Kapi Pe Charcha #004 – Venture Highway
“Do I need to set up a team, raise money and build a fully functional product to validate my ideas?”
Building a product is costly.
One can spend months setting up a team, raising money and creating a product that has a high chance of failure. One needs a method to short-circuit the time-consuming development cycle and learn even before launching anything.
Enter – Design Sprints.
The Design Sprint framework provides a structured way to validate ideas quickly, gather user feedback, and iterate on designs to create successful products.
Suppose we had an idea to build a dating app for pet lovers. This is how we could use the steps of Design Sprint to validate this idea:
Define the challenge: Clearly state the problem you’re trying to solve and the target audience for your app. For example: “We want to create a dating app for pet owners to help them find compatible partners who share their love for animals.”
Gather inspiration: Collect data, do research, and get input from potential users to better understand their needs and preferences. This could involve surveying pet owners to learn about their dating habits and preferences and their experiences with existing dating apps.
Create solutions: Use your gathered information to generate ideas for your app. This could involve sketching out potential user flows, creating wireframes, or building rough prototypes to test with users.
Test with users: Use the prototype to conduct user testing, gathering feedback and input from potential users to validate your idea. This could involve conducting user interviews (https://lnkd.in/dHdft3x7).
Review and iterate: After testing with users, review the feedback and data you’ve gathered and use it to make improvements and iterate on your design. This could involve making changes to the user interface, adding new features, or even starting the design process from scratch if necessary.
If nothing else – you would not spend months building a dating app for pet lovers and quickly move on to your next idea: a dating app for MCU fans!