Explore opportunities and assumptions, plan experiments and organize findings.
Before committing to building, break the product idea into small verifiable bets. Pin one measurable outcome (baseline and target horizon), then grow an opportunity-solution tree: under the outcome, opportunities backed by user evidence; under those, candidate solutions; under those, the fastest-learning experiments — at least three distinct opportunities before converging.
Then put assumptions on the table: do users want it, does the business hold, can it be built, is it usable — each scored by risk and uncertainty, tested from the riskiest outward. On the problem side, interviews confirm frequency, pain and willingness to act, and weak signals die early; on the solution side, prototypes test concept and value by watching behavior, not stated preference.
The cadence is a one-to-two-week discovery loop with explicit hypotheses, daily evidence reviews and a closing call: proceed, pivot or stop. What stays in your workspace is the tree, the assumption map and the loop plan — not another report nobody rereads.
Examples describe the request and the shape of the expected deliverable; they are not completed run results.
Direction 'handwriting annotation for iPad users': give the outcome metric and an opportunity-tree skeleton, attach every opportunity to one of the three interview quotes I supplied, and mark gaps plainly.
A tree with an evidence map: every opportunity points back to your interview material, unsupported spots flagged, not back-filled.
Assumption-map that tree: list all four assumption classes, score by risk and uncertainty, and give the three riskiest each a small experiment finishable within two weeks.
A scored assumption table plus three experiments — hypothesis, measure, sample, pass bar — with a two-week plan.
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