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Understand problems and refine your ideas

Define and plan your experiment

Make a detailed plan for your experiment so you know when and how it will happen, and who will be involved.

Use prototyping to test ideas and assumptions

Learn how to improve your service by testing your assumptions and ideas through prototyping.

Understand your risks and assumptions

How to approach dealing with uncertainty and understanding the risks involved with change.

Guerilla testing low fidelity prototypes

Discover cost-effective methods to gather user feedback, improve your services and processes.

Get to the root cause of a problem

Develop a deeper understanding of a problem and analyse its impact on service users.

Make a hypothesis to test your idea

Learn how to make a hypothesis to test an idea and resolve the root cause of a problem.

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