Good Product Design: How to build Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Many startups focus on building their Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to hit the market and reach to investors for funding. Product design is the core integral part of it and they must be having good product design process to launch their MVPs. Most of the startups fail in this process and it can turn out to be a costly mistake. 

The product design is the practice of design thinking. The major reason for the failure could be the product development strategy, poor UX design, reduced functionality, no real value, etc.  Startups need the support of technology team in order to develop the MVP.  Let’s have a look at the product design process and why startups must focus on this.  

Understanding & Addressing Real User Needs

The foremost process of the design thinking is to understanding the concept and real users’ needs. The success of MVPs are not fully depending how these works rather it should address the real problem of the users or customers. Startups must focus the challenges of the users and need to define the features to address their challenges through MVPs. Understanding user needs is a complex issue and many companies fail to understand. The process of understanding users’ problems needs methodical research which is a key to the success of the MVPs.   

Planning MVPs

The success of the MVPs is completely depends on the planning. Startups need to work on the planning aspect first before launching or starting the MVPs. After thorough check on user needs, it is necessary to work as per the plan to create and launch the MVPs.

The MVPs are for the users to complete certain tasks, so it must fulfill their aspirations and there should not be half-baked assumptions around the product. Many products failed as they failed to address the real issues of the customers or users. To overcome from all challenges, startups must start with a good plan to execute and launch the MVPs.

User Research: Validate Your Idea

It is observed that the entrepreneurs having extensive user research experience are most successful in launching their products. They understand the user pains in regard to the product and its usage. They work on the potential solutions to address the concerns of the users.

One needs to validate the idea at the initial stage to launch the product. Since the product is in the initial process, there are fair chances to correct it as per the requirement. At later stage or advanced stage it is quite challenging to go for any kind of altercations.

Sometimes entrepreneurs are not able to find the blind spot in regard to the products. The consultants having expertise in software product development are the best to find the blind spot. Once the idea is validates, there are fair chances that the product could be a successful once it hit the market.

Prototype & Testing

It is always a good to have prototype product prior launch the direct product in the market. Creating a prototype will help entrepreneurs to think the idea in concrete manner. They can get the complete idea about the product from the beginning and work on improvement at latter stage. They should not spend too much time in building the prototype.

A proper testing of the prototype is worth. This will give them complete idea over the product and its function. The testing is the crucial stage of the process in order to have the proper product. Many products fail on live due to poor testing environment. Prototyping can be a quick and effective way of bringing a client's ideas to life.

Product design is the critical process for startups & entrepreneurs to build best product developments. It is mandatory for the products to go through each and every process of the design process in order to be successful.