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Design Your Way to Product/Market

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Rachleff's Corollary of Startup Success via pmarca.com

The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit.

Could you get to product/market fit in one week?

IMG COPENHAGEN

16 week Lean Launchpad

class in 1 week

THEY DID IT

A PLAN FOR TUITION

What makes designers effective?

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION

Photo: woodleywonderworks

DESIGNERSTHINK WITH…

HANDS

POST-ITS

WALLS

•Frees up memory•Allows you to see connections•Share insights & understanding

You can get insights for

product/market fit with 3

techniques

1. FRAGMENTINGAND FREELISTING

Why?Make information modular in order to recombine

EXERCISE•Get out your post its• List everything you like about travel• 1 item per post-it

EXERCISE•Get out your post its• List everything you HATE about travel• 1 item per post-it

2. CHUNKINGINTO AFFINITY GROUPS

How?•Put idea with like ideas•No rules, just seek patterns• remix

Play with possible modelsRelationship to other data

Credit: Steve Portigal

Play with possible models

Frequency

Credit: Steve Portigal

Play with possible models

Timeline

Credit: Steve Portigal

Play with possible modelsThe 2 x 2

Credit: Steve Portigal

Example: PAIN/GAIN matrix• Get out the pain/gain matrix• TOGETHER with a neighbor, map post-its against the matrix

PATTERNS?

OPPORTUNITIES?

Why?Discover unexpected insights in the data

Photo credit Eirik Newth

3. MAPPING TO FRAMEWORKS

What is a framework?A scaffold for thinking about a problem

How?• Select a framework•Map post-its against it•Do more research/freelisting to fill in blanks

Discover hidden patterns

Why Frameworks?

Photo credit Marc Phu

Why Frameworks?Find missing areas of inquiry and fill them in.

Photo credit Marc Phu

EMPATHY MAPAdrian Howard https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianhoward/8710477211/in/photolist-9zsm7U-9zsoeo-9zsmo3-9zpnNe-aKVQVM-ob4zF5-5wrz1p-egHtpz-9zpqGM-9zsooJ-9zspTN-9zpqa2-9zspL9-9zskPA-9zskZd-bJ5qVx-opHAHj-psEPoY-c3gTjN-ebVuVA-9H7uru-ebPQrT-egHuq4-77aN2N-brpNWc

MORE FRAMEWORKS

FOR YOU

MENTAL MODELS

User needs go here

Offerings goes here Opportunitie

s!

Credit: Indi Young

Photo credit: Indi Young

PARTICIPATORY ROADMAP

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You know this one…

Freelist your points

Chunk them into themes

Map them to a story arc!

Photo taken at Duarte Workshop

Your meeting?

Get up! Use the walls!

Photo credit: Kevin Hoffman

Remember1. Fragmenting +2. Chunking +3. Mapping

= INSIGHTS!

Learn More:Classes BooksTHE CREATIVE FOUNDERAt Stanford CE. & General Assemb.lyhttp://www.eleganthack.com/category/speaking/ for more info

THANK YOU@CWODTKE

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