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Low-Budget User Testing

The Founder’s Guide to Testing for €0 TL;DR: How to validate your product without a research teamThe Problem: Founders skip research because they think it costs €15K+.The Solution: Interview 5 users (3 active, 2 churned) are using behavioral questions.The Tools: Use a free stack (Zoom, Google Docs, Loom).The Result: Identify 80% of usability issues in […]

User Research Ordered Too Late

You Commissioned User Research After the Build and Nothing Changed When Good Research Goes Nowhere Picture a scene that plays out in product teams every week. The numbers are down. The team sits around a table trying to agree on why. Conversion has slipped. Activation is stalling. Someone says, “We need to talk to our […]

Is it a user Retention or user Activation problem?

Your Retention Problem Is an Activation Problem You Haven’t Diagnosed Retention rarely breaks where teams think it does. When churn spikes in month two, most companies respond with retention tactics: Usually, you add lifecycle emails, schedule check-in calls, assign customer success managers, and try to increase re-engagement. The response feels rational. If users are leaving, […]

Better UX isn’t a solution

Why “Better UX” Won’t Fix your product? In meliorar, we’ve watched millions of dollars in venture capital get poured into “polishing” features that should have been killed in the cradle. We saw brilliant teams executing flawlessly on the wrong things. That’s why we developed the SPIT Framework. It isn’t a design checklist; it’s a filter […]