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Here you will find good practices to maintain the design and system of this template. Once you have customized it to your needs you can add new good practices for your team.

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Template Design

• Maintain the template design by using the same icon set. Icons generate automatically if you use the database templates.
• Icons used for this template are Doodle Icons from Khushmeen Sindhu.
• Icons used for this template have been changed to the following colors using Figma
  • HEX: 0E9AA7
  • RGB: 14 - 154- 167

Improve the template

• Relations: Connect this space with your task management system in Notion. Add a view to the main dashboard to assign tasks related to this Discovery Process. Another possibility is to connect the discovery space to specific goals within your company i.e. Discover 1 new product during the next three months.

• Automations: During the research stage or within some ideation techniques, you may need to recollect information from users and client’s through surveys. You can improve this template by adding automatons.

  • Connect Tally Forms to a Notion Database to automatically collect information from users. Read more here.
  • Connect Typeform to a Notion Database to automatically collect information from users. Read More.
  • Connect SurveySparrow to a Notion Database to automatically collect information from users Read More.
  • You can also connect Notion to a survey service for the Employees Submissions template in the ideation stage.

• External Tools: Use additional tools to develop some ideation techniques. For instance, you can use the following options to develop Focus Groups Discussions and Research.

  Agile Qualitative Market Research Platform | Discuss.io

  Focus Groups Live Webcam Interview Software | FocusVision InterVu

  Social Mention 🤗 #1 Free Real-time Social Mentions Search

  Statista - The Statistics Portal

Template System

• This template has 5 master databases

  • Meetings - Full Page, find this in the gears section in the menu within the main dashboard.
  • Documentation - Full Page, find this in the gears section in the menu within the main dashboard
  • Ideation - Inline database, find this in the ideation section of the product discovery stages in the menu within the main dashboard.
  • Screening Inline database, find this in the screening section of the product discovery stages in the menu within the main dashboard.
  • Research Inline database, find this in the research section of the product discovery stages in the menu within the main dashboard.

• The following master databases include database templates

  • Meetings: New Meeting
  • Ideation: Focus Group, Customer visits, Lead User Analysis, Client Workshop, Customer Advisory Board, Internal Team Brainstorming, Employee Submissions
  • Screening: Screen an Idea
  • Research: Research an Idea

• Database templates automatically provide information to develop a technique or a stage. In case you need to change that automatic information, you will need to edit the template as shown in the image below.