Event #1: Validating Product Ideas from 0 to 1
I attended a webinar titled Validating Product Ideas from 0 to 1. It is conducted by Daylon Soh, the Founder and General Manager of CuriousCore. The webinar mainly covered validating product ideas using the validation canvas to run potential experiments in order to verify our hypotheses. It also covered the concept of competitive vulnerability to better help us ideate, validate and overcome issues UX designers may face while undergoing the design process. Firstly, the speaker spoke about the Product Market Fit of a product design. In reality, every product would need to be able to gain traction and get to the mass market in order to gain profits. The product would need to be able to compete with all other products that solve the customers’ problems. In order to achieve that, as designers, we need to be able to pitch our ideas to the relevant stakeholders to obtain buy-in. This can be done by evaluating factors such as business model, adoption strategy, other products in the market, c...