Take your product’s quality to the moon

You may have heard that we reference “Product Quality” quite a bit here at unitQ. We believe quality is more than just product experience, it’s the entire surface area of a company. It’s also a characteristic that will become more instrumental for business success in the coming years. As its prominence is rising across different industries, let’s talk about how teams can take their product’s quality to the moon. 

Meet Product Expectations

The key is making sure the product works as expected. When someone is using a product, they have an expectation that things should work in a certain way. If there’s a disconnect with what’s expected with any product, it will cause dissatisfaction and ultimately churn. To prevent this from happening, the best place for businesses to start is leveraging user feedback data. The user base has almost complete test coverage as they interact with the product and its features everyday. If businesses can capture the data, extract actionable insights, and ensure the right information reaches the right person at the right time — they’ll empower their teams to take a data-driven approach to product quality and stay ahead of the competition.

Stay Laser Focused on Mission-Critical Insights

Many teams struggle with the manual and resource-intensive process of gathering and analyzing user feedback. There’s daily feedback to continuously comb through across multiple sources and across many different languages. In addition, users have various ways of articulating their experiences. The best way to overcome this challenge is finding an interface that can decipher the key insights and remove the noise. Once teams have that component established, they can begin to understand what needs to be fixed and build to drive superior product quality and experience.

Differentiate with Product Quality 

Companies can buy traffic, create feature differentiators, launch new things, but all these efforts are in vain if they’re not providing the best experience for their users. For example, if they’re spending money on advertising to drive traffic and users are met with a subpar product experience, users will turn away and the spend would be inefficient. If companies focus more efforts on holding themselves accountable to provide the best user experience, they’ll spend budget more efficiently, see really impactful results, and avoid churn.

Retain Users with Quality

Retention is growth. If you build a product that can retain users with high engagement and high conversion, then growth will come. Getting users to show up is the easy part, the hard part is keeping them around, and product quality has a huge impact on how long they’ll stay. Staying on top of product quality will allow you to squeeze more juice out of the lemon and make every marketing dollar you spend count.

What Doesn’t Get Measured Doesn’t Improve

Leadership needs to be able to measure things in a clear and measurable way in order to set goals and drive better outcomes for their users and, in turn, their company. When I talk with senior leadership teams and board members, I often ask: “How do you measure product quality?” The consensus was they didn’t have a metric. Now they do with the unitQ Score — the first product quality metric that helps businesses find and fix the right issues fast, deliver superior product quality and experience, and drive retention and growth.

Christian Wiklund is unitQ CEO