4th nov 15 - creating great minimum viable products - brian crofts
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MAY 1, 2023
INNOVATION @ INTUIT
WELCOME
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IMPROVE OUR CUSTOMERS’ FINANCIAL LIVES SO PROFOUNDLY… THEY CAN’T IMAGINE GOING BACK TO THE OLD WAY
OUR MISSION
MAY 1, 2023
EVOKING POSITIVE EMOTION BY GOING BEYOND CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS IN EASE AND BENEFIT THROUGHOUT THEIR CUSTOMER JOURNEY
DESIGN FOR DELIGHT
...so people buy more and tell others about their experience
KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERBETTER THAN THEY KNOW THEMSELVES
DEEP CUSTOMER EMPATHY
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DEEP CUSTOMER EMPATHY
High cost
Tax store charged her $700 when she was
expecting <$300
Not convenient
Tax store made her wait with her two kids
in tow
Lack of confidence
Her refund was $2000 less than last year and
tax store could not explain why
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A JOURNEY TO AWESOME PRODUCT EXPERIENCES
WOULD A TAXPAYER BE WILLING TO WORK ONLINE WITH AN ACCOUNTANT THEY’VE NEVER MET BEFORE?
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LEAN STARTUP
I CAN’T … THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY…— SCOTT COOK
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A video MVP … Dropbox example - demonstrating the product/service without building a prototype
[Dropbox] had prominent venture capital backers and could have been expected to apply the standard engineering thinking to building the business: build it and they will come. But Dropbox did something different.In parallel with their product development efforts, the founders wanted feedback from customers about what really mattered to them. In particular, Dropbox need to test its leap-of-faith question: if we can provide a superior customer experience, will people give our product a try? They believed—rightly, as it turned out—that file synchronization was a problem that most people didn’t know they had. Once you experience the solution, you can’t imagine how you ever lived without it …… The challenge was that it was impossible to demonstrate the working software in a prototype form …… Drew did something unexpectedly easy: he made a video. “Our beta waiting list went from 5,000 people to 75,000 people literally overnight.”In this case, the video was the minimum viable product. The MVP validated Drew’s leap-of-faith assumption that customers wanted the product he was developing not because they said so in a focus group or because of a hopeful analogy to another business, but because they actually signed up.
LOF Hypothesis: if we provide a superior experience, they will give our product a tryWhat they built: a 3 min videoHow the measured: # of beta sign-ups for betaWhat they learned: when customer understand the product concept, interest is very high (proven by beta sign-up currency)
- Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
12Intuit Proprietary & Confidential
Video MVP to test against our two of leap of faith hypothesis …
Tax Store customers
Will tax store customers adopt our DIFM solution?
Tax Pros
Will tax pros participate (supply) our DIFM solution?
Intuit
Can we build service/platform to support both sides?
Build video
Measure beta sign-
ups
Learn interest in adoption
Build … to test leap-of-faith hypothesis, build a video that helps both sides of the platform visualize the DIFM solution—to better understand the process and vision of the new, virtual offering (customize for each side – both acct & TS)
Measure … like Dropbox, include an option to sign-up for beta or a TY’12 season waitlist. Sign-ups for new service will be our currency.
Learn … is there a statistically significant level of interest for both supply and demand side—enough interest to derive currency?
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From minimal viable to “awesome” product
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METRICS
Confirm Estimate
Visit
Search
CPA selection
Sign-up
Doc Share
Pay
Cohort63/25-3/31
Shopping funnel
Productfunnel
Cohort 7:4/8-4/11
Cohort 6:3/25-4/7
Cohort 5:3/11-3/24
Cohort 4:2/25-3/10
Cohort 3:2/11-2/24
Cohort 2:1/28-2/10
Cohort 1:1/14 – 1/27
5,157 20,634 16,707 20,671 18,801 15,329 5,300
1,451
28.1%
3,996
19.4%
3,379
20.2%
4,144
20.1%
3,739
19.9%
3173
20.7%
78614.8%
86316.7%
2,067
10.0%
1,772
10.6%
1,823
8.8%
1,417
7.5%
1,113
7.3%
2925.5
%
5109.9
%
1,142
5.5%
9775.9
%
8634.2
%
6633.5
%
4633.0
%
571.0
%
2685.2
%
6253.0
%
4792.9
%
4212.0
%
2991.6
%
1621.1
%
140.3
%1653.0
%
4161.8
%
2991.5
%
2130.9
%
1580.7
%
550.3
%3
0%
1472.9
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3571.7
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2521.5
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1730.9
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1230.7
%
510.3
%3
0%
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THE LIFE EVENT CUSTOMER
Life Event(moved, divorced, multiple jobs, etc.) Usually first time
w a pro.
Online
Delighted by online experience
of working remotely with a
pro
Tech Competen
tAble to upload & share documents
online
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METRICS
_x000d_1/14 - 1/27
_x000d_1/28 - 2/10
_x000d_2/11 - 2/24
_x000d_2/25 - 3/10
_x000d_3/11 - 3/24
0%
20%
40%
60%
20%26%
36% 42%
31%
6%
10%
26%
47%37%
17%
16% 26%
29%
23%
TurboTax.com + DMIn TTO (ENF)Paid Search
Cohort performance over time: sign-up to paid # of sign-ups
2,320 In TTO (ENF)2,396 TT.com + DM
4,101 paid search
Life event, want to delegate Need a pro for reassurance
“I did our taxes using TurboTax and my husband requests that I have someone double-check it. :-)”
“Just want a CPA to review my return to avoid any automated IRS audits like one I was subjected to two years back.”
“I have entered in all my information into Turbo Tax but want to make sure that I captured everything as I owe a significant amount due to the ###(k) early withdrawal”
“My husband and I purchased a home this year and will be filing jointly. Thank you!”
“I changed jobs, got married, and moved to NYC in ####.”
“I only had one job in the past year, very simple evaluation.”
“I want to file my taxes jointly with my wife. I was working in Texas for the first half of #### and moved to Virginia later due to change in job”
In progress
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PERSONA
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CHOOSE A PRO
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OUR MISSION
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OUR MISSION
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OUR MISSION
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THE LIFE EVENT CUSTOMER
Life Event(moved, divorced, multiple jobs, etc.) Usually first time
w a pro.
Online
Delighted by online experience
of working remotely with a
pro
Tech Compe
tentAble to upload
& share documents
online
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WHAT DELIGHT LOOKS LIKE …
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WHAT DELIGHT LOOKS LIKE …
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TOOLS
Brief Description
https://www.flinto.com/
https://www.mturk.com/
http://www.usertesting.com/
https://redpen.io/
https://www.optimizely.com/
http://www.luckyorange.com/
http://mailchimp.com/
https://www.olark.com/
Efficient way to get design feedback from teammates, stakeholders, etc.
A/B testing pages/experiences
https://mixpanel.com/
Set-up a specific task/test and get quick results (Results in <1hr)
Video of customers going through experience/script. Results in <1hr
Light weight (integration) funnel conversion report
Quickly create email marketing campaigns to customers. Easily tracks opens and CTRs
Simple way to collect feedback and to collaborate on designs
Measures customer behavior; heat mapping, conversion, polling, chat
Easy to use, configurable chat experience
Tool
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TOOLS
Tool Brief Description
https://www.fiverr.com/ Outsourcing small tasks that are typically de-prioritized due to resource constraints
http://d4d.intuit.com/Internal resource: experiment toolkits, D4D methods, and coaching
https://www.kissmetrics.com/ All-in-one; A/B tests, funnel bailout, cohort conversion, etc.
https://webflow.com/Easily create and launch beautiful (new & cool) homepages for smoke screens
Easily create and launch beautiful (new & cool) homepages for smoke screenshttp://unbounce.com/
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