A Miro Template for Designing Product Experiments

Designers that can enhance product decisions are worth their weight in gold.

Most designers spend their time trying to prove their ideas, but the best designers put theirs (and everyone’s) ideas to the test. How do you do that? Start with an experiment template!

Read the Instructions on the Fountain Institute Blog

After designing dozens of experiments, I realized that I was doing the same thing repeatedly. This template is the process I follow to de-risk early-stage ideas and concepts. Use it to guide your experimentation process.

What’s different about this template? My experiment cards are built around Assumption Testing.

Testing Assumptions is the Fastest Way to De-Risk an Idea

Assumptions are things that you assume to be true without proof. In innovation work, most of your ideas will be filled with assumptions. By testing these risky, unproven assumptions first, you de-risk the idea.

Most teams have lots of product ideas. And the beauty of testing assumptions is that these ideas probably share many assumptions. If you can test one assumption, you’ll probably provide some evidence on a host of similar ideas.

And don’t forget to use that Analysis Card! One of the biggest mistakes I see people make is to forget the experiment analysis. Do it with your team and make those experiment learnings concrete.

To learn more about how to use the cards, take my course on innovation.

If you use it or have feedback, message me on Linkedin!