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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Purposedifferent
When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage1-2 h Setup, laufend1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Nutzertraffic1Nutzertraffic
Formatsame
AsyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix