“Validating Your Product Hypotheses”: The greatest danger in Product is that no one will care about the thing that you’re building. That’s why it’s important to validate your hypothesis with real users before you start building. Terhi Hänninen has used Machine Learning to build customer Intent Prediction at Zalando. She will share her approach for validating hypotheses and tackling completely new customer problems never solved by the company before.
18. Value Prop - Context - People - Aha! moment
We are going to nail 4 things
19. Start with an extremely clear
value proposition
Mailchimp is
doing it right
Value - Context - People - Aha!
20. Place it directly within the context of a familiar
activity
Value - Context - People - Aha!
app’s place inside the
context of real-world
workflows.
21. Value - Context - People - Aha!
A B
Which one do you think is most irresistible?
credit: Samuel Hulick
22. Value - Context - People - Aha!
B
Which one do you think is most irresistible?
Because it focuses
on making better
people, not on a
list of features
23. Value - Context - People - Aha!
Focus on making better people
This isn’t what you sell
This is
Potential customer Your product Awesome person
doing rad shit
credit: Samuel Hulick
24. make people
better at
iterating on
designs
Value - Context - People - Aha!
Know what you are making people better at
make people
better at
remembering
things
make their
business personal
25. Value - Context - People - Aha!
Find your “aha! moment”
“oh! I can throw fireballs
by eating
flowers?”
26. Unlock your aha! moment as fast as possible
“Wait, I can rent
movies without going
to the video store?”
“Hold on, I just drag my
files into this one folder and
they’re automatically on all
my devices?”
“Whoa, I can have super
strong passwords without
having to remember any
of them?”
Value - Context - People - Aha!
27. “If your “aha moment” comes
deep inside your product, you’ve
already lost.”
- Samuel Hulick -
User onboarding expert
28.
29. Now we just need to get
sign-off from the mind.
We’ve already
captured their heart
31. Think beyond features
Specific ways your
product exceeds all the
other options
How your product is just
as good as all the other
List your product USPs
37. Make your user base more successful
Kind of person Slack helps people
become
Very specific and relevant vitality real-
world indicators. Impressive!
slack.com
41. Do you absolutely HAVE to:
● Get their phone number at signup?
● Have them confirm email before using the
app?
42. If many information needed, consider breaking
down into consumable steps
Its signup is composed of 15+ steps easy to take.
43. Don’t let users
drift away
Ever seen a field for a coupon code and opened a new
tab to do a search? That’s your flow being allowed to drift,
and it’s dangerous.
44. Requiring email address to be confirmed
is a big-time drifter
Allow provisional access until email is
confirmed to keep user in
45. By now your users should have taken
the first step by signing up.
Let’s align in-app touch points to set
them for success at every turn.
48. Make sure this first impression ends with a
cherry on top
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
49. To do so provide users a taste of success
Buffer first
experience aligns
with product
essence: scheduling
social updates.
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
50. First impression - One seat - Cut steps
Make first win achievable from one seat
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gomrSqmu4
51. Let’s see how Google
Doc shrunk a chain of
dependencies down from
5 to 2.
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
Cut as many steps as possible
52. Does your Google Doc
absolutely HAVE to have
a name?
Google just default edit to
“Untitled document”.
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
53. Do you absolutely need to
save it?
There’s nothing happening
here that an autosave
couldn’t
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
54. Do you absolutely need to
copy the link manually?
In Google Doc the link is
automatically selected and
copied
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
55. Google shrunk the chain and sacrificed
very little power to create a doc
First impression - One seat - Cut steps
57. First impression - One sit - Cut steps
Align these 3 rules with activation
Activation you have defined
58. Twitter saw a massive spike in
signup retention once started
encouraging people to follow
instead of search or tweet.
Everybody knew people they
were interested in ;)
Twitter activation = ~ 30 followers
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jonathan Haidt: the Elephant stuff is so much more powerful, let’s tackle that first.
motivate elephant, direct the rider, prime the path. For example, your “Rider self” may want to save up money in the long term, but your “Elephant self” might see the latest iPhone and, well, suddenly that savings plan can wait. The key is to create touchpoints that orient the rational Rider in the right direction, while harnessing and guiding the urges of the emotional Elephant. You also want to shape the “Path” — the environment they’re traveling in — to support forward progress as much as possible.
Think of onboarding not in terms of activating features, but in terms of how your product makes its users successful.
Think of onboarding not in terms of activating features, but in terms of how your product makes its users successful.
N26 → Mastercard
All that’s left to do is pave that path so nobody loses their way in your app!
NO. “The database requires it at signup” is not an answer you should sleep well at night with
N26 is a mobile bank which need many information.
now increases the likelihood they go all-in.
It pushes toward first product win.
It also has to be something someone is highly likely to already be prepared to do. If you’re an email marketing product and your first- run experience is banking on someone sending out their first campaign right away, you better hope a large majority of your signups are coming armed with something to say. Make sure it’s a very safe bet that your quick win is harnessing not only a real intent, but a current one at the moment of signup.
Ultimately, you want someone to walk away from their first experience feeling a little happier, a little better off, and a little more invested in your product than they were when they started. Score that first win, and your life just got a whole lot easier as far as getting them to return is concerned.
To boil everything down, think of it via this litmus test: what’s the one first step in your software that, if you knew someone took it, would make you feel WAY more comfortable in betting on them ultimately becoming highly-engaged users?
93% more likely to stick around
when a user saves weekly, for four weeks after signup
Ultimately, you want someone to walk away from their first experience feeling a little happier, a little better off, and a little more invested in your product than they were when they started. Score that first win, and your life just got a whole lot easier as far as getting them to return is concerned.
To boil everything down, think of it via this litmus test: what’s the one first step in your software that, if you knew someone took it, would make you feel WAY more comfortable in betting on them ultimately becoming highly-engaged users?