Mixpanel's Custom Buckets feature exemplifies the company's effort to balance power and usability in product design, offering a user-friendly yet powerful tool for segmenting data. This feature simplifies the complex task of creating new user segments from existing ones, such as grouping countries into "Spanish Speaking Countries," making it accessible for both expert and novice users. The development of Custom Buckets arose from the need to improve upon the low adoption rates of the previous Custom Properties feature, which was powerful but not widely used due to its complexity. By focusing on user feedback and streamlining key elements, Mixpanel successfully democratized access to advanced data analysis, achieving a sixfold increase in adoption compared to its predecessor. This example underscores Mixpanel's broader commitment to creating analytics tools that are both powerful and easy to use, thus empowering a wider range of users to gain insights and make informed decisions.