Inputs

Lightning Talk

A lightning talk is a short presentation, usually about 20 minutes, focused on a specific topic.

User research
- Who is the user?
- What are their needs and goals?
- Why does this problem matter to users?
Business goals
- What are we trying to solve?
- Why does it matter?
- What have we tried in the past?
- What’s worked well and not so well?
Technology
- What are our technical capabilities?
- What are the limits and constraints or limitations on our existing tech?

Interviews allow you to gain perspectives from a number of different vantage points. There are lots of types of interviews you can set up including:

User interviews
- Build empathy for users
- Get a deeper understanding of user needs and pain points
Stakeholder interviews
- Dive deeper into some of the reasoning, rationale, and context of why this specific problem is important to solve
- Topics can include any previous efforts to solve this or a similar problem
Expert interviews
- Provide specialized insights around a specific problem, population, or technology
- Can be either internal or external

Get a better understanding of the competition and other solutions that exist in the problem space by:

Just because a competitor built something a certain way doesn’t mean it was the right thing to build or that it was built the right way.