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Found 18 Skills
Design Sprint methodology based on Jake Knapp's "Sprint" (Google Ventures). Use when you need to: (1) validate product ideas in 5 days instead of months, (2) rapidly prototype and test solutions, (3) answer critical business questions quickly, (4) align teams on product direction, (5) de-risk product development before building, (6) test multiple concepts with real users, (7) make fast strategic decisions through structured process.
Help users conduct effective usability testing. Use when someone is planning user tests, designing prototype validation, preparing usability studies, or trying to understand why users struggle with their product.
Design lean startup experiments (pretotypes) for a new product. Creates XYZ hypotheses and suggests low-effort validation methods like landing pages, explainer videos, and pre-orders. Use when validating a new product idea, creating pretotypes, or testing market demand.
Talk to customers without leading them using Mom Test rules: discuss their life not your idea, ask about specifics in the past, and talk less. Use when the user mentions "customer interviews", "validate my idea", "users say they want it but don't buy", "leading questions", or "The Mom Test". Covers commitment and advancement, avoiding compliments, and extracting signal from noise. For product-market fit, see jobs-to-be-done. For rapid prototype testing, see design-sprint.
Apply Lean Startup methodology — Build-Measure-Learn loop, MVP, validated learning, and pivot decisions. Use this skill when the user is launching a new product or startup and needs to validate ideas quickly, design an MVP, decide whether to pivot or persevere, or reduce wasted effort on unvalidated assumptions — even if they say 'should we build this', 'how do we test this idea', 'when should we pivot', or 'we're burning cash with no traction'.
Assumption mapping and product hypothesis testing frameworks for validating product ideas.
Define a Proof of Life (PoL) probe—a lightweight validation artifact that surfaces harsh truths before expensive development. Use it to test hypotheses with minimal investment.
Design and conduct user research using interviews, focus groups, surveys, and field observation. Use this skill when the user needs to understand customer needs, validate product assumptions, gather qualitative insights, or design a research study — even if they say 'we need to talk to users', 'how do we validate this idea', or 'what do our customers actually think'.
Designs an A/B test or experiment with clear hypothesis, variants, success metrics, sample size, and duration. Use when planning experiments to validate product changes or test hypotheses.
Use when asked to "run a design sprint", "5-day sprint", "prototype in a week", "test ideas before building", or "Jake Knapp sprint". Helps teams go from problem to tested prototype in five days. The Design Sprint framework (created by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures) compresses months of work into one focused week.
Plan, run, and synthesize usability tests and produce a Usability Test Pack (test plan, tasks/script, logistics, notes template, issue log, findings + recommendations). Use for usability test, user test, prototype test, user testing, usability study, Wizard of Oz, fake door.
Help users run effective customer discovery conversations and extract actionable insights. Use when someone is preparing for user research, planning discovery interviews, writing interview questions, analyzing findings, validating problems, understanding customer behavior, or trying to learn what customers actually want. Triggers include mentions of "customer interviews", "user research", "discovery calls", "talking to customers", "validating ideas", "customer conversations", "problem validation", or questions about what to ask customers.