---
title: Solving Real Problems With Design
teaser: |
  Design-centered methods will bring clarity to any product problem or business
  idea.
tags: design
author: Thom Obarski
published_on: 2019-11-27
---

Do customers really know best? 	
What features should we build? 	
Why don’t we have more users? 	
Why aren’t we making more money?

> “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what
> should not be done at all.”    
> ~ Peter Drucker, consultant

Solving real problems means going deeper than visual or tactile design
experiences. From [NYCxDesign](https://www.nycxdesign.com/) Week, [Keiran
King](https://twitter.com/keiranwking) explains design-centered methods to bring
clarity to any problem product or business idea.

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