When product designers become power users

July 17, 2014

Originally published on Medium. Reposted here with the original date.

When you design your app and test it internally for weeks or even months, you have already become a power user.

You are thinking as a power user.

Every one of you in your startup are power users of your product. But not the ones who installed your app a day ago.

Version 2.0 should be leaner.

Version 1.0 is essentially your beta… Your 2.0 should remove useless hooks and make the app leaner.

When to push features.

Once your app is in the market, features are no more decided by the product designer…