Review

Topics covered: market research; user research

Class Activity

Users and Markets

1. Pick one of your ideas (you won't be wedded to it, but choose the one like you better).
2. Based off the slides today, design a user interview to get information about whether you app will be successful. Remember to ask about problems, not products! Come up with at least 15 questions.
3. Start your market research for this idea. Google around, check out producthunt.com. What competitors do you have? What sets you apart? It could be your product, your target users, your market, etc.
4. Add these to your idea Google doc that you emailed the teachers this morning.

Exercises

E1: FINISH REDDIT

We've done a lot of stuff away from code for a few days—don't forget all the stuff you put in hard work to learn the last two weeks! Use tonight to get completely caught up to Reddit up to Ex. 10A.

E2 (Bonus!): Many-to-Reddit

If you're caught up, you're not off the hook: add a many-to-many relationship between two of your models (or create new ones that would use a MTM relationship) and code it using a has_many through: relation.

E3: Finding Real People

Now that you've made your user interview, start thinking about real people who you can ask about your product. Be aggressive about finding people: ask the teaching staff, other students, iX staff, Never@Home staff, the shuttle driver, session 1, random people you meet, etc. if they know anyone who might have the problems you're trying to solve. Find 10 such people and get their contact information by tomorrow.