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Write the decision and the disproof
If nothing could change the plan, skip the research.
Made for UX Designers
Plan Research That Answers One Product Decision This Sprint
Also useful for: people in Product, people in Technology
30 min
Intermediate
Product
UX Designer
Career outcome:
Save Professional Time
Tie interviews or tests to a decision someone will make on a date.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Research that isn't attached to a decision becomes a slide dump.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Pick a method that fits the hours
Don't default to six interviews.
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Write recruit and guide
Talk to the people who hit the problem.
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Define the readout
One page, one recommendation.
Make Your Play
Plan Research That Answers One Product Decision This Sprint
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
What will be chosen, by whom, by when.
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The team's current story, including sacred cows.
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Customers, prospects, support tickets, analytics you can actually pull.
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Hours this sprint, not a research quarter.
This playbook was updated. Review your inputs before copying.
What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Write the decision and the disproof
If nothing could change the plan, skip the research.
02
Pick a method that fits the hours
Don't default to six interviews.
03
Write recruit and guide
Talk to the people who hit the problem.
04
Define the readout
One page, one recommendation.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
A PM asked for "quick user insights" or you are about to recruit without knowing what would change the roadmap.
You'll need
- The product decision
- What you already believe
- Access to people
- Time box
You'll get
- A a one-decision research plan with method, recruits, and what would change the product you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a one-decision research plan with method, recruits, and what would change the product you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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