ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder
ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder
ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder
- No tags were found...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Do the same and your startup will flourish and growrapidly. Sounds simple right? Un<strong>for</strong>tunately, sometimesthe road is unpleasantly rough. Measuring humanbehavior in a startup is hard to do and easy to <strong>for</strong>get.I’ve recently had a conversation (not the first one of itssort) on why the results of the work of a very talented<strong>design</strong>er don’t bring home the bacon (happy users andmoney). The <strong>design</strong> looks great, most of the decisionsare backed up with reasonable argumentation, it’sshiny, personal and seems to be clever. What could bewrong? Why doesn’t it simply fly?It’s very easy to lose faith in the <strong>design</strong>er’s talent, theusers, or, God <strong>for</strong>bid, the <strong>design</strong> itself. Too easy. Wehave this inner urge to blame, but believe me - that’snot the right path to take. This shiny <strong>design</strong> mighthave a certain value, it just doesn’t per<strong>for</strong>m wellenough. Blaming the <strong>design</strong>er would only obscure thepicture. Perhaps we’re just one small tweak away froma great-looking, high-per<strong>for</strong>mance interface. Howcould we know this, if not by carefully measuringper<strong>for</strong>mance, gathering the right data and drawing agrowth and <strong>design</strong> hacking83