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by carussell 3199 days ago
I followed the issue on iterating for the redesign. I wouldn't say they followed any experimental methods very closely for this release. It very much came off as something where they picked a release date ahead of time and decided that's when they'd ship. New iterations didn't follow a continuous plan-do-check loop; everything was handled more like do something, get feedback, figure out something that you feel addresses that feedback, and then consider it done.

I don't know whether this comes off like I'm complaining. That's not what it's supposed to be. (I actually liked the [original] redesign announced over the summer.) I'm just here to explain what I saw.

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"New iterations didn't follow a continuous plan-do-check loop; everything was handled more like do something, get feedback, figure out something that you feel addresses that feedback, and then consider it done."

We are never done. We will always be iterating and improving. Much of the feedback we received confirmed assumptions we already had but wanted to test, such as collapsing the navigation, improving breadcrumbs, etc. Other feedback was new and we were challenged to solve those. Everything that was added to this release will undergo a round of user testing and be subject to iteration.

It does not sound like a complaint at all @carussell, thanks for the feedback.