As Amplify scaled from 6 to 60 employees, they faced new challenges in maintaining their lean product design approach. When small, they emphasized sketch-to-code pairing and a tight collaboration using tools like a design wall. As they grew to 25 employees supporting multiple products, they adopted tools like flat UI, style tiles, and icon fonts to standardize design while allowing for flexibility. With 60 employees supporting many schools, they focused on a lean mindset with goal-oriented teams, embedded designers, and problem definition workshops to continue evolving products rapidly based on learning.
2. What do we mean by
Lean Product design?
• Continuously changing & evolving the product
• Prototyping, testing & feedback
• Pivoting based on learnings
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3. Lean has different challenges at different
project phases and team sizes.
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• finding a starting point
• moving fast
• lots of uncertainty & unknowns
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• pressure to plan
• many potential features
• changing is hard
• many more decision makers
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6. When we were small...
SKETCH-TO-CODE
DESIGNER-DEV PAIRING
LIGHT VISUAL DESIGN
TIGHT COLLABORATION
DESIGN WALL
10 PEOPLE
1 PRODUCT 1 SCHOOL
Lean Process
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17. As we became a large team...
GOAL-ORIENTED TEAMS
EMBEDDED DESIGNERS
PROBLEM DEFINITION
ORGANIZATION MINDSET
3 PRODUCTS
Lean Mindset
60 PEOPLE
10+ SCHOOLS
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