Jain: Having product designers from day one would have accelerated 11x development
Prabhav Jain · The Future of Digital Workers · Mar 20, 2025 · at 20:52
Prabhav Jain is the CTO of 11x, an AI digital worker platform. He reflects on organizational and product strategy decisions made during the company's early stages.
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“I think we hired a designer too late. And I think that's one thing I think we would have changed if I could go back, is like, have them very, very involved, like, from day one of the process. Because that's, it determines exactly how the user is experiencing your product. A lot of times that actually changes what we build. The actual experience the user has sort of under the hood. And so, you know, one thing, and now we have, you know, great designers on the team, but if you started with that, it probably accelerated our development quite a bit.”
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