Starting at the end with product design strategy

Textile 2024 week 09 note

Product design strategy is a funny thing. You can start in a lot of different places. You can start at the beginning, looking at where you’re at and then where you want to go. Or you can do it the other way around, where you want to go and then work backwards. Lately I’ve been trying out the latter. We’ve been looking at our two year horizon and where we can take things with the direction we’re headed with not just Basin, but how it works with the whole Textile Network. So I started thinking about how to talk about, that is how to show it on the internet. This is a great way of framing things that we do a lot of times at Textile. How do you explain where you will be in two years time? You write it down. You make it clear enough that someone could land on a web page and then understand. And then work backwards. This allows you to work backwards to today’s reality and most importantly begin to put some shape to all the stuff in between.