This document discusses continuous validation, which involves validating a product idea at each stage of development through techniques like customer interviews, surveys, prototypes and minimum viable products. It emphasizes validating the problem before building a solution by gathering customer feedback to ensure the solution solves a real problem. It also provides tips for quickly building low-fidelity prototypes using tools like Keynote to validate concepts before investing heavily in development and discusses how to gather useful feedback with low friction by keeping surveys and feedback simple.
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10. Surveys
Group your market into common problem areas
User Story Mapping
Map out user 鍖ow and solve the biggest pain point
Customer Interviews
Identify common pain-points and underlying problems
12. Give them $100
Force the prioritisation question on your customers
Sell before you build
Market your solution as it were built using a landing page
Interviews & Surveys
Engage your customers and aggregate their perspective
24. Build a user interface Flatpack
http://atlss.in/AUIFlatpack
25. Per-user extensions
Great for visual prototypes, quick DOM manipulation,
dialogs, prompts, JS-based changes...
Quick and easy to hack up
HTML + CSS + JS and youre done
User-speci鍖c extensions (Speakeasy)
http://developer.atlassian.com/display/SPEAK
29. Faking it: A recipeKeynote Edition
1 Make your base
Take a screenshot with the main screen(s) you want to work with,
paste in Keynote.
2 Mix & match keynote goodness
Use pre-prepared some ready-to-use dialogs, menus, buttons... all in
Keynote ready to to mix in with your recipe.
3 Apply desired icing on top
Link parts of the screen, transition slides show screen 鍖ows, animate
to show interaction... its all up to you!
30. Build a toolbox
Create a visual library of your product components, consider a
JavaScript framework or prototype in Keynote or PowerPoint.
Its okay to fake it
Save time and money - validate your concepts, fast.
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Use the right tool
High 鍖delity prototypes are not always what you want.
Choose the right tool for each situation.
36. Easily express yourself
Quick and simple
Rate this feature:
bad
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barrier to entry
Avoid login, reduce the amount of 鍖elds, context
switching...
* required
Make it fun!
Think of how you can incentivise.
PRIZEmovie tix