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Design Debt - The accumulated cost of design shortcuts, inconsistencies, and deferred UX improvements that degrade user experience over time.
System Prompts - Initial instructions given to an AI that define its behavior, personality, constraints, and capabilities for the entire conversation.
Customer Discovery - The process of validating business hypotheses by talking directly with potential customers.
Product Design - The process of imagining, creating, and iterating products that solve users' problems while balancing desirability, viability, and feasibility.
Worse Is Better - A software design philosophy arguing that simpler, 'worse' solutions often succeed over more complete but complex alternatives.
Lean Startup - A methodology for developing products through validated learning and iterative experimentation.
Shotgun to Sniper Strategy - Entrepreneurial approach of starting broad with many experiments, then focusing intensely on what gains traction.
Customer Pain Points - Specific problems, frustrations, or unmet needs that customers experience, serving as the raw material for product development and marketing.
Beachhead Market - A small, well-defined market segment chosen as the initial target for a new product, serving as a launchpad for broader market expansion.
Cross-Functional Teams - Teams composed of members with different functional expertise working toward shared goals.
Iteration Speed - The rate at which you can complete try-learn-adjust cycles, determining how quickly you can improve.
Pivoting - Strategic shift in business model, product, or target market based on market feedback and learning.
Problem-Solution Fit - The validation that your solution actually solves a real problem that people have and care about.
Working Backwards - A product development approach pioneered at Amazon where teams start by writing a press release and FAQ for the finished product before building anything.
Data Product - A product or feature whose primary value is derived from data, delivering actionable insights or automated decisions to its users.

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