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Mateo Szymkowicz
Design partner for founders with underperforming products
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“Duolingo does it” is one of the easiest ways to make a weak product decision sound researched.
Someone suggests a feature.
Someone else points to Duolingo.
Now the idea feels validated.
I saw this happen during a product review. The reference gave us a useful example of how...
Thinking about turning one of my basement rooms into a proper studio.
My main desk is in the living room right now, so work and life blend into each other all day. A room downstairs would give them some distance.
Two directions below. Curious which one you'd actually spend time in
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Most apps get one photoshoot, then watch the brand slide out of shape as every picture after it comes back looking a little different.
This project fixed that. Built a repeatable photo style for the app's brand using @Krea , so the team can make new shots any time and they still...
Open almost any app with a stats screen and you hit the same miss. It counts something, then leaves you to work out why you should care.
"400 hours" and "400 hours reclaimed" are the same number. One reads as a metric. The other is a small win the user gets to own.
Most...
Every A/B test on a new feature is a rollback problem for future you.
Push it to half your users, then kill it, and now you're unwinding a feature people already got used to.
Weight it. 20 percent on the new thing, 80 on what you trust. Slower to read, but nothing to rip out of most users' hands later.