Mo Shafieeha

As a result, design principles are either misused, misinterpreted, or even abandoned because complex statements are hard to comprehend, apply, and remember. The 'Don't Make Me Think' principle by Steve Krug is straightforward and easy to remember. In order to speed up and simplify their design processes, Salesforce and Airbnb have developed... See more

If you want leaders, you might want to throw high-potential people into the water first. Executive development is probably a different game than individual contributor training. Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things has a chapter called 'Why Startups Should Train Their People,' in which he makes the same point. According to Horowitz, the... See more

Decision experiments do not need to model time sensitivity, so most decision-making frameworks do not consider time selection. Therefore, the value of taking action earlier is often obscured by uncertainty. Your decisiveness may influence the utility of each choice in real life. Ultimately, I realized I knew what needed to be done but didn't want... See more

Growth incentives Compound, an on-chain lending protocol, decentralized itself in June 2020, with its core developers turning over the network's operation and ownership. Community members had control over the protocol's reserve assets generated by borrowers in a Compound Governance DAO. This was (at the time) the highest revenue generated by an... See more

Roblox's new work model is based on individual responsibility, so teams and leaders can choose how they work.Roblox empowers and enables its employees to achieve its long-term vision of reimagining how people come together. Based on company surveys, focus groups, and one-on-one interviews, Robloxians have told them they value flexibility whether... See more

When leaders don't deliver what they promise, employees throw out or undermine the redesign effort. It's six times more likely for executives at these companies to "declare victory" than at companies that just have one or two golden rules.

Designing products that address fundamental user problems is what UX and product design have always meant to me. We ought to think of usable and useful products as providing the most of what user experience entails; foremost of all, meeting user needs. Because of this, it is important to understand product thinking.