From the course: Practical UX Weekly: Season Two

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The UX design trade-off formula

The UX design trade-off formula

- Have you ever been in a situation where you were at a fork in the road and have to make a design decision about implementation, design, or strategy? How did you end up making the choice? Was the decision based on intuition, user data, or maybe feedback from the most seasoned member on your team? It's not easy making these decisions. This episode is about having a method and a checklist of considerations to work through before making design trade-offs. A design trade-off is when you have to make a compromise on one thing so you can have another thing that's more important. The problem is we can't always get everything we design. It's not practical. Having a systematic approach to handle these decisions will set you up for a higher success rate and it will give you the opportunity to expand your maturity around design. Decisions are usually based on inputs. The first question I want you to ask is do you have the…

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