design your way to product/market fit

Design Your Way to

Product/Market Fit

@cwodtkewww.eleganthack.com

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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

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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. FRAGMENTING

AND 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 models

Relationship to other data

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Play with possible models

Frequency

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Play with possible models

Timeline

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Play with possible models

The 2 x 2

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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

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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?

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Why Frameworks?

Find missing areas of inquiry and fill them in.

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EMPATHY MAP

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MORE FRAMEWORKS FOR YOU

MENTAL MODELS

User needs go here

Offerings goes here Opportunities!

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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!

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Your meeting?

Get up! Use the walls!

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Remember

1. Fragmenting +

2. Chunking +

3. Mapping

= INSIGHTS!

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