Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer

I've worked at two startups where hiring a product designer was more of an aspiration. Even after deciding we needed one, delays from interviews, notice periods, and onboarding meant at least three months of having to get things over the line, designer or not. me talking to my designer A common shortcut is using pre-built component libraries like Google's Material UI. They give you the building blocks, but they don’t think about the whole user flow for you. You still have to figure out how everything fits together. But a lot of the time, we weren’t doing novel things. If you look closely at most software products, you'll notice a lot of overlap in user flows. There's usually little reason to reinvent simple things like account creation or password resets. If your time should go toward what makes your product unique, how do you define a good user experience as quickly as possible? Blank pages are a trap Do not stare at a blank canvas wondering "Hm, ok how should the email field lo ... Read full article.