation

In this speech, Ma Huateng shares practical insights on product design, emphasizing extreme focus on core capabilities, building reputation through high‑end user experience, and adopting a sensitive, operation‑driven management style to continuously refine and differentiate products.

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How Ma Huateng Turns Core Capabilities into Legendary Product Reputation
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 20, 2015 · Operations

How Meituan Scaled Its Supply‑Chain Platform from Manual to Multi‑Business Automation

This article details Meituan's supply‑chain system evolution—from its early manual processes to a highly automated, multi‑business platform—highlighting architectural redesign, dynamic forms, and product‑center structures that enabled rapid scaling and diversified service support.

Platform engineeringautomationoperations
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How Meituan Scaled Its Supply‑Chain Platform from Manual to Multi‑Business Automation
Practical DevOps Architecture
Practical DevOps Architecture
Nov 16, 2015 · Operations

Internet Operations Framework: Acquisition, Retention, Conversion, and Activation

This article outlines a comprehensive internet operations framework that covers the four essential stages—acquisition, retention, conversion, and activation—detailing practical strategies for attracting users, keeping them engaged, encouraging purchases, and fostering ongoing activity through various marketing channels and user‑experience improvements.

User AcquisitionUser Retentiongrowth marketing
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Internet Operations Framework: Acquisition, Retention, Conversion, and Activation
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 7, 2015 · Product Management

10 Proven Growth Lessons from the Fastest‑Scaling Unicorn Startups

This article distills ten common growth principles uncovered from interviews and research on fast‑growing tech unicorns such as Uber, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Evernote, offering actionable insights on product focus, continuous scaling, data‑driven decisions, niche targeting, and cross‑functional teamwork for startups.

Growth HackingUser Acquisitionproduct management
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10 Proven Growth Lessons from the Fastest‑Scaling Unicorn Startups
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 1, 2015 · Product Management

What Makes an Error Dialog Truly Helpful? Lessons from Apple and Windows

This article examines why many error dialogs frustrate users, outlines Apple’s human‑interface guidelines for clear notifications, critiques real‑world examples from Windows Phone, Google Chrome and Twitter, and distills three essential principles for designing useful, user‑friendly error messages.

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What Makes an Error Dialog Truly Helpful? Lessons from Apple and Windows
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 30, 2015 · Product Management

Who Will Become the Next BAT? Analyzing the Rise of China’s New Internet Giants

The article examines the surge in mentions of a "next BAT" in Chinese internet discussions, outlines three analytical indicators—resource flow, trend alignment, and competitive scale—and evaluates mobile, big‑data, and millennial trends to identify emerging companies poised to dominate the market.

Artificial IntelligenceChinese techinternet market analysis
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Who Will Become the Next BAT? Analyzing the Rise of China’s New Internet Giants
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 29, 2015 · Product Management

What Are Facebook’s 4 Core Principles for Building Powerful B2B Tools?

This article shares Facebook’s four design principles for B2B products—helping users grow, balancing efficiency with effectiveness, turning complexity into simplicity, and delivering precise predictions—illustrated with real‑world examples, A/B test results, and the evolution of their advertising platform.

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What Are Facebook’s 4 Core Principles for Building Powerful B2B Tools?
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 23, 2015 · Product Management

How to Overcome Product Manager Career Anxiety and Accelerate Growth

This article explores the root causes of career anxiety for product managers, analyzes surface and deep factors, and offers practical strategies, mindset shifts, and a competency model to help professionals navigate industry pressures, improve skills, and achieve sustainable career development.

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How to Overcome Product Manager Career Anxiety and Accelerate Growth
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Sep 9, 2015 · R&D Management

Improving Communication Between Engineers and Product Managers: Insights from Nicholas C. Zakas

The article examines why software engineers are often seen as hard to communicate with, shares Nicholas C. Zakas' experiences and analogies, and offers practical advice such as involving engineers early, minimizing interruptions, granting creative space, and providing timely appreciation to foster better collaboration.

R&D ManagementTeam Collaborationcommunication
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Improving Communication Between Engineers and Product Managers: Insights from Nicholas C. Zakas
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 8, 2015 · Product Management

How Zhang Xiaolong Turned WeChat into a Product Empire – Lessons from the Lonely Artist

The article chronicles Zhang Xiaolong’s evolution from a solitary programmer behind Foxmail to the visionary product leader who shaped WeChat, highlighting his artistic mindset, relentless focus on user experience, and the delicate balance between product purity and commercial pressures.

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How Zhang Xiaolong Turned WeChat into a Product Empire – Lessons from the Lonely Artist
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 4, 2015 · Product Management

How Airbnb Turned Three Struggling Renters into a $25.5B Sharing Economy Giant

This article chronicles how three financially strapped friends transformed a simple room‑rental idea into Airbnb, a $25.5 billion global platform, detailing their early challenges, Y Combinator acceleration, rapid growth strategies, and the broader impact on the sharing economy.

AirbnbBusiness CaseSharing Economy
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How Airbnb Turned Three Struggling Renters into a $25.5B Sharing Economy Giant
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Jul 24, 2015 · Product Management

Evaluating the Business Value of APIs: Practical and Usable API Strategies

This article examines how APIs create commercial opportunities by assessing data applicability, accuracy, and accessibility, illustrating the concepts with case studies from Amazon, Twilio, and other industries, and provides a practical guide for building useful and usable APIs that drive business growth.

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Evaluating the Business Value of APIs: Practical and Usable API Strategies
Architect
Architect
Jul 12, 2015 · Backend Development

Evolution and Architecture of Meituan's Supply Chain System

The article describes Meituan's supply chain platform evolution from a manual, low‑volume system to a highly automated, multi‑business supporting architecture, detailing its stages, modular product center design, and the platform‑plus‑differentiation approach that enables rapid scaling across various services.

Backend DevelopmentMeituanproduct management
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Evolution and Architecture of Meituan's Supply Chain System
JD.com Experience Design Center
JD.com Experience Design Center
May 6, 2015 · Product Management

How to Pinpoint Target Users Throughout a Product’s Lifecycle

This article explains how to combine backend analytics and user research techniques—such as questionnaires and deep‑interview simulations—to identify and refine target user groups at every stage of a product’s lifecycle, providing practical metrics and actionable insights.

Product Lifecycledata analyticsproduct management
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How to Pinpoint Target Users Throughout a Product’s Lifecycle
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
Dec 26, 2014 · Industry Insights

Bug or Feature? Rethinking the Bug‑vs‑Feature Request Debate

The article examines why distinguishing bugs from feature requests is often futile, using a Visual Studio default‑font issue as a case study, and argues for focusing on constructive feedback rather than semantic arguments in software development.

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Bug or Feature? Rethinking the Bug‑vs‑Feature Request Debate
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Dec 15, 2014 · Product Management

Essential UI Design Best Practices for Enhancing User Experience

This article compiles a comprehensive list of practical UI design guidelines—ranging from full‑width layouts and clear benefit statements to consistent interactive states, progressive onboarding, and performance optimizations—aimed at improving conversion rates, usability, and overall user satisfaction.

Design Tipsproduct managementuser experience
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Essential UI Design Best Practices for Enhancing User Experience
Suning Design
Suning Design
Nov 26, 2014 · Product Management

How to Create Effective Product Design Documentation: A Practical Guide

This article outlines why product documentation matters beyond maintenance, presents a stage‑by‑stage overview of design deliverables, and offers actionable principles and methods—such as design sprints, stakeholder interviews, and roadmap prioritization—to keep documentation aligned with user‑centric product development.

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How to Create Effective Product Design Documentation: A Practical Guide
We-Design
We-Design
Nov 3, 2014 · Frontend Development

How We Revamped the WeChat Open Platform’s Visual Design for Better Developer Experience

This article details the visual redesign of the WeChat Open Platform, explaining the problems of over‑layered navigation and inconsistent branding, the design decisions made to simplify hierarchy, unify style with other WeChat sites, improve typography, and the ongoing work needed for responsiveness and retina support.

FrontendOpen PlatformUI/UX
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How We Revamped the WeChat Open Platform’s Visual Design for Better Developer Experience
Suning Design
Suning Design
Oct 31, 2014 · Product Management

Soft vs. Hard: Uncovering the Hidden Thresholds of User Demand Analysis

This article explores how product managers split into "soft" and "hard" schools of user demand analysis, outlines the three progressive skill thresholds for each approach, and argues that mastering both sides is essential for truly understanding and meeting user needs.

demand analysishard skillsproduct management
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Soft vs. Hard: Uncovering the Hidden Thresholds of User Demand Analysis
Suning Design
Suning Design
Jul 16, 2014 · Product Management

How Qiongyou Built a Decade-Long Travel Community and Mobile Powerhouse

Over ten years, Qiongyou evolved from a modest travel forum into China's most influential outbound travel community, leveraging user‑generated content, structured guide products, mobile app integration, and strategic partnerships to create a data‑driven ecosystem that fuels both user engagement and revenue.

Content StrategyMobile AppPartnership
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How Qiongyou Built a Decade-Long Travel Community and Mobile Powerhouse
Suning Design
Suning Design
Jun 17, 2014 · Product Management

Decoding Product Manager Jargon: Essential Terms Every Designer Should Know

This article demystifies common product‑manager terminology—from PD vs. PM and blue‑ocean vs. red‑ocean strategies to C2C models, entry barriers, PDD, CRUD, PDCA, KPI, and MVP—providing designers with a concise reference to improve cross‑functional communication.

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Decoding Product Manager Jargon: Essential Terms Every Designer Should Know
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 14, 2014 · Product Management

How to Bridge the Gap Between Designers and Product Managers: Proven Communication Strategies

Effective communication between designers and product managers is essential to avoid costly misunderstandings; this article explores common obstacles, the roles of each party, and a four‑step framework—listen, diagnose, analyze, solve—to achieve clear, collaborative outcomes and smoother design processes.

Design ProcessUX designcollaboration
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How to Bridge the Gap Between Designers and Product Managers: Proven Communication Strategies
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 29, 2014 · Product Management

What Are the Core UED Design Processes Used by Top Chinese Tech Companies?

This article summarizes the diverse UED design principles and workflows shared by designers from leading Chinese companies such as Tencent, Baidu, and FaceUI, highlighting key steps, collaboration tactics, management tools, and continuous improvement practices for effective product design.

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What Are the Core UED Design Processes Used by Top Chinese Tech Companies?
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 29, 2014 · Product Management

Boost Team Creativity with Brainwriting: A Practical Guide

Brainwriting, a written brainstorming technique, lets participants generate and build on ideas simultaneously, offering a scalable, low‑cost alternative to traditional brainstorming that reduces anxiety, saves time, and often yields more creative solutions for product teams and organizations.

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Boost Team Creativity with Brainwriting: A Practical Guide
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 23, 2014 · Product Management

How to Conduct Efficient Multi‑Platform Usability Testing

When a product spans phones, tablets, PCs and web, traditional single‑platform usability testing falls short, so this guide explains the conditions, benefits, and step‑by‑step strategies for planning, executing, and reporting usability tests across multiple platforms simultaneously.

UX Researchmulti‑platformproduct management
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How to Conduct Efficient Multi‑Platform Usability Testing
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 12, 2014 · Product Management

When Design Standards Backfire: How to Adapt Them for Better Products

The article explores how standards boost efficiency and consistency across industries and web design, but warns that blindly applying them can harm user experience, illustrating the need to adapt standards to specific contexts such as UI components, product strategy, and multilingual signage.

design standardsproduct managementstandardization
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When Design Standards Backfire: How to Adapt Them for Better Products
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 12, 2014 · Product Management

What Books Should Aspiring Product Managers Read? A Curated Guide

This article shares a curated reading list and resource guide for product managers, explaining how personal mindset, industry knowledge, strategic insight, interaction design, and fresh perspectives shape effective product leadership and recommending specific books, reports, podcasts, and platforms to explore.

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What Books Should Aspiring Product Managers Read? A Curated Guide
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 8, 2014 · Product Management

Mastering Cross-Team Communication: Proven Tips for Product Managers

This article outlines the product manager’s role as a communication hub across leaders, design, engineering, and operations, detailing each project phase, common challenges, and practical techniques—such as focusing on product goals and respecting professional expertise—to enhance collaboration and reduce rework.

EngineeringTeam Collaborationcommunication
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Mastering Cross-Team Communication: Proven Tips for Product Managers
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 4, 2014 · Product Management

Mastering UI Design: Why Priority, Consistency, and Feeling Matter

This article explores three essential UI design principles—priority, consistency, and feeling—explaining how they guide user decisions, reduce cognitive load, and create a satisfying experience, while offering practical tips for product designers and managers.

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Mastering UI Design: Why Priority, Consistency, and Feeling Matter
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 2, 2014 · Product Management

How to Conduct Effective Competitive Analysis for Product Managers

This guide explains why competitive analysis is essential for product strategy, outlines how to identify competitors, where to gather reliable data, which key metrics to collect, and which analytical frameworks—such as SWOT, Kano, and the Boston matrix—can turn insights into actionable product decisions.

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How to Conduct Effective Competitive Analysis for Product Managers
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 1, 2014 · Product Management

Mastering Demand Analysis: Turning User Needs into Product Features

This article explains the demand‑analysis process, visualized as a Y‑model that converts user needs into product features through iterative Why‑How questioning, illustrates the method with a drill‑buying story, and shows how product positioning and Maslow’s hierarchy shape the final solution.

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Mastering Demand Analysis: Turning User Needs into Product Features
Suning Design
Suning Design
Mar 28, 2014 · Product Management

How Interaction Designers Can Master Data Analysis for Better Design Decisions

This guide explains how interaction designers can systematically collect, analyze, and apply data—clarifying purpose, understanding sources, using core analytical methods, communicating results, and avoiding common pitfalls—to make evidence‑driven design decisions.

UX Researchdata analysisevidence‑based design
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How Interaction Designers Can Master Data Analysis for Better Design Decisions
Suning Design
Suning Design
Mar 6, 2014 · Product Management

Will Brands Die? How Digital Disruption Is Redefining Brand Strategy

The article argues that while traditional branding paths are being overturned by digital channels, brands are not dying but evolving, with companies like Google and Apple reshaping brand value through product experience, storytelling, and integration into the customer value chain.

Marketing Strategybrandingconsumer behavior
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Will Brands Die? How Digital Disruption Is Redefining Brand Strategy