Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Venture
Design
Workshop I
Achieving
Customer
Relevance
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AGENDA
Period Deliverables
Venture Design I: Achieving
Customer Relevance
Personas
Problem Scenarios-Alternatives-Value Propositions
Start Business Model Canvas
Storyboards
Customer Discovery
Venture Design II: Iterating to
Success
Venture Planning- focal hypotheses, experiments, and minimum
viable product
Venture Design III: Focusing &
Validating Venture Progress
Review of eld work, renements of approach, planning next
steps.
Venture Design IV: Engineering
Your Business Model
Detailing your business model and remaining focal assumptions.
Venture Design V: Designing the
Right Product
Pairing your learnings on personas & hypotheses with high
quality, actionable inputs (stories & wireframes) for product
development and product validation.
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PRODUCT IDEAS?
ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
Do you have a
product idea you
can use?
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PRODUCT IDEA: ENABLE QUIZ
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PRODUCT IDEA: WEDOTHAT
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PRODUCT IDEA: MY LETTER, MY STORY
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Personas
ITS A PROCESS
Some techniques are more effective than others.
But they all require substantial, consistent exertion.
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
VENTURE DESIGN
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
Experiment Learn
Hypothesize
Lean Startup-
Style Assumptions
VENTURE DESIGN
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
Business Model
Canvas
Experiment Learn
Hypothesize
Lean Startup-
Style Assumptions
VENTURE DESIGN
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
User Stories &
Test Cases
Business Model
Canvas
Experiment Learn
Hypothesize
Lean Startup-
Style Assumptions
VENTURE DESIGN
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
Product &
Promotion
User Stories &
Test Cases
Business Model
Canvas
Experiment Learn
Hypothesize
Lean Startup-
Style Assumptions
VENTURE DESIGN
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
VENTURE DESIGN
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ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
THE FULL STACK PRODUCT PERSON
Specialties
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Foundation
Skills
LEAN
DESIGN
THINKING
CUSTOMER
DEV.
AGILE
Technical
Literacy
ARCHITECTURE
FUNDAMENTALS
App. & Platform
Integration
ROLES &
SYSTEMS
In a Technical
Team
SOFTWARE
FUNDAMENTALS
Model-View-
Controller
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ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
WHY IS DESIGN THINKING HARD?
Design Thinking
Now
Survival
Then
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Empathy Creativity
DESIGN THINKING
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ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
DESIGN THINKING- APPLICATIONS
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Entry 1
Urinate as they go 2
Edges preferred 3
Speedy 4
PB > cheese
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Empathy
DESIGN THINKING- APPLICATIONS
ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
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Check & Repair
UV Validation
Relevant Placement
A Better Mouse Trap
Powered by Better Bait
Creativity
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DESIGN THINKING- APPLICATIONS
ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
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Foundation in
Design Thinking
DESIGN THINKING- PERSONAS
Personas Problem Scenarios
Alternatives
Your Value Propositions
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DESIGN THINKING- PERSONAS
ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
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DESIGN THINKING- PERSONAS
ALEX COWAN
AlexanderCowan.com
@cowanSF
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NOT A GOOD PERSONA
Women
Age 28-45
Has kids
Socialize with other moms
Online with Facebook
86% said theyd like to be more
organized
70% said theyd use an
application that organizes them
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Women
Age 28-45
Has kids
Socialize with other moms
Online with Facebook
86% said theyd like to be more
organized
70% said theyd use an
application that organizes them
NOT A GOOD PERSONA
Bullet points are almost
never vivid or detailed
Stock photo- not real
This is a huge
population- not exact
These responses are fake
actionable- survey responses
like this are unreliable
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THE ART OF CUSTOMER DISCOVERY
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A BETTER PERSONA
Mary is a mom by choice. She had a successful career in accounting,
but welcomed the opportunity to be a stay at home mom. She loves it.
But its not like having kids purged her creative, social instincts. She
wants to connect, she wants to learn, she wants to interact. Being a
mom is a job and she wants to do it well. That means corresponding
with other moms on child education and keeping track of what works.
She posts to Facebook at least twice a week and responds to other
moms items more often than that.
She has a few blogs and publications she reads regularly
Mary the Mom
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A BETTER PERSONA
the use of a rst name helps
w/ vividness (a little)
these full sentences look like a
good start towards something
vivid and detailed
this is a real photo of a
relevant person taken with an
iPhone in the real world
Mary is a mom by choice. She had a successful career in accounting,
but welcomed the opportunity to be a stay at home mom. She loves it.
But its not like having kids purged her creative, social instincts. She
wants to connect, she wants to learn, she wants to interact. Being a
mom is a job and she wants to do it well. That means corresponding
with other moms on child education and keeping track of what works.
She posts to Facebook at least twice a week and responds to other
moms items more often than that.
She has a few blogs and publications she reads regularly
Mary the Mom
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A LITTLE GAME FOR BETTER PERSONA DISCOVERY
Day in the Life
we look at a few photos for a given persona
you make some guesses about them
there are no right answers BUT
there is a right process: observe and infer
OBJECTIVE: get a feel for whats real; start to create something vivid
(not a full picture, just snippets)
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OUR PERSONA
Sally the
Single Mom
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WAKE UP!
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WAKE UP!
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GEARING UP FOR THE DAY
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AT WORK
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AFTER WORK
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PRE-BED
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BED
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GEAR
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IF I HAD 3 EXTRA HOURS
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ABOUT SALLY THE SINGLE MOM
Whats her favorite kind of music?
Band/composer?
Where did she buy their last pair of shoes?
What movie did she last see?
What did she drink with dinner last night?
If she had a dog, what kind?
Whats her favorite magazine?
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EXERCISE- PERSONA CREATION
Mary the Working Mom
Susan the Stay-at-Home Mom
Douglas the Dad
Nathan the Nanny
Ivan the Infant