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Derek Briggs

What Derek Briggs thinks about product management

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Designer and developer. Principal designer at Shopify; before that head of design at Hypermode (with Kevin Van Gundy, acquired) and, in 2024, Director of Design at Clerk.

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  1. I think people need to be ruthless around knowing and being confident that the solutions that they're designing and shipping are meeting the goals that they set out to achieve. If you're shipping something without any sort of data around its success, I don't understand how you'll be able to know if what you did was the right thing for the company or not.

    ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 8th of 13 in this recording

  2. 3 years earlier
  3. I just really don't want to build a new dashboard behind a feature flag and one day flip it over. I'd much rather give users that value now and those improvements now and deal with the inconsistencies

    ↗Derek Briggs - Creating a design culture of craft (Dive Club Ep. 34)youtube.com 4th of 7 in this recording