Lean #design For A Better MVP
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You don’t need to sacrifice design for speed.Tyler O’Briant and I are building Kowalla, a platform for creating, collaborating, and sharing projects in real-time. We’re both engineers, and every instinct we had told us to put our heads down and code our faces off. We just had one problem…Our first features were engineered, not designed; and it showed.▻https://medium.com/media/e25dc5597b84b177a8c4808e06cc9ccc/hrefWe took a step back and scratched our heads. We had a UI design only a mother could love.Traditional wisdom told us to get out the initial MVP as fast as possible, get features in front of users, and iterate. But were we sacrificing our design for speed?We decided our process would be design first, and building second. Taking an engineer’s approach to design, we focused on (...)