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Cost of Design and how it plays a factor for product success

Name: Cost of Design and how it plays a factor for product success
Uploaded: 2024-05-13T22:48:25+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Ritzie Williams
Description: Product success depends on calculating real development costs, including salaries for designers and developers, then matching those against expected…

13 May 2024 · 1 min

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Product success depends on calculating real development costs, including salaries for designers and developers, then matching those against expected revenue. Strong UX design reduces the risk of expensive failure by ensuring the product actually works for users and meets what they need.

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You have to think about a realistic cost, right? So even in, in your product itself is gonna cost because you have employees at your business or people working at it and you have how long it takes. So if you think about how much it costs to pay someone's salary for X amount of time, you have X amount of people, right? So you have the designers, the developers, you have the product managers, you have all the people, right? So there is a cost associated with building features and products and Then you have an expected return of investment. So how much money that feature or that application or product is going to make, right? One of the goals of UX is to mitigate risk and the risk being you design something and it completely failing. Having a UX design team, you really try to make sure that it is usable, that it will be used, it aligns with your user's expectations and things like that. So there's a couple ways of doing this.