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Author: Aditya Shrivastava

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+# Recitation 1 - User Discovery
+
+### Step 1: Choose a Focus/Idea
+- What problems are you suited to solve?
+
+### Step 2: Design a Set of Questions
+- Their life story **>>>** Your idea
+- Past **>>>** Future
+
+### Step 3: Ask People Questions
+- Find **4 people** in your target demographic, talk to them:
+  - Friends
+  - Strangers on the street
+  - LinkedIn
+- **Don’t** use people in the class for homework.
+- **GPT is not a person.**
+
+---
+
+## Exercise: Choose a Focus (5 minutes)
+- **What problem do you want to solve?**
+  Could be a pain point for you or someone you know.
+
+---
+
+## Exercise: Write Down a Set of Questions (5 minutes)
+- Collect as much **concrete, relevant information** about pain points as possible.
+- If the other person is clearly not a member of your target demographic:
+  - Try to collect insights anyway (though at a certain point, you may have to give up).
+
+### Avoid:
+- Asking unhelpful questions:
+  - Too much assumption.
+  - Questions that lead to biased answers.
+  - Wrong target audience.
+- Design questions to gather information **efficiently.**
+
+---
+
+## Exercise: Ask People Questions (10 minutes)
+- Practice with classmates (2 people per group).
+- Allow space for **general conversation**, since the idea is early-stage.
+
+---
+
+## Retrospective
+- **What you learned** from these discovery conversations:
+  - What problems did they have?
+  - How did they solve them?
+  - What wasn’t a problem?
+- **What does this mean** to your:
+  - Product
+  - Focus area
+  - Problem of choice