Research

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What 40 customer interviews taught us about feedback tools

Teams don't lack feedback. They lack a place where it adds up. Notes from the research behind Cadrell.

Naomi Clarke

Design Researcher

Before writing any code we spoke to 40 product and support leaders about how they handle customer requests.

Everyone had feedback

Every team had more feedback than they could read. None of them had a place where it added up to a decision.

Three patterns

Requests lived in the tool of whoever heard them. Nobody trusted vote counts. And customers were almost never told what happened. Cadrell is built around fixing those three.

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Naomi Clarke

Design Researcher

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