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Simone Thompkins

Subtle Shifts, Major Milestones: Centercode's Email Evolution

Inside Centercode

Go behind-the-scenes of our major email overhaul and get the inside scoop from the developers who worked on the project.

Gamifying Software Development with Centercode's DevJam

Inside Centercode

See how we transformed a disparate set of backlog items into 133 user delights in 3 days with gamified innovation.

Your Year Ahead User Research Checklist

Product Development

Being proactive is easier than being reactive. Check out these questions & tips to make user research a breeze next year.

How to Write Super-Clickable Beta Invite Emails (with Samples!)

Community Management

The benefits of an awesome, highly effective invite are obvious: it allows you to attract and recruit qualified candidates (like customers or potential customers) for your beta, field, UAT, and user testing projects.

How Delta Testing Uses Atomic Habits to Promote Data-Driven Decisions

Product Development

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” This quote from Atomic Habits, by best-selling author and habit expert James Clear, is as true for using customer insight to drive product decision-making as it is for training to run a marathon, not biting your nails, or remembering to unload the dishwasher every night.

Conducting Continuous User Research with Delta Testing

Product Development

What is continuous user research, exactly? We like this definition from Tomer Sharon, head of user research at Goldman Sachs:

How the Pros Run Their Beta Programs

Product Development

So you want to run a beta program — and we're stoked for you! Whether you got here after running a handful of beta tests on your own, or your boss handed the task over to you, the insights you get from beta testing open the door to an incredibly enriching world of customer knowledge and product insight.

How to Keep the Fire Burning in Your Tester Community

Community Management

Relationships require care. And not just in the form of those once-in-a-while grand gestures — though an extra special thank you every now and again never hurts.

The One Little Secret for Optimizing Your Tester Engagement

Test Strategy

Imagine you're running a marathon. At first, you're bursting with energy — you've been waiting for this! You feel like you could run forever!

What Most Teams Don’t Understand About User Testing Metrics

Product Development

Calculating user testing metrics? Avoid this common mistake and learn how to find the 3 metrics that matter most to showing your impact.

How Delta Testing Is Helping Today's Product Managers

Product Development

No one knows what your customers need better than your customers; that's why their feedback has never been more critical to the success of your product.

3 User Testing Program Resolutions (And How to Keep Them)

Product Development

It's the time of year for resolutions: where we dream big about the things we want to do and improvements we want to make in the hopes this year will be better than the last. But as everyone who's two weeks into a diet or exercise routine knows, resolutions are easy to set but difficult to keep — especially when you don't have a system in place for making it happen.

Centercode's 2021 Content Roundup

Product Development

After 2020 and a year defined by upheaval, 2021 has been all about recovery and progress: shedding what doesn't work, strengthening what does, and reimagining possibilities in a world with a new outlook and new demands for the future.

Ask the Expert: Should You Run User Tests Over the Holidays?

Test Strategy

Should you plan to launch a user testing project over the holidays? In this installment of Ask the Expert, Centercode's Sr. Test Manager Mike Fine talks about the oft-debated holiday test launch: when it works, when it doesn't, and what you should expect from your testers.

Getting Attitudinal Data During Development With Delta Testing

Product Development

Just like there are many ways to collect attitudinal data, there are different moments when data about your customers' thoughts, opinions, and attitudes comes into play during product development. But how do you get this data?

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