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Product design can be broadly defined as the process of visualizing, designing, building, and shipping a product that solves a problem multiple users face and goes on to fill a gap in the market. It combines a diverse set of skills and is perhaps the single most important ingredient in making a product successful.
The greatest products often have five elements in common. Utility, or whether the product solves a particular user group’s problem. Reliability, or ensuring your product performs consistently well for users. Usability, or designing a product that is easy and almost intuitive to use. Pleasurability, or understanding if using your product delights users. Desirability, or judging if the product is good enough to inspire ownership pride.
Although multiple iterations exist, there are 4 steps at the core of all product design. Ideation, or the process of considering multiple ideas and honing on one. Research, gathering precedents and parallels to your product and defining your process’s best practices. Development, or actually building the product with the language or code framework you choose. And Launch, or going to market with a working version that solves user issues and fills a gap in the market.
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