Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong. Mike Krieger More Quotes by Mike Krieger More Quotes From Mike Krieger Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it. Mike Krieger without something someone building When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet. Mike Krieger your student you way Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure. Mike Krieger looking vision learning people By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored. Mike Krieger month over instagram people Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to. Mike Krieger your crazy enough believe