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The 5 questions I get the most about becoming a product manager

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Q&A about becoming a product manager that will help you find great roles, build your skills, and ask the questions you need Photo by Canva Studio A few years back, I realized that the questions I was getting about my path to becoming a leader in product were ringing a similar tune. I love this question.

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Looking after your mental health as a product manager

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Product management is a mentally taxing job. Every now and then I would come across a confession in some PM communities: ‘I’m thinking to switch away from product management. The CEO of the product isn’t the same as the dictator of the product Many people are lured into product management due to its sexy title.

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Designing a rocketship in flight

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I learnt an equal amount from our remarkable engineers and product managers. A shout out is due here to product managers Emily Mabin Sutton, Rodolphe Bouygues, and Jono van Deventer, product director Moustafa Khalil, and engineering manager James Clark?—?who A shout out to all the team at the end).

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The Top 10 Must-Have Tools for Designers

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For teams of designers, product managers, and engineers who need to collaborate closely throughout a project, Figma is a game-changer. Compatible with other Affinity apps like Photo and Publisher. By connecting images or design files, designers can simulate the user experience before coding happens.

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A product design process for the real world

UX Collective

Product designers have never had so many tools and techniques at our disposal to help us do our job. Research, journey maps, Figma, code, Keynote, data analysis… the list is huge and keeps growing. Design reviews: Regular reviews with other designers, your product team (product managers, engineers, QA, etc.),

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The power of Motion Guidelines in digital products

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Creating a digital product requires teams that include product designers, engineers, motion designers, analysts, product managers, and sometimes external agencies. Digital products extend across multiple platforms. Guidelines are the language that helps multiple disciplines come together and work smarter.

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How to start and manage design systems

UX Collective

After all, it binds together designers, developers, and product managers in one place, players who sometimes speak different languages. Code, functioning, UX, UI What are the optional statuses of a component? The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish. What would be the steps in implementing a component?