Yu: Rapidly building extreme product versions reveals the right solution
Nan Yu · Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product) · Jan 30, 2025 · at 47:40
Nan Yu is the Head of Product at Linear. He is explaining Linear's methodology of prototyping extreme product ideas to explore design boundaries.
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“You actually build it, right? You can think of a very extreme version of a product. It's like, Hey, like let's actually for the first version, you know, we talked about like the first version, you know, it's not really the right answer. Sometimes, you know, it's so hard because you know, like, this is the most extreme version of the answer. So let's build that as fast as we can and see how it feels. And then we're going to learn so much about like what the right actual answer is because we will have seen this area of the product space and really felt it.”
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