Steve Vassallo, general partner at Foundation Capital, discusses how he applied the basic principles of design thinking years ago in order to incorporate the many features of an office phone in a simpler way. Then a designer at the renowned firm IDEO, Vassallo says the process of need-finding and prototyping led to a user-interface hierarchy that lives on in today’s smartphones.
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