Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
One of the challenges of application engineering within an established company like Dropbox is to break out of the cycle of incremental improvements and look at a problem fresh. Our colleagues who do user research help by regularly reminding us of the customer’s perspective, but so can our friends...
Hasnain says:
This has a lot of great content on engineering a large new product from scratch - starting from finding product market fit, through iterating on an implementation, to productionizing it. Lots of lessons along the way.
"Keeping that customer voice growing in each of us, through things like subscribing to the feedback mailing list or participating in user research interviews has proved crucial to our success as an engineering team. It is not enough to just have product managers, designers, and researchers thinking about the customer, engineers must as well."
Posted on 2020-07-12T18:06:40+0000