Design Trade-off Formula
Have you ever been in a situation where you were at a fork in the road and have to make a design decision about implementation, design, or strategy? How did you end up making the choice? Was the decision based on intuition, user data, or maybe feedback from the most seasoned member on your team? It's not easy making these decisions. This episode is about having a method and a checklist of considerations to work through before making design trade-offs.
A design trade-off is when you have to make a compromise on one thing so you can have another thing that's more important.
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Objectives of this video
Have you ever been in a situation where you were at a fork in the road and you have to make a design decision about the implementation, design, or strategy? How did you end up making the choice? Was the decision based on intuition, feedback, user data, or maybe from listening from the most seasoned member on your team? It's not easy making these decisions.
This episode is about having a method and a checklist of considerations to work through before making design trade-offs.
A Design trade-off is when you have to make a compromise on one thing so you can get another that's more important. The problem is we can't always get everything we design. It's not practical.
"Having a systematic approach to how you handle these decisions will set you up for a higher success rate will give you the opportunity to expand your maturity around design."
Because the design decisions you make have a long-lasting impact both positively and negatively on you, your team, the product, and its users.
Learning outcomes
- Leverage a critical thinking formula for knowing how to breakdown design tradeoffs.
- Using this method to rationalize where to focus your energy
- Making decisions based on data both qualitative and quantitative
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