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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. Web Form Design. Meeting Design. The Elements of Typographic Style. Mental Models.

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The many deaths of UX design

UX Collective

Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. The role of a designer is not to only to plan and implement the testing, but to interpret the results, which may pose quite a challenge.

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Why I decided to become an individual contributor after 4 years of people management

UX Collective

Lessons learned as I made the decision to become a product designer again. I’d been working as a user experience designer by day while teaching UX a few times per week in the evenings at BrainStation for a couple of semesters and had discovered a passion for helping others grow and develop their skills.

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Good UX is not enough without a proper communication plan

UX Collective

This mantra wraps up everything about how UX should solve experience challenges; the whole phrase from Dieter Rams goes, “Less, but better — because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. But so are designs that harm. / Back to purity, back to simplicity.”

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Stress-free OKR creation: how to connect strategic drivers with objectives

UX Collective

Definitely not. When we run into this situation it is because we are filling the gap created by lack of a previous alignment of strategy and opportunities. This is a signal in companies that don’t have a strategy or fail to connect it to OKRs and team execution. Part of a KPI tree for e-commerce products.

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Inputs/Outputs: design planning in high uncertainty projects

UX Collective

This production rhythm bases its core on launching and testing to iterate and get better results soon (we are already familiar with this). I re-interpreted the well-known Eisenhower matrix in the graphic above to make it functional for design projects. Design status? Take what you can see. How to mitigate this?

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Understanding privacy-enhancing design

UX Collective

Privacy-Enhancing Design aims at tackling unfair and deceptive design practices in the context of data protection (such as deceptive patterns ) by empowering UX designers and educating organizations about the positive and transformative impact UX design can have on privacy protection. Design Accountability.