Help users develop product taste and intuition. Use when someone wants to improve their product judgment, struggles to evaluate design quality, needs to make decisions without complete data, or wants to build better product instincts.
Help the user develop product taste and intuition using frameworks from 10 product leaders.
When the user asks for help with product taste:
Dylan Field: "I think intuition is like a hypothesis generator and you're constantly generating these hypotheses and others are generating hypotheses as well." Intuition isn't about being right - it's about generating good hypotheses quickly that you can then validate.
Alex Komoroske: "In this cacophony, how do you stand out? You stand out by having good taste. I think taste is the most important thing." As AI makes production easier, taste becomes the critical differentiator that separates great products from "slop."
Guillermo Rauch: "Taste, sometimes I think we think of as this inaccessible thing that, 'Oh, that person was born with taste.' I see it as a skill that it can develop." Taste is built through "exposure hours" and deliberately analyzing the best products in the world, not innate talent.
Julie Zhuo: "The number one advice... is it's just really about observation and it's about curiosity and can start by first observing yourself." Build product sense by noticing your own reactions to products, then validating those observations qualitatively and quantitatively.
Kayvon Beykpour: "The best cheat codes for getting better at building products is just being a voracious user of products... There's just no replacement for that." Building great consumer products relies on "muscle memory" developed by using many products deeply.
Great taste isn't just about what to add - it's about knowing what to cut. The ability to simplify and focus is a core expression of product taste.
For all 11 insights from 10 guests, see references/guest-insights.md