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The Power of Prototyping: Why Wireframing, Customer Testing, and Mockups are Critical to Product Development

The Power of Prototyping: Why Wireframing, Customer Testing, and Mockups are Critical to Product Development

by Aaron Kesler | Apr 2, 2023 | New Product Manager, Product Management Process, Validation

In the second step of Validation, let’s discuss prototyping, wireframing, and mockups. Now, these don’t come all simultaneously, but it’s good to group them together to help us define and differentiate them since these terms are often used...
Validation 1: Impact & feasibility and the true meaning of MVP (minimum valuable product)

Validation 1: Impact & feasibility and the true meaning of MVP (minimum valuable product)

by Aaron Kesler | Mar 21, 2022 | Product Management Process, Validation

Before I dive into the crux of this article, I want to be clear about this new phase in the product management process: we’re going to be jumping around more than usual here. Validation could also be called rapid experimentation. The goal of Validation is to...
Discovery 5: Capture these 5 traits to create the most useful and simplest user persona

Discovery 5: Capture these 5 traits to create the most useful and simplest user persona

by Aaron Kesler | Feb 7, 2022 | Discovery, Product Management Process

At this point, we’ve discovered a few problems, formed our trios, come up with our hypotheses, and recently interviewed a bunch of customers (or potential customers). Now we understand some of these customers, what their pain points are, and have possibly started to...
Discovery 4: Utilize a hypothesis to effectively interview your customer

Discovery 4: Utilize a hypothesis to effectively interview your customer

by Aaron Kesler | Jan 31, 2022 | Discovery, Product Management Process

So now that we have our product trios and our hypotheses we can interview some current customers or potential customers. In this article, I’ll give you all of the tactics I use in a customer interview. If you’ve never interviewed a customer before or if the company...
Discovery 2: The Product Trio. Unleash the strengths of product management, engineering and design

Discovery 2: The Product Trio. Unleash the strengths of product management, engineering and design

by Aaron Kesler | Jan 17, 2022 | Discovery, New Product Manager, Product Management Process

When we talk about the “Product Trio” what we’re really talking about is risk, de-risking that is. I’ve seen many companies with a variation of either the product manager and product designer, the product manager and engineer, or in very few cases (luckily) the...
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