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Found 19 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.
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.
Systematically explore what customers are trying to accomplish (functional, social, emotional jobs), the pains they experience, and the gains they seek. Use this framework to uncover unmet needs, vali
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.
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.
Day 2 end capstone move of a Foundation Sprint. Compresses the sprint's full strategic frame into a single canonical sentence (the Founding Hypothesis) plus an assumption scorecard, why-we-believe, what-could-prove-us-wrong, and recommended next validation step. Use after Magic Lenses is signed. Strict canonical template; paraphrase is not accepted in v0.1.0. The Founding Hypothesis is the spine artifact the sprint exists to produce.
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.
Use when validating product assumptions before building, discovering unmet user needs, understanding customer problems and workflows, testing concepts or positioning, researching target markets, identifying jobs-to-be-done and hiring triggers, uncovering pain points and workarounds, or when users mention user research, customer interviews, surveys, discovery interviews, validation studies, or voice of customer.
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.
Run a structured 5-day process to prototype, test, and validate product ideas with real users. Use when the user mentions "design sprint", "validate in a week", "rapid prototype", "test with users", or "de-risk before building". Covers mapping, sketching, deciding, prototyping, and testing. For ongoing experimentation, see lean-startup. For customer job analysis, see jobs-to-be-done. Trigger with 'design', 'sprint'.
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'.