Ex-Meta VP Reveals His Top Lessons from 25 Years Leading Product Design | Jon Lax (Meta)

Name: Ex-Meta VP Reveals His Top Lessons from 25 Years Leading Product Design | Jon Lax (Meta)
Uploaded: 2024-09-01
Duration: 2823 s
Channel: Peter Yang
Description: Read a transcript preview of “Ex-Meta VP Reveals His Top Lessons from 25 Years Leading Product Design | Jon Lax (Meta)” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2024-09-01.

Channel: Peter Yang

Uploaded: 2024-09-01

Duration: PT2823S

Read a transcript preview of “Ex-Meta VP Reveals His Top Lessons from 25 Years Leading Product Design | Jon Lax (Meta)” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2024-09-01.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] teams would come to me with we have to

[0:02] make sure there's Delight in this

[0:03] product and I'd be like yo you haven't

[0:05] even shipped anything yet like you

[0:06] haven't even figured out like what your

[0:08] product is and you're busy trying to

[0:10] figure out the physics of the like

[0:12] easing curve of this like button press

[0:16] and I'm like that's no like we don't

[0:18] even know what this product is yet like

[0:20] and I've always really loved the idea

[0:24] that you first start with making

[0:27] something that's useful and necessary

[0:29] like should this exist in the world is

[0:31] it useful right and if you can get that

[0:35] nailed down okay now make it beautiful

[0:39] like now like take the time to really

[0:41] make it beautiful often designers will

[0:43] jump to the last part before doing the

[0:45] first like this thing people can't even

[0:47] use this yet or no one's using this yet

[0:50] and it's not that the easing curve on

[0:52] the button is going to make it more

[0:53] useful I can tell you with high

[0:55] certainty that a lot of the things that

[0:57] designers care about the larger

[0:59] populations don't care as much about

[1:01] that doesn't mean you should go make

[1:02] badly crafted products but you have to

[1:06] figure out where you're spending your

[1:08] time and energy and when you're spending

[1:09] it there I spent a lot of time in my

[1:11] career trying to get that last 10% and

[1:14] learning that often it didn't add that

[1:17] much to people's satisfaction with the

[1:19] product and I've actually dialed it back

[1:21] a lot and actually found i' made better

[1:24] products faster cuz the thing is it

[1:26] takes time to do all those things and

[1:28] that's time that your p