Throughout a validated learning approach, you’ll be constantly telling stories about who your users are, what they’re doing, and why. You’ll use story maps to tell bigger stories about how people work today, and how you imagine they’ll use your solution. When it comes time to build prototypes, you’ll use stories and story conversations to agree specifically on what the prototype you’re building should look like, and what you’ll check to confirm the prototype is done. After you understand that stories are a way of working, you’ll find it’s difficult to tell when you are or aren’t using them.
