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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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Leveraging neurodivergent traits for design strategy

UX Collective

I recognized early on that ADHD could be seen as a risk by employers or product partners that could hurt growth opportunities and increased product ownership later down the line. Yes, she fired me after 1 day of managing me. You are not a strong designer, the level of your skills are not cut out for product design.

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‘Doing strategy’ as a product designer

UX Collective

Me “doing strategy” for the first time as a designer. This was my first experience as a principal product designer. When I was first promoted beyond Senior Product Designer, I was glad to work at a higher level and help steer larger company initiatives. Only problem is I didn’t know what strategy was.

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Your design is only as good as your organisation’s ability to problem solve

UX Collective

Stifling innovation and wasting talent: the hidden consequences of organisational practices on design potential. image generated using Dall•e 2 on nightcafe.studio Design in product development is both a science and an art. But design does not exist in a vacuum. So, what does a good product team look like?

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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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Dear designer: Strategy doesn’t have to be stressful

UX Collective

Useful ways you can manage (and master) the user experience journey Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Should designers PM?

UX Collective

As a designer, I still code a little myself both at work and as a hobby. The same goes with our product management (PM) teammates. We should “get” them and the work they do just like we “get” coding and the work engineers do, as the three of our domains together comprise the engine of product development.