Using Your Own Products
summary
Company runs three apps for customers, riders and restaurants and grows to almost 2,000 employees with 320 on the tech team. Designers log real courier shifts, document emotional pain (cold, sweating, bike security) and ship a feature to report long waits and reject slow orders; that solves one of four identified pains. A tiny confetti tipping UI increases tips. Claim: using the product firsthand reveals non-obvious fixes that metrics or lab research alone miss.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to using own products
- 4:43Why dogfooding matters
- 7:14Empathy beyond surface use
- 12:36Emotional impact of products
- 16:57Data vs personal experience
- 18:43Getting into the trenches
- 25:24Your superpower as designer
