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20 Must-Read Books for Product Designers at Any Stage

Creative Market

Product design is a complex discipline, requiring careful study and understanding of your user. We asked Creative Market’s own product minds to open up their libraries and share some of the books that have shaped their careers. You can learn the psychology behind what users like and improve your design strategies.

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Good UX is not enough without a proper communication plan

UX Collective

Not everything needs a communication plan; part of creating a design strategy is to think about how and when to communicate things to make them relevant to users. So, one of the most critical skills for designers is communicating design intent; as Kazden Cattapan recalls in the article, “Design communication is a critical skill.”

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Inputs/Outputs: design planning in high uncertainty projects

UX Collective

A clear symptom of this issue is evident when no one in the room can state a solid release definition; then, once the product is live, it wouldn’t fulfill either business or user needs, and that’s a potential money loss and waste of time. Design status? How to mitigate this? What to say anyways? As a leader, not panicking is key!

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The making of a strategic designer

UX Collective

We appreciate that the term popularized by design firms like IDEO has brought our work to the masses in an easy to understand and appealing way, but on the other hand, it is frustrating that the term has over-simplified the work that we do into one-day corporate training and step-by-step instructions, but this will be a whole other article.

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The 3 ingredients you need to set up and run a remote-first UX team

UX Collective

Do you expect the team to help product teams with their design strategy? Or do you expect the team to focus on more concrete design deliverables such as wireframes and flows? based on the book Design Management by Kathryn Best ) When would the design team be a success? There can be many definitions of success.

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Are OKRs improving or inhibiting decision-making?

UX Collective

there’s no definition of ‘on track’ or ‘off track’ when there’s no known end), so we may need different ‘effectual’ techniques in this environment — techniques that don’t define success as an end, but measure the cohesion of means that have the potential to produce desired results. This post was originally published on ?

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Where does the impetus for change come from?

UX Collective

Not every company is at a “burning platform” moment but history is becoming more and more littered with companies who failed because they couldn’t transform their business to address the problems they faced, whether from disruptive market forces, technology, or for a myriad of other reasons. which has a very different definition.