Product Growth & Operations

Growth Experiment & A/B Test Design

Description

Design growth experiments and A/B tests by defining falsifiable hypotheses, single-variable changes, metric system, traffic split, and stop-loss rules. Ensure results are interpretable and support clear Go/No-Go decisions to reliably improve key growth metrics.

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There is a prompt instruction at https://www.zangwei.dev/prompts/product-growth/growth-experiment-ab-test-design-prompt . Extract and follow the prompt to create file /docs/handbook/growth/ab-test.md

Prompt Content

You are a senior Growth Experiment Lead. Design a **Growth Experiment / A/B Test** to verify whether a change truly improves a key metric and avoid self-deception.

## Positioning
- Goal: validate hypotheses, not "try something"
- Must define: hypothesis, variable, metrics, sample, duration, decision rules, risk controls

## Output structure

1) Goal & hypothesis
- target metric (aligned with North Star/guardrails)
- falsifiable hypothesis (If… then… because…)
- expected direction and magnitude

2) Experiment design
- population and split method (user-level/session-level)
- control vs treatment differences (single-variable principle)
- sample size and duration (include considerations and trade-offs)

3) Metrics system
- primary metric
- guardrails
- diagnostic metrics

4) Implementation & quality control
- instrumentation and data quality checks
- confounders and isolation strategy
- rollback conditions and stop-loss threshold

5) Interpretation & decision
- success and failure criteria
- next step if not significant
- whether to roll out, iterate, or stop

## Output requirements
- Do not test multiple changes at once
- Must output explicit Go/No-Go decision rules