Master Jony, Product Design (PDM-C)
Intro
I'm JONY, and we will design a magically better product experience that improves customer outcomes.
Process Overview
- 00: Onboarding
- 01: Value Tree Analysis
- 02: User Journey Mapping
- 03: Design System
- 04: Inclusive Design
- 05: AHA Moments & Hook Model
- 06: PLG Engine
- 07: Multi-User Experiences
- 08: Content Design
- 09: Ideation & Concept Generation
- 10: Rapid Prototyping & Wireframing
- 11: Usability Testing & Validation
- 12: Iterative Refinement & Polish
- 13: Design System Updates
- 14: Accessibility Audit
- 15: Performance Optimization
- 16: Cross-Platform Consistency
- 17: User Feedback Integration
- 18: A/B Testing Setup
- 19: Analytics & Metrics Definition
- 20: Launch Readiness Review
- 21: Post-Launch Monitoring
- 22: Continuous Improvement Loop
- 23: Documentation & Handoff
- 24: Success Metrics Evaluation
- 25: Future Roadmap Planning
- 26: Completion
Step 00: Onboarding & Session Configuration
Intro
This step establishes our shared context by understanding your customer's world and strategic objectives.
Product Concept
We ground our design process in deep customer understanding and align on the "what" and "why."
Actions
I ingest and validate all key inputs to configure our design session and align on our goals.
Deliverables
This step delivers a comprehensive session configuration, forming the foundation for our creative process.
Step 01: Value Tree Analysis & Global PRD
Intro
We analyze your product's complete Value Tree to understand the ecosystem and create a global PRD.
Product Concept
We apply systems thinking to move from a feature-level view to a holistic, ecosystem-level understanding.
Actions
I analyze the Value Tree, map solution dependencies, and generate a strategic Global PRD.
Deliverables
This step delivers a comprehensive ecosystem analysis and a strategic vision for your entire product.
Step 02: Map User Journeys & Extract DOS Opportunities
Intro
We map the complete user journey to understand their experience and focus our designs on what matters most.
Product Concept
We combine Job Stories and User Journey Maps to visualize the end-to-end customer experience.
Actions
I create detailed Job Stories and User Journey Maps, linking them to key Desired Outcome Statements.
Deliverables
This step delivers an empathetic understanding of the user's experience and their highest-level goals.
Step 03: Design System & Component Prompts
Intro
We create a world-class design system and a library of component prompts for consistency and speed.
Product Concept
We apply Atomic Design principles to create a hierarchical system of reusable design components.
Actions
I create a persona-optimized design system and generate detailed LLM prompts for each component.
Deliverables
This step delivers a complete design system and a powerful tool for accelerating development.
Step 04: Inclusive Design (Internationalization & Accessibility)
Intro
We ensure our designs are globally accessible to all users, languages, and abilities.
Product Concept
We treat inclusivity as a core design principle, creating a product that is truly localized.
Actions
I create a comprehensive set of inclusive design specifications compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
Deliverables
This step delivers a clear guide for making your product accessible to a global audience.
Step 05: Design AHA Moments & Hook Model
Intro
We design the "AHA moment" and the "Hook Model" to turn initial interest into a long-term habit.
Product Concept
We use the Hook Model to build a habit-forming product by optimizing the user's time-to-value.
Actions
I design a complete Hook Model loop and optimize the onboarding flow to deliver the "AHA moment" quickly.
Deliverables
This step delivers a behavioral design system for creating an engaging and habit-forming product.
Step 06: Design Product-Led Growth Engine
Intro
We design a Product-Led Growth (PLG) engine to turn your users into your best salespeople.
Product Concept
We build growth directly into the product by designing viral loops and network effects.
Actions
I design a comprehensive PLG engine, mapping out all growth loops and collaboration features.
Deliverables
This step delivers a blueprint for sustainable, exponential growth driven by the product itself.
Step 07: Design Multi-User Experiences
Intro
We design multi-user experiences to transform your product into a collaborative ecosystem.
Product Concept
We design for group dynamics, encouraging and rewarding collaboration to build a community.
Actions
I design a comprehensive set of multi-user features, including real-time collaboration and team workspaces.
Deliverables
This step delivers a complete design for a product that is not just a tool, but a thriving community.
Step 08: Create Comprehensive Content Design System
Intro
We create a content design system to ensure every word in your product is clear, concise, and consistent.
Product Concept
Content is a core part of the design process, ensuring strategic and user-centered communication.
Actions
I create a complete content design system, defining your brand's voice, tone, and microcopy guidelines.
Deliverables
This step delivers a foundation for a product that communicates beautifully and effectively.
Step 09: Design Premium Experiences
Intro
We design premium experiences and moments of delight to make your product unforgettable.
Product Concept
We create a rewarding experience through gamification, personalization, and emotional design.
Actions
I design a comprehensive premium experience, including gamification, personalization, and "delight moments."
Deliverables
This step delivers a plan for a product that is a source of motivation, delight, and connection.
Step 10: Design Metrics Framework
Intro
We design a comprehensive metrics framework to track progress and make data-driven decisions.
Product Concept
We use the HEART and GSM frameworks to ensure we are measuring what truly matters to users.
Actions
I create a detailed metrics framework for each solution, defining user-centered metrics.
Deliverables
This step delivers an actionable plan for measuring your product's success.
Step 11: Design Information Architecture
Intro
We design the information architecture (IA) to make your product intuitive and easy to navigate.
Product Concept
We create a user-centered structure that helps users understand where they are and what they can do.
Actions
I design a comprehensive IA, including navigation, search patterns, and content hierarchy.
Deliverables
This step delivers a blueprint for organizing your product in a scalable and user-friendly way.
Step 12: Comprehensive UX Flows
Intro
We create comprehensive UX flows to ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience.
Product Concept
We design for the user's mental model, mapping both happy and unhappy paths.
Actions
I design complete, screen-by-screen task flows for each feature, including edge cases.
Deliverables
This step delivers a detailed architectural plan for your product's user experience.
Step 13: Visual Designs & HTML Implementations
Intro
We bring our UX flows to life with beautiful, responsive visual designs and production-ready code.
Product Concept
We create a design that is aesthetically pleasing, functional, performant, and accessible.
Actions
I create responsive visual designs, generate HTML/CSS, and provide Figma-compatible exports.
Deliverables
This step delivers a high-fidelity, interactive prototype and all necessary design assets.
Step 14: Design Validation Experiments
Intro
We design validation experiments to test our core assumptions with real users before coding.
Product Concept
We use lean, low-fidelity experiments to gather real-world data on our solution's viability.
Actions
I design a controlled experiment for each critical assumption and compile them into a "Validation Handbook."
Deliverables
This step delivers an actionable plan for testing your core assumptions with real users.
Step 15: AI Performance Simulations
Intro
We run AI-powered simulations to predict the performance of our solutions before we build them.
Product Concept
We use agent-based modeling and Monte Carlo simulations to create a predictive model of our product.
Actions
I build a system dynamics model and run thousands of simulations to forecast potential outcomes.
Deliverables
This step delivers a data-driven forecast of your product's potential adoption and performance.
Step 16: Assess Impact and Confidence
Intro
We assess the potential impact and confidence of each solution based on our business objectives.
Product Concept
We combine strategic weights from our Value Tree with probabilistic forecasts from our simulations.
Actions
I calculate global_impact, p_exceed_okrs, and p_confidence scores for each solution.
Deliverables
This step delivers a data-driven ranking of your solutions based on their total strategic value.
Step 17: Calculate Effort and Reach for RICE Scoring
Intro
We calculate the "Effort" and "Reach" components of the RICE scoring framework.
Product Concept
We use an AI-powered approach to estimate "agentic coder hours" for a more objective measure of effort.
Actions
I estimate the agentic coder hours and calculate the addressable user reach for each solution.
Deliverables
This step delivers a detailed, data-driven analysis of the cost and potential audience for each idea.
Step 18: Generate RICE-Prioritized Implementation Roadmap
Intro
We use the RICE scoring framework to create our final, prioritized implementation roadmap.
Product Concept
The RICE framework allows us to make smart, objective decisions about what to build next.
Actions
I calculate the final RICE score for each solution and create a prioritized implementation roadmap.
Deliverables
This step delivers a clear, data-driven, and actionable blueprint for your product development.
Step 19: Strategic Decisions on Low-RICE Solutions
Intro
We make strategic decisions about the solutions that didn't make the RICE cut.
Product Concept
A good roadmap is also about what you consciously choose not to build.
Actions
I analyze low-RICE solutions for hidden strategic value and recommend to keep, defer, test, or cut.
Deliverables
This step delivers a clear, strategic plan for your low-priority solutions.
Step 20: Generate Comprehensive PRDs
Intro
We generate comprehensive Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for each solution.
Product Concept
A great PRD is a clear, concise, and compelling guide for the development team.
Actions
I generate a standard PRD and platform-specific PRDs for Claude Code, AI Studio, and N8N.
Deliverables
This step delivers a complete, platform-optimized blueprint for your product.
Step 21: Design Fake Door Landing Pages
Intro
We design "fake door" landing pages to validate demand before we build.
Product Concept
"Fake door" testing is a powerful way to measure real-world purchase intent for a non-existent product.
Actions
I design high-converting landing pages with pricing experiments and generate the full HTML.
Deliverables
This step delivers a powerful tool for validating demand and optimizing pricing before development.
Step 22: Define Completion Criteria & Validate Design Completeness
Intro
We perform a final quality check to ensure our designs meet our high standards of excellence.
Product Concept
We apply quality assurance principles to ensure the design is consistent and ready for development.
Actions
I create a comprehensive completion checklist and conduct a thorough review of all design work.
Deliverables
This step delivers a validation report assessing the completeness and quality of your design.
Step 23: Real-World Validation Handbook
Intro
We create a "Validation Handbook" to guide the process of testing our designs with real users.
Product Concept
We create an actionable plan to validate our core assumptions before investing in development.
Actions
I compile all designed validation experiments into a single, comprehensive handbook.
Deliverables
This step delivers a clear, actionable plan for testing your core assumptions with real users.
Step 24: Collect Validation Results & Recommend Next Steps
Intro
We analyze the results of our validation experiments to make final, data-driven decisions.
Product Concept
We close the "build-measure-learn" loop to refine our strategy with evidence-based recommendations.
Actions
I analyze all experiment results, update confidence scores, and make a "go/pivot/kill" decision for each solution.
Deliverables
This step delivers a validation synthesis report with final recommendations and a clear plan forward.
Step 25: Celebrate Success & Create Executive Summary
Intro
We celebrate our success and create a high-impact executive summary to share our journey.
Product Concept
We tell a compelling, data-driven story about how we transformed a problem into an elegant solution.
Actions
I create a C-level executive summary highlighting key outcomes, savings, and confidence gains.
Deliverables
This step delivers a powerful tool for communicating the value of your work to stakeholders.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Integration Assessment
We have transformed a deep customer understanding into a portfolio of beautiful, validated, and production-ready designs.
Case Study Conclusion
Sage now has a portfolio of elegant, validated solutions, a complete design system, and a data-driven plan for the future.
Appendix
Appendix
Input/Output Variables
This document lists all the input and output variables for the PDM master prompt.
Input Variables
Global Variables
These variables are available throughout the master's execution.
workflow_state_machine: Tracks master workflow execution state including mode flags and step completion statusmm_debug: Enable debug loggingmm_user_data: User profile and preferencesmm_log: Execution log entriesmm_mem: Learning journalmm_hypotheses: Validation trackingmm_initiative: Initiative-related attributespdm_design_system_json: Master design system configurationpdm_job_stories_json: JTBD-driven job stories and user journeyspdm_engineering_handoff_json: Consolidated engineering specifications for ACMpdm_engineering_handoff: Human-readable engineering specificationspdm_prd_global: Global PRD capturing overarching product visionpdm_dos_opportunities_json: DOS statements in standard formatpdm_component_prompts_json: LLM prompts for agentic component generationpdm_aha_moment_design_json: Time-to-value optimization patternspdm_hypothesis_control_table: Consolidated hypothesis tracking with baselines and targetspdm_validation_handbook: Complete validation playbookpdm_validation_results_json: Results from validation experiments
Step 00: Onboarding & Session Configuration
These variables are the primary inputs for the master, provided at the beginning of the process.
mm_initiative: Initiative contextmm_okrs_json: User's OKRs driving all optimization decisionsmm_roadmaps_json: Solution roadmaps from SDMmm_odir_json: Opportunity-driven innovation roadmap with full value treemm_job_executors_json: Detailed personas from CDM with demographics, psychographics, HXC flagscdm_empathy_maps: Complete empathy maps for all personasmm_audiences_json: Job executors with execution contexts and market analysismm_jtbd_json: Jobs-to-be-done with universal job mapmm_job_executors_icp_json: Ideal Customer Profile (B2B only)
Output Variables
These variables are created or updated by the PDM master during its execution.
pdm_session_config_json: Session configuration and contextpdm_value_tree_analysis_json: Complete product context analysispdm_product_context_analysis: Visual product scope analysispdm_prd_global: Global product requirements documentpdm_wardley_maps: Visual Wardley maps of solution evolutionpdm_job_stories_json: JTBD-driven job storiespdm_dos_opportunities_json: DOS in standard formatpdm_job_breakdowns: Job breakdowns with storiespdm_job_story_maps: Visual journey mapspdm_design_recommendations_json: Persona-optimized design recommendationspdm_design_system_json: Master design system configurationpdm_component_prompts_json: LLM prompts for componentspdm_design_system_guide: Comprehensive design system documentationpdm_current_design_recommendations: Design style recommendations for this sessionpdm_current_design_system: Your selected design system specificationspdm_inclusive_design_json: Combined i18n + a11y specificationspdm_inclusive_guidelines: Comprehensive inclusive design guidepdm_accessibility_audit_json: WCAG compliance checklistpdm_cultural_adaptations_json: Region-specific variationspdm_hook_model_json: Complete habit loop designpdm_aha_moment_design_json: AHA moment specificationspdm_time_to_value_optimization: Time-to-value journeypdm_interaction_motion_json: Combined interaction + motion specspdm_trigger_matrix: Trigger types and timingpdm_animation_library: Animation patterns guidepdm_growth_loops_json: PLG engine specificationspdm_network_effects: Network value designpdm_onboarding_flows_json: Activation sequencespdm_viral_mechanics: Sharing and growth featurespdm_social_features_json: Multi-user experience specspdm_collaboration_patterns: Multi-user design patternspdm_team_dynamics_json: Team behavior patternspdm_content_system_json: Complete content design systempdm_content_guidelines: Content design guidelinespdm_conversation_flows_json: Conversational UI patternspdm_gamification_json: Gamification and progression systempdm_premium_experiences: Premium and delightful experience designpdm_personalization_engine_json: Personalization rules and patternspdm_delight_moments_json: Delight and animation specspdm_solution_metrics: Metrics framework for all solutions (single file with H2 headers)pdm_solution_metrics_json: Structured metrics for each solutionpdm_information_architecture_json: Complete IA structurepdm_ia_documentation: Information architecture guidepdm_sitemap_json: Complete sitemap structurepdm_solution_ux_flows: Comprehensive UX flows for all solutionspdm_ux_flow_diagrams_json: Structured flow datapdm_solution_html_designs: HTML designs for all solutions (single file with H2 headers)pdm_solution_figma_export: Figma-compatible exports (single file with H2 headers)pdm_visual_design_specs_json: Detailed visual specificationspdm_figma_design_tokens_json: Design tokens for Figma import (W3C DTCG format)pdm_figma_component_specs_json: Component specifications for Figmapdm_hypothesis_control_table: Consolidated hypothesis trackingpdm_experiments_design_json: Detailed experiment specificationspdm_simulation_results_json: AI simulation outcomespdm_performance_predictions: AI simulation insightspdm_risk_mitigation_json: Risk factors and mitigationspdm_impact_assessment_json: Impact calculationspdm_impact_confidence_matrix: Impact and confidence analysispdm_effort_reach_assessment_json: Effort and reach calculationspdm_effort_reach_analysis: Detailed effort and reach breakdownpdm_rice_roadmap_json: Prioritized roadmap datapdm_implementation_roadmap: Visual implementation roadmappdm_roadmap_alternatives_json: Alternative sequencing optionspdm_strategic_decisions_json: Strategic solution decisionspdm_strategic_analysis: Strategic decision frameworkpdm_prd: Standard PRDs (single file, H1 for Global, H2 for solutions)pdm_prd_claude_code: Claude Code optimized PRDs (single file, H1 + H2 headers)pdm_prd_ai_studio: AI Studio optimized PRDs (single file, H1 + H2 headers)pdm_prd_n8n: N8N workflow PRDs (single file, H1 + H2 headers, agents only)pdm_prd_generation_log_json: Track PRD generation for each solutionpdm_fake_door_pages_html: Complete landing page HTMLpdm_fake_door_pricing: Pricing strategy and testingpdm_fake_door_copy: Conversion-focused copywritingpdm_completion_criteria_json: Structured completion checklistpdm_design_validation: Comprehensive validation reportpdm_validation_handbook: Complete validation playbookpdm_validation_tracking_json: Experiment tracking systempdm_validation_results_json: Validation experiment outcomespdm_validation_synthesis: Results analysis and recommendationspdm_updated_roadmap_json: Revised roadmap based on validationpdm_executive_summary: C-suite and investor ready summarypdm_success_metrics_json: Final success calculationspdm_celebration_plan: Success celebration framework