Often times products and features are doomed to fail even before you start working on them because the customer, problem, their evaluation criteria, usefulness and usability of the solution, go-to-market and customer acquisition mechanisms, and business model are not understood or well defined.
This mad lib forces you to research, articulate and iterate on all of those questions before you start implementation.
- People like [specific segments, demographics]
- Who are faced with [specific problems]
- and care about [key criteria]
- Will use [solution]
- To do [steps to use solution]
- and it would help them [impact on problem and satisfaction].
- They'd discover this solution through [acquisition channels]
- And they'd use it whenever [need]
- Which happens once every [need frequency]
- And they'd pay [price, payment or revenue model]
As the old adage goes, if you had 1 hour to solve a problem, then spend 40 mins thinking about the problem and 20 mins iterating on various solutions.