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First steps

So, this day has come. You have been nurturing your idea for over a year now and have discussed it with a whole bunch of people. It’s time to finally make your dreams come true and bring something new and useful to the world.

You can either do it yourself or have some professionals involved, but we strongly recommend being cautious about rushing your product to the development (but not too cautious — good timing sometimes accounts for 80% of success).

The main stages of product development

Okay, so here you are in an office or on a Zoom call with your PM and likely some other members of the team who will work on your project. Where do you all start? First of all, you need a proper Discovery phase.

When we work on some B2B or B2C solutions, clients usually care more about the functionality and the user experience rather than the design, so this UX can be rather simple design-wise.

— Adam Smith

Post-release activities

We still need to perform post-release QA because you never know what exactly can go wrong after the launch since some users are very inventive when it comes to finding new bugs. During the workshop, we discussed several important questions:

• How the success of the project will look like and how will we measure it;
• What challenges and constraints are we aware of at the project start;
• Which personas will our product have;
• What are their needs and expectations, goals, and pain points;