Advaita Nigudkar

AMA: BILL Director Product Management, Advaita Nigudkar on Building 0-1 Products

April 14 @ 10:00AM PT
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
Honestly, don't overthink it. The best prototype is the one you can put in front of a user the fastest.At BILL, we default to Figma. It's fast, collaborative, and design ...
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How do you go about brainstorming the right solutions in terms of coming up with user experience to address the validated problems to be solved for users
How and where do you get inspiration to determine how and what types of user experience to be built and fleshing this our in your user stories while writing PRD
Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
Once the problem is validated, we use the Design for Delight (D4D) framework to drive solution brainstorming, three principles that work really well in sequence.Deep cust...
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How do you get inspiration for product design when it comes to designing a new product?
After gathering all the requirements and having great insights into users pinpoints, studied competitors, and market trends, How do you then get the inspiration for design layout before talking to your designer to translate all of this into an intuitive user experience
Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
Inspiration depends on what we're building, but the worst thing we can do is only look at what competitors are doing. That's how you build a faster horse.At BILL, we pull...
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
This is one of the most interesting tensions in product right now, and honestly there is no perfect formula.The way we think about it: current customer needs tell you whe...
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
Validating a problem statement isn't a single activity, it's a combination of signals that together tell you whether the problem is real, widespread, and worth solving.He...
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
A few that we see repeatedly:Skipping problem validation. Teams jump to solutions before they have real conviction on the problem. Building fast on a shaky foundation jus...
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
This quote is easy to agree with and hard to actually live out, especially in a larger company where there are brand standards, legal reviews, and a lot of stakeholders t...
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
Honestly, any revenue projection for a 0 to 1 product is an educated guess. The goal is to make it a structured, defensible one.Here is how I approach it:Start with the a...
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Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product ManagementApr 14
Yes, PMF can absolutely be the goal early on. And in our experience, forcing a precise north star metric before you have real usage data often leads to optimizing for the...
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