9 pro tips for your product launch

05. Sketch the right way

Now that we've identified a problem, we want to explore as many solutions as possible. We start on paper, since it's a medium anyone can use. Everyone, including the non-designers, quietly sketches possible solutions. There is no group brainstorming. Loud voices do not prevail, and we avoid compromised groupthink solutions.

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