List the Design Skills within the STartup

2. List Design Skills
Vishnu Gopal

3. List your teams’
Design Skills

4. Why?

5. Because: good design is
now crucial to
a product’s success.

6. Why?

7. All users expect a
measure of basic
usability.

8. + they are impressed
with standout design.

9. Earlier: design used to
be a differentiator.

10. Now: good, even great
design is a pre-requisite.

11. Observation from previous
batches is that teams that can’t
grok good UX and visual design

12. Can’t build impressive
prototypes, and so…

13. … can’t attract enough
user/investor/mentor
attention…

14. … leading to poor
performance in the batch.

15. Focus on great design
from day 1.

16. So first, understand
where your team stands
in terms of design.

17. Format to list:

18. Submit a spreadsheet:

19. Design Domain
Founder 1
Name
Founder 2
Name
Founder N
Name
Usability Good Beginner No Knowledge
User
Experience
Great Good Beginner
Visual Design
(Illustrations)
Awesome. See:
[URL]
Good Beginner
Visual Design
(Motion
Graphics)
Good Good Great
Technology &
Tools
Good Good Beginner

20. Also write down your insight
in your timeline entry or as
part of your submission.

21. Insight = new learning, action items
or other todo tasks.
All because you
performed this task.

22. Insight pointers: if you submit
a generally bad design matrix,
how would you improve?

23. Insight pointers: if there is a
specific area you do not have
expertise in, how would you
improve?

24. Don’t forget to check
the Rubric for pointers.