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Product design at scale: Short- and long-term design thinking

Product design at scale: Short- and long-term design thinking

From the course: Practical UX Weekly: Season One

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Product design at scale: Short- and long-term design thinking

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- During design phases, it's easy to get lost in the details. While I'm incredibly passionate about those details, as we talk about scaling a product, our business partners want to make sure that this is a product that can evolve. So if you're designing a product that has to live on for years, go international, and cascade into many different business opportunities, then this is the movie for you. As a UX designer, it's important that we don't back ourselves into a corner with a particular design feature or solution that is closed off from the rest of the site. Let me give you an example. We once implemented a follow feature on Lynda.com. You were able to follow an author, a category, or even a software. By following something, you would be essentially telling us that you want to be notified and presented this new content when it's released. This was a pretty exciting feature we wanted to test, however, we were going through some organizational changes, and the team wasn't able to…

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