If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that. Cliches aside, I often hear this from Product Owners, a short time before launch. Perhaps you are in this situation right now and wondering what to do. Invariably, you have received some kind of feedback on the UX UI design from early adopters, advisors, prospects, or worse – potential investors.  While 2 weeks may be an exaggeration, you have anywhere between a few weeks to a very few months to upgrade your UX UI design before launch. The designer you spoke to – perhaps an agency or a freelancer – told you in no uncertain terms that it takes several weeks to months for a major design overhaul — and that’s just for the design changes and your development team starts talking schedules for implementation and your eyes start to glaze over. While they all may be right, you don’t have that kind of budget and more importantly time. Everyone acknowledges that UX UI design ideally is done at the beginning of the product lifecycle and is very difficult to retrofit after the fact. Perhaps this was how you started, or perhaps you didn’t. How we got here is […] read more

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that. Cliches aside, I often hear this from Product Owners, a short time before launch. Perhaps you are in this situation right now and wondering what to do. Invariably, you have received some kind of feedback on the UX UI design from early adopters, advisors, prospects, or worse – potential investors.  While 2 weeks may be an exaggeration, you have anywhere between a few weeks to a very few months to upgrade your UX UI design before launch. The designer you spoke to – perhaps an agency or a freelancer – told you in no uncertain terms that it takes several weeks to months for a major design overhaul — and that’s just for the design changes and your development team starts talking schedules for implementation and your eyes start to glaze over. While they all may be right, you don’t have that kind of budget and more importantly time. Everyone acknowledges that UX UI design ideally is done at the beginning of the product lifecycle and is very difficult to retrofit after the fact. Perhaps this was how you started, or perhaps you didn’t. How we got here is […] read more

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that. Cliches aside, I often hear this from Product Owners, a short time before launch. Perhaps you are in this situation right now and wondering what to do. Invariably, you have received some kind of feedback on the UX UI design from early adopters, advisors, prospects, or worse – potential investors.  While 2 weeks may be an exaggeration, you have anywhere between a few weeks to a very few months to upgrade your UX UI design before launch. The designer you spoke to – perhaps an agency or a freelancer – told you in no uncertain terms that it takes several weeks to months for a major design overhaul — and that’s just for the design changes and your development team starts talking schedules for implementation and your eyes start to glaze over. While they all may be right, you don’t have that kind of budget and more importantly time. Everyone acknowledges that UX UI design ideally is done at the beginning of the product lifecycle and is very difficult to retrofit after the fact. Perhaps this was how you started, or perhaps you didn’t. How we got here is […] read more