When you're designing something, there's always too much to do. Features, ideas, feedback everything seems important.

I learned a few simple tools to figure out what really matters.

1. Eisenhower Matrix

This is about what is urgent and what is important. Draw a box with four squares:

• Important + Urgent → Do it now
• Important + Not Urgent → Schedule it
• Not Important + Urgent → Delegate it
• Not Important + Not Urgent → Ignore it

It helps you stop wasting time on things that don't matter.

2. RICE Scoring

RICE helps you decide which ideas to do first. RICE stands for:

• Reach → How many people it will help
• Impact → How much it will improve things
• Confidence → How sure you are it will work
• Effort → How much work it takes

Score each idea. The bigger the score, the higher the priority.

3. Kano Model

Kano is about how features make people feel.

• Must-haves → People expect it, if missing → unhappy
• Delighters → People don't expect it, if present → super happy
• Basic things → Neutral, nice to have but not exciting

It helps you focus on things that actually make users smile.

4. MoSCoW Methodology

MoSCoW helps you group features by importance:

• Must have → Can't ship without it
• Should have → Important but not critical
• Could have → Nice to have if there's time
• Won't have → Skip it for now

It keeps your roadmap clear and realistic.

These tools are super simple but really helpful. They make deciding what to do first much easier. You don't have to do everything at once.

Start small, pick what matters, and make things better step by step.