List Design SkillsVishnu Gopal

List your teams’ Design Skills

Why?

Because: good design is now crucial to

a product’s success.

Why?

All users expect a measure of basic

usability.

+ they are impressed with

standout design.

Earlier: design used to be a

differentiator.

Now: good, even great design is a pre-

requisite.

Observation from previous batches is that teams that

can’t grok good UX and visual design

Can’t build impressive

prototypes, and so…

… can’t attract enough

user/investor/mentor attention…

… leading to poor performance in the

batch.

Focus on great design from day 1.

So first, understand where your team stands in terms of

design.

Format to list:

Submit a spreadsheet:

Design Domain

Founder 1 Name

Founder 2 Name

Founder N Name

Usability Good Beginner No Knowledge

User Experience Great Good Beginner

Visual Design (Illustrations)

Awesome. See: [URL] Good Beginner

Visual Design (Motion

Graphics)Good Good Great

Technology & Tools Good Good Beginner

Also write down your insight in your timeline entry or as part of your

submission.

Insight = new learning, action items or other todo tasks.

All because you performed this task.

Insight pointers: if you submit a generally bad

design matrix, how would you improve?

Insight pointers: if there is a specific area you do not have expertise in, how would you

improve?

Don’t forget to check the Rubric for

pointers.