Startup Toolkit for R&D

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Startup R&D ToolkitNOEW 2016

Darshil Vora Yakaira Nunez

Sr. Product Designer Principal User Researcher

@darshilv @DigEthno

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We are not going to

• Sell anything

• Learn how to do research!

• Learn to Design!

• Provide deep explanation of tools and methods used for research and design.

Basic ProcessWe have 30 minutes let’s dive right into it!

VALIDATEDoes it work the way we want it to?

Does it need improvement?

PROBLEM FRAMING

What do customers do/want/need?

BRAINSTORMING

SOLUTIONSHow might we enable that?

BUILDING EXPERIMENTSWhich tactics are working?

Product Phases

All products generally go through 5 phases, startups usually need these 4.

Let’s find out how to leverage Research and Design in each one!

VALIDATIONBUILDING EXPERIMENTSBRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONSPROBLEM FRAMING

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What do our customers need

(or want)?

How should we think about the

competitive landscape?

What problem should we solve?

Pull reports on cases

Pull reports on feature usage

Subject matter expert interviews

Competitive analysis

Review Forrester trends

Secondary research

Behavioral models

User Mental Models

UX success metrics

Design briefs

Trends Reports

Customer Segmentations

How might we differentiate from

competitors?

What new features might we

offer?

What would we do if resources

weren’t a constraint?

Customer Feedback

UI comparisons

Modes/motivation matrices

Co-Creation exercises

Design Studio/Workshops

Sketchy concepts

Storyboards

Concept systems

Are we on the right track?

Which approaches are

working

Does preference vary by

customer segment? Why?

Customer Feedback

Preference Tests

UI Pattern Alignment

Heuristic Review

Tree Tests

Accessibility Reviews

RITE Usability Tests

Invision prototypes

Keynote animations

HTML clickable protos

QU

ES

TIO

NS

Process Summary (Research and

Design)(It’s cyclical and not perfectly linear, but you get the idea)

Did we move the needle?

Are there usability issues

we can further assuage

through non-structural

changes?

Usage Metrics

AppStore Reviews

Customer Feedback

Eye tracking

Unmoderated click tests

Videos to “prove it” to

stakeholders.

Identification of

outstanding issues

Recommendations

for changes

Heuristic triage

Problem Framing

What is 5+5?

What two numbers add up to 10?

7 + 3

-10 + 20

Sqrt(100) + 0

Sqrt(2) + 8.6

Stormboard – online white boarding

Concept Board – online white boarding, collaboration, project management etc.

QUESTIONS METHODS DELIVERABLES

Pull reports on cases

Pull reports on feature usage

Subject matter expert

interviews

Competitive analysis

Review Forrester trends

Secondary research

Behavioral models

User Mental Models

UX success metrics

Design briefs

Trends Reports

Customer Segmentations

What do our customers need

(or want)?

How should we think about

the competitive landscape?

What should we build?

Different techniques to help with problem framing

VALIDATIONBUILDING EXPERIMENTSBRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONSPROBLEM FRAMING

Brainstorming Solutions

Brainstorming Solutions

Tip 1: Establish a Common Language

Tip 2: Save Judgment for later

Tip 3: Quantity over Quality

Some Exercises

Circles!

The Love Letter and Break-Up letter

Reverse Brainstorming

“how do we achieve this result?” flip and ask “how do we not want to achieve this result?”

Association Game

Build on each others ideas, can be performed as a written exercise as well

QUESTIONS METHODS DELIVERABLES

Customer Feedback

UI comparisons

Modes/motivation matrices

Co-Creation exercises

Design Studio/Workshops

Sketchy concepts

Storyboards

Concept systems

How might we differentiate

from competitors?

What new features might we

offer?

VALIDATIONBUILDING EXPERIMENTSBRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONSPROBLEM FRAMING

• A-Z Ideation tools

• OpenIdeo Ideation Tools

• Innovators Toolkit

• Hyper Island Toolbox

Resources

Experimentation

Tip 1: Quick, Cheap and Easy!

Tip 2: Make your friends go through the flow

Tip 3: Repeat!

Advanced Tools

Pros

• Desktop and Mobile

• Click throughs

• Collaboration

• Organization

Cons

• Advanced interactions not

handled well

Advanced Tools

Pros

• Easy to learn and use

Cons

• Only mobile prototypes

• No collaboration

HTML, CSS, JS Prototypes

Pros

• Very close to the real product

• Easy to test with users

Cons

• Longer times depending on

existing resources

• Skilled resources

QUESTIONS METHODS DELIVERABLES

Customer Feedback

Preference Tests

UI Pattern Alignment

Heuristic Review

Tree Tests

Accessibility Reviews

RITE Usability Tests

Invision prototypes

Keynote animations

HTML clickable prototypes

Flinto mobile prototypes

Are we on the right track?

Which approaches are working

best?

Does preference vary by

customer segment? Why?

VALIDATIONBUILDING EXPERIMENTSBRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONSPROBLEM FRAMING

A really good book on building prototypes by Dan Roam

VALIDATION

In Person

Online: VerifyApp

Pros

• Preference Tests

• Cheaper in comparison

Cons

• Advanced interactions not

handled well

Other Online Tools

Pros

• Can work with any experiment

design

• Provides recruiting options

Cons

• Expensive! $$$

• Learning curve is high

Google Analytics

PIWIK

Optimizely

Mixpanel (mobile)

QUESTIONS METHODS DELIVERABLES

Eye tracking

Unmoderated click tests

Instrumentation usage data

CogTool

AppStore Reviews

Customer Feedback

Heuristic triage

Efficiency assessments

Identification of outstanding

issues

Recommendations for changes

Are there pain-points we can

assuage?

Did we move the needle?

Did our changes have impact?

VALIDATIONBUILDING EXPERIMENTSBRAINSTORMING SOLUTIONSPROBLEM FRAMING

Just Enough Research by Erika Hall is wonderful short book with direct

applicable guidance on how to get Research going in startups.

thank y u

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