Every product team should have a list of principles that guide their decision making.
One of my favorite examples of this is from Instagram's founding team:
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Every product team should have a list of principles that guide their decision making. One of my favorite examples of this is from Instagram's founding team:
Get as many people together as possible and write down/agree to the principles that drive your product decision making. It’s easier to push back on bad ideas when you can point to something in writing.
from The Cost of Craft by George Kedenburg III
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Product principles are a set of values that your company uses to guide designs, evaluate solutions, and resolve difficult tradeoffs. They require extensive collaboration and buy-in to create, but once you have them, they'll simplify many future decisions.
from Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices To Become a Great Product Manager (Cracking the Interview & Career) by Jackie Bavaro
- Great Design is About Values
The biggest mistake I see designers make when building a brand for their company, a culture for their team, or foundation for their product is to focus on principles . They pile together a few basic words like: "Simple, Helpful, Beautiful, Intentional." Guess who else shares these principles? Everyone.
Principles are uni... See morefrom Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
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