How to avoid designing for current users at the expense of future ones

Three tips for balancing current and future user needs

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readJan 30, 2024

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“We haven’t had much time to think about UX, but it works for our current customers.” The Project Manager said, signaling a tricky design scenario.

We were conducting a project overview, and I was left with far too many…

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