SMRTR ProgrammingAug 12, 2025Product Party

Why design debt destroys reputations (and how to fix It).

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Design debt accumulates through compromises, leading to user dissatisfaction and business impacts, but can be mitigated by auditing flows, tracking metrics, framing improvements as value-adding, and combining cleanup with feature work.

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