The next 7 years?
Design fiction exercise
- I finish my current projects.
- We work together on a profitable product.
- I take advantage of the fact that we don’t know each other to take a look at your business from a fresh perspective.
- I get to know your company and build trust.
- Ultimately, I take off your shoulders entire business problems and opportunities.
- I take responsibility for my work.
- You can, but don’t have to, deal with the organization of my time and work.
- Sometimes I take urgent things off your shoulders, and sometimes I do deep work.
- You hear “no” and “I don’t know” from me.
- If I don’t know something, I learn it.
- We verify ideas and decisions using qualitative and quantitative data.
- When needed, we use our intuition.
- I work closely with whoever I need to work closely with—clients, partners, marketing, sales, business, software developers, etc.
- You can entrust me with an interface, product, service, and process.
- You have at your disposal an additional person who draws attention to the company’s outside communication tools (interface language, text on websites, press releases).
- You have the comfort of talking about business, not pixels.
- We research.
- We design.
- We prototype.
- We build.
- We test.
- We measure.
- We analyze.
- We learn.
- We iterate.
- We laugh.
- I ask you “why?” annoyingly often.
- I answer your every “why?”
- I make bugs.
- I fix bugs.
- I document everything that needs to be documented.
- You can count on my proactivity and commitment.
- We work 40 hours a week.
- We navigate the unknown together.
- We react nimbly to changes.
- We achieve ambitious business goals.
- If you’re not the owner of the company, our collaborative work contributes to at least one of your next promotions.
- In the worst‑case scenario, in less than 7 years you’ll have a few business problems off your shoulders.
- In the best‑case scenario, we’re still working together in 7 years.