What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps teams decide what to build before they design screens or write specs. It frames the real user problem, checks whether the opportunity is worth pursuing, and turns vague feature ideas into clear product decisions with measurable outcomes.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Problem framing: Recast feature requests into a specific user, job, current workaround, and cost.
- Opportunity sizing and prioritization: Estimate reach, urgency, and business upside to tell a painkiller from a vitamin.
- Solution exploration: Compare do-nothing, manual, off-the-shelf, minimal build, and full build options before committing.
- Success metrics: Define a primary metric, guardrail, and counter-metric before launch.
- MVP scoping: Cut scope into in, deferred, and out so the smallest test can still produce a real signal.
- Example use case: A product manager asks whether a requested onboarding feature is worth building, and this Skill produces a brief with the problem statement, solution options, metric targets, and riskiest assumptions.
Quick Start
Ask the product designer skill to turn my feature idea into a problem statement, opportunity assessment, MVP scope, and success metrics.
