# Design Tradeoffs Are The Work (Glaringly Obvious)

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**Created:** [July 12, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/design-tradeoffs-are-the-work-glaringly-obvious/79 "2025-07-12T17:02:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/bryan/32/448_2.png) [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/design-tradeoffs-are-the-work-glaringly-obvious/79/4 "2026-01-03T21:24:25Z")

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We published our featured article on tradeoffs in design today.

> **[\#productdesign #productmanagement | Helio](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helio_productdesign-productmanagement-activity-7413251595582377985-Hhtz)**
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> Smart tradeoffs lead to better design.
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> In this throwback featured post, we like Karl Wiegers' argument that good product design is about balancing tradeoffs. You can’t make everything perfect, as improving one part often hurts another. He suggests...

A lot of what gets written about product these days is what I think of as offense. What to build. How to push forward. How to win.

This article and conversation is interesting to me because it’s more about defense. What not to do…where teams get trapped and where decisions get trapped.

Sometimes avoiding the wrong move does more for a product than chasing the next big idea.

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