The Product Experience

How and when to sunset features - Roni Ben Aharon (CPO, Craft.io, Booking.com, Wix)

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Apr 23, 2025
Roni Ben Aharon, CPO and co-founder of Craft.io, shares his expertise in product management, having worked with industry giants like Booking.com and Wix. He discusses the delicate art of sunsetting features, using the retirement of Craft.io’s visual spec tool as a case study. Roni emphasizes the hidden costs of underused features and the importance of user empathy. He warns against hasty decisions and highlights collaboration between teams as crucial for successful transitions. Listeners gain insight into the challenges of managing legacy features and ensuring effective communication during change.
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INSIGHT

Hidden Costs of Underused Features

  • Features that are underused introduce cognitive load and UX complexity which harm onboarding and product clarity.
  • Maintaining many features consumes development effort and complicates building new impactful features.
ANECDOTE

Sunsetting Visual Spec Feature

  • Craft.io had a visual spec feature allowing uploading wireframes with comments that was underused.
  • They chose to sunset it and integrate with Figma to avoid competing and UX complexity.
ADVICE

Empathy in Sunsetting

  • Communicate feature sunsetting with users empathetically and collaborate with customer success to get user consent.
  • Plan data migration carefully to preserve user trust and minimize disruption.
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