AudioPen · B2C · voice-to-text note app
Message the people who liked your prototype and ask why
Learned their use cases and designed the full version around them
Workedvalidationfeature-development
What they did
When the prototype got signal on Twitter, he DM'd the people who liked it and asked why; a few explained their use cases. He then designed for those use cases in Figma (using Pinterest for inspiration) before building the full version.
What happened
Gave him the use cases to design the full product around
- Stage
- Between prototype and full version
“The first thing was I got signal from people, I DM'd them. I was like, "Okay, why do you like this thing?" A few people explained to me what their use cases were.”
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