Katie Dill, Head of Design at Stripe, explains how product design and quality directly impact business metrics and conversion rates.
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Katie Dill: High-performing teams require PMs, engineers, and designers to sit together
“One of the things that I believe has, you know, a necessary part of building a high functioning Organization is that one, you know, building together is important. So like having engineers and product managers and designers be together, have shared goals and a…”
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Katie Dill: Product quality directly drives growth, not trades off against it
“I know there's this saying of like, it's growth versus quality, but like, Quality is growth. And if you think about how you can make your product easier to use and more understandable, you know, that will of course drive people to use it and use more of it and…”
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Product teams cannot increment their way to a great holistic outcome
“If you don't know what that is, like, what are the chances that you're going to increment yourself to the right Outcome in the end. And, you know, as I talked about before, like building the house, like you want to see what that picture looks like. In the, you…”
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Designers must balance functional community and cross-disciplinary team identities
“You have two t-shirts. You have the design t-shirt and you have the like marketplace t-shirt or whatever, you know, cross-disciplinary team that you work on because both are really important communities to build for slightly different reasons.”
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Stripe's redesigned checkout increased business revenue by 10.5%
“So by improving the quality of the checkout experience through details, small and large, we have seen a 10.5% increase in businesses revenue from that, you know, an older form of checkout to a newer form of checkout.”
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Design craft without functional utility cannot create a high-quality product
“Utility is an incredible, important part of that, but so is usability and so is desirability because these things together make something truly great. And so, you know, beauty is an important part of that because it does make things more useful. It does make t…”