Product Sense Pushups: Purchase Intent — E-commerce Checkout by aribarb December 5, 2025 I first looked at Amazon. Their checkout flow is designed around speed and minimal friction because their core business priority is maximizing conversion rate…. Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse by aribarb November 24, 2025 Netflix relies heavily on recommendations to help users find content, because its core value proposition depends on keeping people watching for long stretches of… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies — Customization vs. Automation by aribarb November 24, 2025 Spotify utilizes personalization as it crafts music recommendations for its users, drawing on the previous streaming history to curate the Discover Weekly, the Daily… Continue Reading
BUSINESS: Can One Business Unit Have Two Revenue Models? by aribarb November 19, 2025 Isolde’s Siiquent targeted hospitals and diagnostic labs operating under strict regulation and tight reimbursement structures. Predictably, this business gravitated toward a razor-blade model where… Continue Reading
BUSINESS: Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot? by aribarb November 19, 2025 Should PulsePoint deploy an AI chatbot now or wait? On one hand, the CEO, Jeannie, sees generative AI as an inflection point. Competitors that… Continue Reading
CASE STUDY: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Internship Ethics) by aribarb November 13, 2025 In the article, intern Susan is asked to call competitors while presenting herself as “just an MBA student,” a request that seems small on… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Crisis Management — Error States and Recovery by aribarb November 13, 2025 Slack, Uber, and banking apps each experience failures that look superficially similar, but the business cost of these failures differs dramatically. As a result,… Continue Reading
Product Sense Pushups: Subscription Decisions — Paywall and Upgrade Flows by aribarb November 13, 2025 1. Spotify I am not a Spotify user, so upon downloading the app and logging into an old account, I encountered the time-old “premium… Continue Reading
Green Plate Phase 2 WORK: Milestone – The One-Pager November 13, 2025 Green Plate – One Pager Continue Reading