UX Design for Startups: Problem-Solving or Problem-Preventing?

A story of my startup failure offers a fresh perspective on how to approach problems as a founding team

Nicole Gallardo
Entrepreneurship Handbook
6 min readApr 11, 2023

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Designers working on various screens.
Illustration by Timo Kuilder

In 2008, I founded my first e-commerce startup.

And it failed–epically.

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Founder & Chief Design Officer at Founders Who UX | CEO at Gallardo Labs | Published in Entrepreneurship Handbook, UX of EdTech, & UX Collective