Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a framework for understanding underlying customer motivations by focusing on what customers are trying to accomplish.
## Core Principle
Customers "hire" products to do specific "jobs" in their lives. Understanding these jobs helps create better solutions.
## Components
- **Functional Job:** What the user is trying to accomplish
- **Emotional Job:** How the user wants to feel
- **Social Job:** How the user wants to be perceived
## Usage
Used for product innovation and understanding deep user motivations. Helps identify unmet needs and create solutions that truly resonate with customers.
## Examples and Applications
- **Product Development:** Identify unmet customer needs
- **Feature Prioritization:** Build what customers truly need
- **Marketing:** Frame products around jobs they fulfill
- See also: [[CIRCLES]], [[Kano]], [[HEART]]