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“There is this 52 to 1 ratio. So for 52 weeks, we are aligning and then we are coding for one week now… What matters now is how we collaborate, how we communicate, how we create that consensus.” — Deniz Kartepe, UX Research Geeks

The researcher was passing on a line that Miro's head of engineering workflows heard from technical architects and turned into a team slogan. The point is that with AI writing code fast, alignment becomes the dominant cost of building software.

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UX Research Geeks Around 31:25 into the episode

Deniz Kartepe

…now, any work you do is perfectly conceptualized with the help of an AI that can give you in-moment feedback about what you are doing and always be available very contextually to provide you the information that you need to improve. So also that adaptation onboarding process is super fast as well.

Petra Rajkov

Amazing. Thank you for that. And if we circle back just really quick to our initial talk about the product development lifecycle changing and how the engineer's role is changing, are there any other insights that you have learned that we haven't touched on?

Deniz Kartepe

My engineer, head of engineering workflows, an amazing guy, he also used that in a talk, which was a very strong statement coming from a couple of users that then we evolved into a slogan, which was these are technical architects, the people who are responsible for building the technical architecture of companies. They were saying like, there is this 52 to 1 ratio. So for 52 weeks, we are aligning and then we are coding for one week now. All that alignment, all those weeks of understanding each other, understanding the limitations, possibilities, and creating that consensus for just one week of coding. So what a shift in the entire world where this has turned upside down on its head, where what matters now is how we collaborate, how we communicate, how we create that consensus. How do we make sure that we understand each other…

Petra Rajkov

so researchers are here to stay but our role is evolving and yeah one in the product is becoming a builder and there are these more skills that we can learn not need but we can learn right now the world is our oyster and we can explore other specialties so if just to wrap it up if there was one…

Deniz Kartepe

and box and build and break things i'm not talking about build a product build up a workflow for yourself uh with the help of ai what it can look like how it can be improved and then break it and then build it again and get comfortable with breaking making mistakes it not working because then the…

Petra Rajkov

enjoy the process yeah yeah it should be fun yeah so now it's the time to experiment thank you dennis for sharing that for coming to the show and good luck in the future we cannot wait to see what's next

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“If everyone is able to build anything, they are probably going to be building the wrong thing, or just build it bad. So knowing what to build, and how to go through that definition phase, is becoming the bottleneck.” — Deniz Kartepe, UX Research Geeks

The Miro UX researcher was asked where the bottleneck in product development has moved now that AI makes building fast. He said he and a colleague built a standalone research tool in two weeks, which would have been unthinkable a year earlier. His point is that the constraint has moved upstream, to discovery and alignment.

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UX Research Geeks Around 13:28 into the episode

Deniz Kartepe

…i'm doing right now which is yeah where the world is going and in that place what does product development lifecycle looks like and then what are the problems and bottlenecks and pain points there so that for example miro can build the next things that can support and ease people's processes there

Petra Rajkov

so what bottlenecks do you see right now you mentioned that the research is faster the communication is easier because everyone has different roles and you can talk and discuss together yeah where did the bottleneck move

Deniz Kartepe

upstream the absolutely upstream so if we are thinking about it as a river that is running downstream building something was the bottleneck and now floodgates are open we have built a standalone research tool in two weeks with another ux researcher in the team like michael and it is internally already being used and it is great it is unthinkable that we could have done that a year ago so if that building phase downstream building phase is solved now automatically we come upstream where if everyone is able to build anything they are probably going to be building the wrong thing or just build it bad so knowing what to build and how to go through that definition phase is becoming the bottleneck of course when we call it discovery define deliver like big three steps of product development lifecycle it is too abstract to define the bottlenecks it is the little steps within each if you were to think of them like three not diamonds but three steps they are actually made up of multiple substeps but most of…

Petra Rajkov

yeah and there are a few dangers and i love that you mentioned already one that a lot of products are now built faster but maybe they're building it wrong they are building the wrong features because it's based on assumptions a lot of help with ai which is biased it can hallucinate and so on so do…

Deniz Kartepe

yeah yes if you are planning uh a trip uh to uh i don't know patagonia you will be preparing for mixture in advance right to make sure that you're ready for it if you are you in austria right now

Petra Rajkov

i'm in bratislava in slovakia

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