Oliver Odgaard

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helping dating app take back its reign

impact

+110% YoY ARR growth rate

timeline

Dec 2021 - Dec 2022

my role

Lead Product Designer

business goal

Growth & expansion

the problem

functional but boring

At the design review to shape the solution, it became clear that the planned scope was too ambitious for the first iteration.

Together with the product managers and mobile engineers, we decided to ship the ratings feature only on the content detail page.

Sometimes, it’s okay to ship smaller chunks than originally envisioned to learn from them and iterate based on gathered data.

the solution

functional but boring

At the design review to shape the solution, it became clear that the planned scope was too ambitious for the first iteration.

Together with the product managers and mobile engineers, we decided to ship the ratings feature only on the content detail page.

Sometimes, it’s okay to ship smaller chunks than originally envisioned to learn from them and iterate based on gathered data.

the impact

functional but boring

At the design review to shape the solution, it became clear that the planned scope was too ambitious for the first iteration.

Together with the product managers and mobile engineers, we decided to ship the ratings feature only on the content detail page.

Sometimes, it’s okay to ship smaller chunks than originally envisioned to learn from them and iterate based on gathered data.

lessons learned

functional but boring

At the design review to shape the solution, it became clear that the planned scope was too ambitious for the first iteration.

Together with the product managers and mobile engineers, we decided to ship the ratings feature only on the content detail page.

Sometimes, it’s okay to ship smaller chunks than originally envisioned to learn from them and iterate based on gathered data.

© 2025 Oliver Odgaard

hi@odgaard.work

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