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Pain point

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCore term

In software engineering, pain point means: A specific problem, frustration or obstacle that users experience, such as a confusing step, a long wait or a missing feature.

In Turkish: sorunlu nokta, sıkıntı noktası, pain point

How it is used

Heard in research readouts, journey maps and product meetings: 'the biggest pain point is delivery tracking'. Teams identify, uncover and address pain points. The term is common in sales and marketing too.

Example sentences

  1. The main pain point in our interviews was the long sign-up form.

  2. This feature addresses a real pain point for small shop owners.

Common collocations

  • identify pain points
  • address a pain point
  • key pain point
  • customer pain points
  • personaA fictional but realistic profile of a typical user, built from research, with a name, goals, needs and frustrations, that helps a team design for real people.

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