product-discovery_skill

Overview

This skill provides expert product discovery guidance for user research and problem validation. It codifies techniques for interviews, JTBD, opportunity sizing, segmentation, competitive analysis, and prototype testing. Use it to structure discovery sprints, set a continuous discovery cadence, and run repeatable research operations.

How this skill works

When invoked, the skill applies a set of organized rules and frameworks across research, discovery, analysis, and testing phases. It recommends methods (generative, evaluative, quantitative) based on your hypothesis and stage, and produces concrete outputs: problem maps, validated problems, prioritized opportunities, and test results. It also offers templates for interviews, opportunity scoring, segmentation, and a weekly/monthly/quarterly cadence.

When to use it

• Planning or running user interviews
• Validating problem hypotheses before building solutions
• Sizing opportunity and prioritizing roadmap items
• Designing surveys and quantitative measures
• Running prototype or usability tests
• Synthesizing cross-source research into decisions

Best practices

• Talk directly to users, not proxies or stakeholders
• Validate problems before designing solutions; separate problem and solution interviews
• Combine qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and explain opportunity
• Run discovery continuously (weekly interviews + monthly synthesis) rather than in long, infrequent batches
• Avoid leading questions and confirmation bias; iterate your discussion guide
• Score opportunities by importance, satisfaction, frequency, and willingness to pay

Example use cases

• Run a 2-week discovery sprint to explore a new market and produce a problem space map
• Design and run JTBD interviews to uncover functional, social, and emotional jobs
• Use opportunity scoring to prioritize features across segments and build a prioritized roadmap
• Set up weekly discovery cadence: 2–3 interviews, analytics review, and backlog updates
• Prototype and usability test a flow, then synthesize learnings into actionable design changes