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💥 We'll say it loudly for the people in the back: think before you build! 💥 Friends of ASquared will know we’re big fans of the Lean Startup Method by #EricReis. The tried-and-tested approach puts value creation first, before the expense of product development. However, we speak to a lot of startup founders who are beyond the ‘gauge interest’ stage and are ready to create a product. Great! They have a solid idea with real interest, but are not sure what to do next. Whilst there’s a myriad of options, here’s our winning combination that is truly tried and tested: ➡ understand your target audience’s needs through user research, by speaking to representative users of your future product to identify their challenges and what drives their decisions ➡ explore a potential solution quickly by prototyping the product and testing it directly with users. This could be a clickable prototype where screens are stitched together and act like a real product, or better yet, a fully-working prototype that mimics complex functionality like personalisation and user data ...all before diving into development. A well-made prototype that’s backed by user research can provide invaluable learning, insights and improvements, and massively reduce future risk. 🙋♀️ Need help? Book some time with (legit design hero and our very own Design Director) Jonathan Aizlewood now 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-CCPvSj #ValueCreation #UXDesign #AppPrototyping

𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠.  In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, it's crucial to align your business with the power of Information Technology. The increasing engagement of your audience with IT necessitates a proactive approach to stay ahead.  But how do you ensure that your IT endeavors are not just impactful but also deeply rooted in addressing real user needs? Enter Design Thinking—a game-changing problem-solving method that places human needs at the center of innovation. Let's break down the 5 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 and how they seamlessly integrate with the IT world: 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐳𝐞: Dive deep into understanding your users' unique technological needs. Explore their experiences, challenges, and preferences to create IT solutions that truly resonate. 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞: Channel your tech-savvy eye to precisely define IT challenges. Uncover the nuances that require tech-powered solutions, laying the groundwork for accurate problem-solving. 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞: Embrace innovation in the world of IT. Cultivate an environment that fosters the flow of tech-driven ideas. Encourage collaborative brainstorming that harnesses diverse technical perspectives. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Transform these innovative ideas into tangible IT prototypes. Craft interactive models that vividly showcase how technology can tackle complex problems head-on. 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭: The digital realm thrives on testing and validation. Put your tech solutions through rigorous real-world scenarios, ensuring they hold up within the dynamic digital landscape. The beauty of Design Thinking lies in its adaptability beyond IT projects alone. Its principles effortlessly merge with our daily tech interactions—whether it's refining a coding approach, optimizing a user interface, or architecting intricate IT systems. At its core, Design Thinking prioritizes user-centric tech solutions. Incorporating user feedback and IT insights ensures that your innovations holistically address the right technological challenges. This approach guarantees success and also nurtures a deeper understanding of the user-tech interplay.  Are you ready to take your business on a transformative journey? Utilize the Power of Design Thinking, where technology meets empathy, innovation, and user-centricity. Let's shape the future of IT together!  let's connect and discuss more on it. #DesignThinking #ITInnovation #UserCentricity #DigitalTransformation #startups #business #etherealsoftech

Are You Taking the Right Approach to Product-Market Fit? The key to creating a product people love is mastering the art of product discovery. Product discovery keeps your focus on deeply understanding customer needs and designing solutions that provide a great user experience. This reduces risk by validating ideas before investing resources, ensuring efficient utilization. It also promotes informed decision-making aligned with business goals, steering the team toward achieving PMF by solving real customer problems in a viable market. It's a process of: 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 🔸 Learning and understanding 🔸 Defining and deciding 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🔸 Ideating and prioritizing 🔸 Prototyping and testing Through tools and methods like: 🔸 Customer interviews and feedback 🔸 User and product testing 🔸 Competitor analysis 🔸 User journey mapping 🔸 Product analytics While owned by the product manager, product discovery requires collaboration across teams— because everyone is responsible for the customer experience. Who owns product discovery in your startup? 💬 Dive deeper into PMF with our Idea Validation playbook: https://lnkd.in/e7pwR2gA #Startups #Tech #Ideas #Success #Innovation

One of the most valuable tools for anybody who is building a product (founders, product managers, designers) are user flow diagrams. I first learned these from Tamara Adlin 15 years ago. They’ve stood the test of time and now they’re proving valuable to make AI useful for people.  They capture the essence of customer discovery, the steps that your customers go through to finish the job to be done that your product helps them with. They help align your team around a common understanding of what your business does. They are a great tool for collaborative sessions to get things from inside people’s heads out in the open where they can be talked about and decisions can be made that are visible to everyone involved. They let you separate user behavior from features, ideas, and questions. They give you a framework for incorporating AI into your product in a way that doesn’t just slap an AI button on top of everything but actually makes sense for your users. They form the basis for your product strategy and your user experience. The are the backbone that makes sure you’re not wasting time and money on building the wrong things. I’ll be talking more about them in my upcoming workshop at Venture Mechanics Startup Incubator / Accelerator’s Hackathon this Sunday. The link to the event is in the comments and I’ll be posting more about it this week. Stay tuned! The example below is for movie goers. I choose it because most everybody is familiar with it. I’ve used this approach for social networking, media, web 3.0, SaaS, medical collaboration, and many other types of businesses. If you’re interested in talking more, let’s chat. Calendly link in the comments as well.  #startups #uxdesign #productmanagement #uxstrategy #productstrategy #teamalignment #collaboration #ideation

🌟 Ready to Get Hands-On in Developing Your New Product? Our Process is Perfect for You! Are you tired of feeling like your product development process is out of control? Are you struggling with: ❓ Lack of clarity on your product's direction and features? 📞 Poor communication and misalignment with your development team? 🕒 Delays and cost overruns during the development process? 🚀 Launching a product that doesn't meet your vision or customer needs? Our DAWPS process is designed to immerse you in every stage, ensuring your vision is brought to life with precision and care. We include stakeholders at each step to ensure their inputs and feedback are incorporated. Introducing DAWPS: D - Decide: We conduct thorough research and collect data from stakeholders to decide your product's direction and features. A - Analyze: Our experts dive deep into market research, feasibility analysis, and data analysis, stakeholders and persona creation to refine your product strategy and design a robust architecture. W - Wireframe: Our designers create detailed user flows & wireframes with stakeholders, visualizing the user interface and experience. P - Prototyping: Interactive prototypes are developed and shared with stakeholders to test with end users and validate ideas before full-scale development. S - Ship: Our engineering team develop & launches your product with rigorous user testing and precision, ensuring stakeholder feedback is incorporated. 📊 Did you know? Our DAWPS process can save you up to 30% in development costs and reduce time-to-market by 25%! Learn more about how our collaborative approach can benefit your product development journey. Ready to bring your vision to life? 🌟 Schedule a consultation with our team today and let's get started! www.neebal.com #ProductDevelopment #Innovation #TechProcess #DAWPS #Productinnovation #Innovativesolution #ITSolution #BFSI #Fintech #EduTech #HealthTech #Startups #Founders #CIO #Prototyping #ProductLaunch #DevelopmentProcess #NeebalTechnologies #CollaborativeDesign #ProductSuccess

Digital design is never done. 💭 Next time you are stressed and not quite happy with what you released don’t worry so much! The great thing about working in digital is that you should always get the chance to iterate and improve your product and features. Actually the Lean Startup movement encourages quick releases and continual upgrades based on user feedback. Just don’t forget to build, measure and learn 🚀 🔄 😃 Check out some of the principles here: https://lnkd.in/eHRnd_Ky #ux #ui #productmanagement #productdesign #digital #design #startups #leanstartup

⏫ 𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐕𝐏 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 ⏫ At Zeratus Consulting, we understand that the cornerstone of any successful MVP is not just great ideas but also robust user feedback. Integrating user insights effectively can transform the trajectory of your startup's product. 🔍 In our latest Medium article, we explore practical strategies for incorporating user feedback into the MVP development process. From identifying the right users to engaging with them constructively, we provide actionable tips that can make your MVP more responsive to market needs. 👉 Discover how to leverage user feedback to refine your MVP: [https://lnkd.in/dGgCJ6jk] 👉 More about: [https://www.zeratus.com/] #MVP #UserFeedback #StartupSuccess #ZeratusConsulting #Innovation #TechStartups

Imagine that you come up with a brilliant product idea & you start wondering - 1️⃣ 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭?  2️⃣ 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫?  3️⃣ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭? 📢 Here's where the concept of 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 comes in. 𝐈𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐚-𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬. Your next immediate thought would be "𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 & 𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐕𝐏❓". 💡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: This is the bare-bones version. Think of it as a sneak peek, not the finished product. 💡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Building on the pretotype's insights, you can now create a more detailed version with some functionality. This is your prototype. 💡 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐕𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 (𝐌𝐕𝐏): The MVP is the usable version with core functionality for a price. Users can pay and experience the core functionality, but the experience may not be perfect yet. Alberto Savoia, in his book "𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐈𝐭" shares a fascinating case study from IBM's history. At the time when speech recognition was a futuristic dream, they envisioned a revolutionary text-to-speech machine. Instead of diving headfirst into development, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 – 𝐚 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦! Users who used this machine loved the error-free transcription, but unforeseen usability issues arose. Their throats became sore from extended dictation, and the noisy process demanded a dedicated workspace. This experiment exposed critical user experience flaws, 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 IBM 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡. 🎯 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 & 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧. Pretotyping lets you gather valuable user insights at the very beginning of your product development journey. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐕𝐏. Embrace the power of a rough and simple pretotype to validate your idea to guide your product's direction, functionality, and ultimately, its success. #rethinksystems #productmanagement #nextleap #productdevelopment #founders #startups

✨ When diving into the exciting journey of creating a new product, one pivotal stage takes the spotlight: Prototyping! 🎯 Prototyping is the remarkable process of bringing your product vision to life in tangible form. and here's why it matters: 👉🏻After creating a working model, you can test your product in real life. Test drive your design! Before production, you can spot and fix any issues. 👉🏻Prototyping is your runway! It shows how your product looks in person from all angles. You can improve design flaws, including size, shape, and aesthetics to boost product performance. 👉🏻 Focus on the User! Create a physical model to see how users interact with it. Imagine being backstage at a concert, watching the audience. Any usability issues? Fix! This creates a great user experience, making your product a customer favorite. 👉🏻 Prototyping promotes innovation. Your objective is to create something unique that fulfills your consumers' startup ambitions. At EZInnovation, we truly understand the value of a tangible prototype above all else. Click the link 🔗 in our bio, and let's start for yours together! 🙌 . . . #userexperience #technology #growthmindset  #innovation #productmanagement #designthinking #marketresearch #dataanalytics #productdevelopment #startups