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Discovering the Wrong Direction Before Building It

With nearly 500 customer upvotes pointing at template pain points, the MCM team had a clear feature to build. A 5-day design sprint in Sydney revealed that the system's own incentive structure would prevent anyone from using it.

"In five days, we learned something that would have taken us months to discover after shipping."

-- Vineeth Varghese, Software Development Manager
Role
Sr. UX Designer & Sprint Facilitator
Timeline
1 week (Aug 2024)
Team
1 Designer, 4 SDEs, 1 SDM, 1 Stakeholder
Impact
Prevented building the wrong feature

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Luke Montgomery — Product Designer