design partner

A design partner is an early customer who tests a product under development and helps shape its direction.

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A design partner is an early customer who uses a product under development and provides input on its features and direction. In AI and other software development, the role involves collaboration from the design stage, rather than only testing a largely finished product as a beta tester does.

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It recruited ten restaurant customers as design partners and kept a direct feedback loop with them in a WhatsApp group.

A design partner, not a final authority


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