Tom is a visual storytelling tool for work. Uses live data, a system of drag and drop tiles, and now AI to help you weave a compelling narrative together. I feel we could have only built a product like this by leaning really heavily on the systems thinking and interaction design skills of our product design team. How does design really play into the core of a company's product offering? If a product has a touch point with an end user then there's a way to be intentional about how that experience ends up working.
Tome CPO and co-founder Henri Liriani and Katy Amaya of the Greylock talent team discuss the rising importance of founding designers at startups and share best practices for building strong design teams. While past generations of startups could get away with focusing purely on the technical aspects of their product in the initial stages and bring design teams later, today's startups are living in the age following an explosion of consumer apps (and the subsequent push for consumerization of enterprise software) that has resulted in a heavy focus on the end user experience. Good design is now a critical part of a company's success.
You can read a transcript of this interview here: https://greylock.com/greymatter/designed-with-purpose/
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