


This would really give you the full picture what might have delighted these users so much that your product was the winner for them. Ideally, the process will be a combination of analysing customer data points coming from tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel, Heap or another, AND then conducting 1:1 interviews with a few of your power users. It’s extremely important to not force this step, some products just don’t have clearly defined Aha! moments and pushing the process in the wrong direction might have negative consequences for your product. Focus on analysing the real actions of your users.

The challenge in this step is to avoid biases and assumptions that come from your gut feel. Remember – you’re looking for patterns, not for interesting points raised by individual users. The task here is to identify what features or part of your offering make your power users come back and why they have chosen your product.ĭepending on the size of your userbase and the tools you’re using, this could be automated or you can conduct in-depth qualitative research.Īs a rule of thumb, you’d be looking for behavioural patterns of your power users – what did they do differently from the users who churned? Is there a particular action they took or a section they visited that made them come back again? Or is there a particular need they had that the other users didn’t? Step 2 – Find behavioural patterns that relate to retention The segmentation filters here vary from product to product, but you’re basically looking for your “evangelists” who use your product on a daily/weekly basis to serve their needs. To do this, you can use a survey to find out the people who’d be “very disappointed” if your product disappears tomorrow, or rely on your customer data and create a segment with your most active users. Unlike in typical UX where you’d be looking for loopholes in the user journeys to help you improve the product, discovering your Aha! moment starts with identifying your power users and what they love about your product. Let’s look at the process of identifying your Aha! moment step by step: For service businesses, this could be an extremely well-organised and communicated process/delivery framework that differentiates them from their competitors.Īs you can see from the examples above, the Aha! moment could be very different from product to product and things get more challenging when it differs for different user segments.

