Episode Details

Up until recently Miro was the innovator’s defacto collaboration platform. In recent years a long list of apps added similar functionality to eat away at the online whiteboard segment. Our latest episode with Ioana Teleanu, Miro’s former Lead Product Designer for AI explores the challenges and opportunities of leveraging AI to enhance an existing product.

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Key takeaways:

* When a product experience is already good, do we need to add AI?

* AI makes it easier for more products to enter your category and add unexpected competition

* Adding AI forces product teams to ship quickly to be able to learn, sometimes with uncertainty attached

* You must consider if AI is the right solution to the problem you’re trying to solve

If you have any questions about these or other AI questions, reach out to us and we can help you upack what it means for your product.

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