Illustration of exploration and discovery representing the product design assessment journey

Hey Nick 2 from Canoe!

Thanks for sharing your perspective. We’ve crunched the numbers, connected the dots, and the results are ready. Time to see how your product and team stacks up in the wild.

Score

40

Your product is: Usability-Focused

You care about user experience and have made products easier to understand and use. Design and research are present, and usability issues are addressed, but adoption remains uneven across teams or user groups. Ownership for onboarding, training, communication, and support may be unclear, leading to inconsistent outcomes. You are improving how the product feels, but value creation is still fragile. Clearer ownership, shared success measures, and stronger cross-functional alignment would help translate good usability into sustained use.

Sample actions to improve in the next 90 days

  1. Map the full adoption journey and agree ownership for each step across teams.
  2. Introduce a shared adoption metric and review it monthly with business, tech, and design present.
  3. Pilot a structured onboarding flow for one product and measure its impact on usage.

Options to dive deeper with Canoe:

Adoption Discovery Sprint (2 weeks)
We focus on one product or service and map where adoption breaks down, using hands-on tools and real user insight.

Adoption-driven roadmap
A clear Now / Next / Later plan that aligns product, business, and operations around adoption and outcomes.

Book a short results review
30 minutes. We walk through your score and share 1–2 tailored ideas. No strings attached.

Some free canvas resources to help you get started!

Align your project and move forward with purpose. Clarity drives action.
The GROW Canvas helps teams define success, understand their current reality, explore opportunities, and commit to meaningful next steps. An ideal canvas to build a backlog and implementing valuable change.
Unlock your team’s full potential!
Strong teams don’t just happen—they’re shaped by clarity, alignment, and shared understanding. The CORE Team Canvas helps teams articulate who they are, what they aim to achieve, and how they’ll work together to get there.
Understand and engage key stakeholders.
The persona canvas is designed to help product teams, understand and engage their key stakeholders. By visualising each stakeholder as a persona, teams build a shared understanding of who they’re working with and how best to involve them.
Make a plan
Great planning sets teams up for clarity, momentum, and impact. The Annual Planning Wheel makes it easy to map out the year ahead, breaking time into structured, intuitive chunks using week numbers widely used in Norway and Scandinavia.
Trond Dagsland, Co-founder and CEO at Canoe

Ready to move from intent to impact?

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Trond Dagsland