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Belsky: Keeping a product simple over time is harder than initial design

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Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer at Adobe, discusses the challenge product leaders face in maintaining product simplicity as software scales.

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“Making a simple product that's great is one thing, but keeping it simple is an entirely different thing”

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