Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)

Chelsea Winkel
Chelsea WinkelDesign Facilitation Lead
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
Chelsea Winkel @hirechelsea
Hello, my name is
Design Facilitation Lead at Tallwave
& Roller Derby Ass Kicker
Paul Van Tuyl @paulvantuyl
Hello, my name is
Emotional Design Lead at Tallwave
& Coffee Drinker
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
We help innovative people
transform great ideas into
great businesses.
A lot of the time, they’re
starting things up at their
new or evolving company.
We’ve helped over 100
businesses start things up.
And holy sh*t is it hard.
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
(For designers with great ideas)
Five product & business
design secrets
So you have an idea,
now what?
Find your story.
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
1. Do your homework.
140, yo.
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
1. Do your homework
Explore.
Dig deep and gather intel.
Visually map it out.
Ask questions and look for red flags.
Draw conclusions.
2. Narrow your focus.
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
Illustration from Gamestorming
2. Narrow your focus
Define your segments.
Learn their needs and benefits.
Empathize with each of them.
3. Find your core loop.
Pacman:
Eat dots.
Avoid ghosts.
Complete maze.
Instagram:
Take photo.
Apply filter.
Share with friends.
Good design starts with good
concepts. Sketch your ideas.
Illustration from Signal vs. Noise
Give it personality.
A refined visual direction
is required.
Five product & business design secrets. (for designers anywhere)
3. Find your core loop
Find the part that matters most.
Give your idea personality.
Make sure it looks good.
Turn it into a clickable prototype.
4. Validate your story with users.
4. Validate your story with users.
Is this the right audience?
Do they have a need & how strong is it?
Does my concept solve that need?
Is the design solution the right one?
1. You know where to win
2. You know who you will win with
3. You know what concept to do it with
4. You've validated it with users
5. Make it happen.
Image from thinkfuture.com
Image from middlebury.edu
5. Make it happen.
Get users.
Build it.
Tell the world.

(not necessarily in that order)
Go make awesome things
happen.
Thank you.
Get today's deck and additional
resources at tallwave.com/phxdw
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