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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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Questions I wish people asked me about being a Product Manager

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The less sexy, yet frequently more rewarding parts of the role and career Photo by Alex Green: [link] What are the most overrated skills for product managers? Anything project-management related. Seriously though, I wish we spoke about this more openly in the product world. Why Service Design ? You have to tell a story.

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Good product designers / bad product designers

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They respect and understand the fundamental elements of visual design such as typography, spacing, alignment, colors, and balance. This story contributed to World-Class Designer School : a college-level, tuition-free design school focused on preparing young and talented African designers for the local and international digital product market.

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How to start and manage design systems

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After all, it binds together designers, developers, and product managers in one place, players who sometimes speak different languages. I add (right below the component name) a grayed color label with the ticket’s name in Jira. Once I approve it (move it to ‘Approved’) I change the label’s color to green.

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A product design process for the real world

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UI design & prototyping: Helpful when the team is confident in a design’s direction and begin to focus on the finer details of a design like typography, color, spacing, UX copy, and interactions. Design reviews: Regular reviews with other designers, your product team (product managers, engineers, QA, etc.),

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Don’t ever skip the post-mortem

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Introducing brand marks to clients in full-color digital form Let’s get a thumbs-up on the mark before we discuss color, m’kay? We got feedback about spacing, font, color—everything…except the mark itself. Originally published at [link]. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish.

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Emotional design for financial apps: how we make people smile

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Monotonous cold colors? We have spending years to understand what will persuade people to buy the product, the same way as designers and product managers want to know what will drive conversion. Also, don’t be afraid of trying some bright colors, like yellow or light blue if your target user group is quite young.