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Product Discovery Services
Gain clarity in project direction and an adequate understanding of user needs thanks to Artkai’s discovery phase services for product development. Let us help you align project stakeholders and allocate resources wisely to eventually hit
the market opportunity.
OUR SERVICES
Product Discovery Services We Provide
Software discovery services usually embrace several aspects.
Market Research
Conducting comprehensive market research to gather insights about the target audience, industry trends, competitor analysis, and market opportunities. Gain an understanding of the market landscape to make informed product decisions.
User Research
Holding user interviews, surveys, and usability testing to gain a deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and preferences. User research helps shape user-centric products and improve user experience.
Prototyping
Creating interactive prototypes or wireframes that visually represent the product's functionality, user interface, and user flow. Prototyping allows for early-stage validation, feedback collection, and iteration before investing in full-scale development.
Validation and Testing
Throwing usability tests, user feedback sessions, and iterative validation to ensure the product meets user expectations and solves their pain points. This practice helps refine the product and reduces the risk of building an unsuccessful solution.
Product Roadmapping
Outlining a strategic product roadmap that outlines the vision, milestones, and timeline for product development. Get a high-level plan for guiding the project and aligning stakeholders.
Business Analysis
Assessing the product's business requirements, market viability, and revenue potential. Identifying monetization strategies, pricing models, and market entry plans.
Technical Feasibility Assessment
Evaluating the product’s technical feasibility, considering factors like the technology stack, infrastructure requirements, scalability, and integration capabilities.
Stakeholder Alignment
Facilitating communication channels to ensure alignment among stakeholders, including product owners, developers, designers, and business representatives. Let us help you create a shared vision of the project's objectives.
OUR BENEFITS
Who Conducts the Discovery Phase
of a Software Project?
See what specialists we involve in the product discovery
services process.
Business Analysts
Business analysts analyze business requirements, market trends, and user needs. They help define the project scope, document functional and non-functional requirements, and ensure alignment between business goals and technical implementation.
User Experience (UX) Designers
UX designers focus on understanding the target users, conducting user research, and creating user personas. They collaborate with stakeholders to define user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes that optimize the user experience.
User Researchers
User researchers conduct qualitative and quantitative research to understand user behaviors, needs, and pain points. They conduct interviews, surveys, and usability tests to gather insights that inform product decisions.
Developers
Artkai involved developers in the discovery phase to provide technical insights and feasibility assessments. Our engineers collaborate with the team to understand project requirements and provide input on technical considerations and constraints.
Quality Assurance (QA) Analysts
Our QA analysts contribute to the discovery phase by identifying potential risks, quality criteria, and test scenarios. They provide input to ensure the product meets quality standards and validate the proposed solutions.
Project Managers
Project managers oversee the discovery phase, ensuring timely execution, managing resources, and coordinating activities among team members. They are crucial in keeping the discovery process on track and aligned with project goals.
OUR CAPABILITIES
Technologies we work with
Development technology stack for rich and high-quality interfaces.
Back-End
.NET
Go
GraphQL
Java
Kafka
Microservices
No-SQL
Node.js
ORM
Python
RabbitMQ
REST
Socket.io
SQL
Front-End
Angular
React.js
TypeScript
Vue
Blockchain
Rust
Solidity
Mobile
Flutter
Ionic
Kotlin
React Native
Swift
QA
AVA
Chai
Jest
JMeter
Loader.io
Mocha
Nightwatch
Pixel Perfect
Postman
Selenium
Infrastructure
AWS
Docker
ElasticSearch
Firebase
Grafana
K8S
Kibana
Microsoft Azure
Prometheus
OUR BENEFITS
Benefits Of Our Software Product
Discovery Services
Software discovery services bring many advantages to your future product.
Thanks to this process, you will:
Gain Clarity of Project Vision
The Artkai team begins with market research and understanding user needs and pain points. We gather insights through user interviews, surveys, and competitor analysis to inform the design process.
Facilitate User-Centric Approach
Ideating and brainstorming potential solutions based on the research findings. Creating user personas and defining user stories to guide the design direction.
Reduce Development Risks
Developing low-fidelity wireframes to outline the structure and layout of the digital product. Creating interactive prototypes to test the flow and usability of the design.
Improve Cost Efficiency
Save your budget in the long run. Identify potential challenges, refine requirements, and validate concepts early to avoid costly rework, changes, and late-stage modifications during development.
Faster Time to Market
Facilitate efficient planning, roadmap creation, and prioritization of features. This helps streamline the software development process, enabling a faster time to market. Starting with a well-defined vision and roadmap can accelerate the product’s development cycles and seize market opportunities sooner.
Enhance User Experience
The discovery phase allows for early user involvement, enabling the creation of intuitive and user-friendly software interfaces. By incorporating user feedback, conducting usability testing, and iterating on designs, product discovery guides you to deliver a superior user experience.
Align Stakeholders
Foster collaboration among stakeholders, including business owners, product managers, designers, and developers. Through requirements gathering and communication channels, software discovery services facilitate alignment, ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding project goals, priorities, and expectations.
Gain Competitive Advantage
Comprehensive market research and competitor analysis conducted during the discovery phase give businesses insights into market trends, gaps, and potential differentiators. Leverage this knowledge to create software solutions that will give you a competitive edge in the market.
OUR APPROACH
Our Software Product Discovery
Services Process
Discovery phase services for product development
take several detailed stages.
Project Initiation
The process begins with project initiation, where the discovery team engages with the client to understand their business goals, challenges, as well as functional and non-functional requirements. This step involves gathering initial information and setting expectations.
Research and Analysis
Artkai’s discovery team conducts in-depth research and analysis to gain insights into the target market, industry trends, and competitors. They gather data through market research, user research, and competitive analysis to understand user needs, pain points, and market gaps.
Stakeholder Interviews and Workshops
The team conducts interviews and workshops with key stakeholders, such as business owners, product managers, and subject matter experts. These sessions aim to gather requirements, align stakeholders, and uncover valuable insights to shape the product vision.
User Research and Persona Creation
We employ user research methods like interviews, surveys, and usability testing to understand user behaviors, preferences, and needs. Based on this data, we create user personas representing different target user groups.
Ideation and Concept Generation
Our team generates and refines ideas for the software product through collaborative workshops and brainstorming sessions. We explore various concepts, features, and functionalities that align with user needs and business goals.
Prototyping and Validation
The team creates prototypes or wireframes to visualize the product's user interface and interaction flow. These prototypes are then validated through usability testing and feedback collection from target users, helping to iterate and refine the product concept.
Documentation and Roadmapping
Shaping the final documentation of key findings, requirements, user personas, and a product roadmap. This documentation is the foundation for the subsequent development phases and guides the project team.
OUR CLIENTS SAY
Feedback is breakfast of champions
Being a part of 100+ challenging projects is inspiring for us. Check out what our customers say about us.
Ketevan Kakheli & Ekaterine Begiashvili
Head of Electronic Banking Service Unit
"Together with their team of experts, we were able to find an improved solution"
Wim Geeroms
Product Owner, Automotive Marketplace
“Artkai’s team delivered excellent quality and professionalism. I would recommend them to entrepreneurs and established businesses alike!”
Jens Martinsen
CEO at TestHub
“We had a discovery phase with Artkai. I highly recommend them for this learning step to everyone who wants to gain more in the long run!”
Judah Musick
CEO, Tagible / Chief Innovation Officer at Red Rocks
“I’ve worked with many design and development companies, and I can honestly recommend Artkai above all of them.”
Josh Bicknell
Co-Founder & CEO at Balloon Ventures
“The value for money is incredible. Artkai did a great job, and I’d recommend anyone who needs design or development work to look at them.”
Emilio Lando
Chief Product Officer at Adverty
“Working with Artkai has been a pleasure. The team is professional, easy to collaborate with, and delivers great results.”
The Artkai team has good professional chemistry and great experience with digital products.
I loved the team's responsiveness to our needs and willingness to help.
'Their visionary leadership gave us confidence in the results for our clients.'
Their team spirit made them a sought-after partner for tackling the most challenging design and development tasks.
They've continued to deliver amazing value for our investment.
our results
Deliverables
The outcomes that our clients achieve by collaborating with our organization.
Research
Research phase report
Research Phase Report summarizes the key findings, insights, and recommendations from our research phase, providing you with a clear understanding of your target market, industry trends, and competitive landscape. It serves as a resource to inform your product strategy and guide decision-making during development.
Scoping
Solution Architecture
Solution architecture outlines the recommended technical solution for your product, including system components, data flow, and integration points. It provides a clear blueprint that guides the development team.
Customer Journey Map
Obtain a customer journey map that depicts the end-to-end experience of your users, highlighting their interactions, pain points, and opportunities for engagement at each touchpoint.
Low-fi Wireframes
We create low-fidelity sketches and wireframes that serve as the app concept’s visual representations, effectively communicating them to stakeholders, users, and development teams. These sketches and wireframes encompass essential user scenarios, ensuring comprehensive coverage of important aspects.
Information Architecture
Get a well-structured and intuitive organization of content, navigation systems, and data flow within the app. This deliverable provides a clear blueprint that ensures seamless user interactions, efficient information retrieval, and a cohesive user experience, ultimately enhancing the usability and effectiveness of your app.
Backlog
The backlog includes a prioritized list of features and user stories for the app’s MVP. This document outlines the essential functionality required to launch your app successfully, allowing you to visualize the core features and user interactions. It serves as a roadmap for development.
Project plan, time&cost, team composition for developing the MVP
A detailed Project Plan that outlines the timeline, cost estimates, and team composition for forming your app’s MVP. This document provides a clear roadmap, giving you a comprehensive understanding of the project's scope, key milestones, and resource requirements.
Discovery results gathered as a Pitch Deck
A compelling Pitch Deck that encapsulates the essential findings and insights gathered during the discovery process. We present a concise and visually engaging overview of your app concept, target market, competitive advantages, user personas, and product roadmap.
HOW WE WORK
Our Collaboration Models
Time & Material
That's the most affordable and flexible model for companies wishing to close some minor technical tasks. You only pay the staff's hourly rates and can get an experienced Artkai coder, designer, or tester on board for a few days to resolve a challenge.
Dedicated Team
If you have larger tasks for us or experience a tech stack gap in your company, it's reasonable to consider the dedicated team's recruitment. A separate team is compiled at Artkai in line with your project needs to work together with your in-house staff and solve the tasks at hand.
Project-Based Work
Why overload your in-house team with the development work if you can outsource the entire project to us? Project-based arrangements give full responsibility for project management and tracking to the Artkai team, allowing you to focus on the core business activities.
OUR VICTORIES
Awards
Leading review and rating platforms say we are the top development company. We don’t mind.
Top 1000 Companies Global 2023
Top Blockchain Company Ukraine 2023
Top UX/UI Designing Companies 2023
Top Javascript Developers 2024
Top NodeJS Developers Kyiv 2023
Top React Native Developer Kyiv 2023
Top ReactJS Developers Kyiv 2023
Top Web3 Developers Ukraine 2023
Top B2B Services Ukraine 2023
OUR CASE STUDIES
Projects that make sense
We are proud to make projects that are used by dozens of millions of people, recognized by Apple, Y-Combinator, Forbes and got more than half a billion of funding.
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RESOURCES
Latest Insights
Based on years of experience in multiple industries and deep understanding of business needs.
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OUR BENEFITS
Why Artkai?
We always handle every project with care and guarantee deep involvement of all team members. No stress, no mess! Artkai team plans thoroughly, develops efficiently, and delivers easily due to great communication, Agile methodology and personalized approach to each client.
Mature workflow
We always handle every project with care and guarantee deep involvement of all team members. No stress, no mess! Artkai team plans thoroughly, develops efficiently, and delivers easily due to great communication, Agile methodology and personalized approach to each client.
Top 5%
UX & Engineering Talents
Turn all your bold ideas and innovative vision into reality with our talented design and engineering experts. We wrap high-quality code into a trendy and user-friendly design to impress even the most demanding users.
Accurate Estimations
& Predictable Delivery
Get no more unpleasant surprises, project delays or cost overruns! With our team everything always goes smoothly and according to plan. We set realistic timelines and provide accurate estimations, so that you can allocate all resources effectively and mitigate many development risks.
Easy & Quick Team Scaling
Scale-up efficiently and boost your product development together with Artkai team. Our collaborative skills are just iconic! You will get access to a wide pool of tech talents and high-class designers who will cover all development gaps in your in-house team.
Legal and Financial Guarantees
When partnering with Artkai, you never get into legal or financial hassle or problems. We offer contracts for companies within the U.S. and UK jurisdiction and manage all payments through our official payment channels for transparent reporting and taxation.
Cross-Platform Expertise
Build intuitive and feature-rich cross-platform solutions with Artkai to reach out to a wider audience and power up your business. We use advanced technologies and tools to deliver apps that provide native-like experience and work seamlessly across multiple devices and platforms.
WHAT TO KNOW
Questions that make sense
When does a project need a discovery phase?
Every project needs a product plan to be developed consistently and without bottlenecks. That’s why project discovery is a vital preparatory tool that helps create a detailed product plan, check the client’s expectations about the product, and align the technical side with a broader business strategy and vision. All business ideas are guesswork until they’re validated with tangible market insights and data. Therefore, a discovery phase can give you additional proof of the idea’s marketability and viability before you pour money into it.
How long do project discovery phase services take?
Depending on the software sector for which your business idea is meant and the project’s overall complexity, the discovery stage may take from 1 week to 6 weeks. However, it’s better to keep the duration of discovery down to a minimum, as risks rise with prolonged discovery work. To speed up the discovery process and reap tangible results from it, you should plan the work in advance and use proactive methodologies, such as design thinking and Google sprints, to ensure the job is done on time.
What are the risks of skipping a discovery phase?
Skipping this phase may be a wrong decision because a project without discovery can ultimately fail, exceed the planned budget, or exhibit poor alignment with business goals in the end. Otherwise, by engaging in thorough discovery, you can get precise market data and analytical insights that inform your decision-making and result in a product that the market and target audience really need.
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