Lyric is a 0 to 1 startup building the World's first AI Studio for Supply Chain Domain. It is being built as a next-generation "B2B Enterprise" product. Building an enterprise product is complex but also exciting and challenging. And design plays a significant role in bringing the complexity down (to as lowest as possible). And where there is a challenge, there's an opportunity to be excited and to learn!
Being in an early-stage startup, we would get requests from all eight directions. It is necessary to align regularly with the business, users and engineering. Each team come with their context, and the design needs to ask the relevant questions to help them.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, it is wise to figure out the existing solutions and how we can build on them. Also, we should be smart enough to decide when to make things ourselves!
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Lyric as a product could be a complex one for enterprises; it is essential to keep the experience for the user simple, functional, accessible and intuitive. Designs being consistent across the studio helps to achieve the above-said goals.
Building a product can be rocket science if we assume too much. When in doubt, reach out to respective stakeholders, product managers, and developers to ask, learn and iterate. Designing on assumptions can be an experiment only when we have no data to move forward.
Design and done is a fixed mindset. As a designer, we need to see through it thoroughly until production. It's everyone's job to ensure the experience is delivered to the user as intended. As the product designer, we own the product's experience to be fulfilled and take the ownership mantle.
Beautiful products bring users closer to the product. Lyric will be used by users every day to solve complex solutions. Like making it simple enough, the design has to ensure it looks beautiful, and it is a pleasure to work with.