🕹 Top 3 Testing Techniques To Try

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As promised, here’s my take on the Top 3 Product/Market Testing Techniques to try.

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Idea: You do what you want the product to do, behind the scenes & fast enough so the user has no idea it’s done manually, so it feels instant. (This is different from the Concierge/Facade test, where the user knows you’re doing it manually.)

In the video, Kris talks about how he had to manually connect people behind the curtains (like a wizard) for his particular product idea. Some great ideas to inspire you.

Idea: Very close to the idea of dog-fooding your product, you make a dummy version of it and test it on yourself.

This one here from the maestro of Pretotyping, Alberto Savoia.

He turns a can of beans into a “smart device”, and then tries to use it throughout the day.

This helps him understand in what context he would reach for it, and what features would be handy in those contexts.

So he uses it not only as a validation technique, but also as an insight generator.

Idea: Unlike the Wizard Of Oz, where you don’t show what’s happening behind the curtains, with a Concierge you keep your cards on the table.

You deliver the same value that your product aims to bring automatically, but manually & visibly.

It has a connection to another great test, the High Hurdle - where you make it harder to complete the action which you hypothesise would be valuable, and watch if people complete it anyway (at some acceptable ratio).

Here are a couple of examples from the web on how others have achieved this.

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