Creative Bloq

JULY 24, 2025

Its unique "Chat Canvas" is optimised for creative collaboration between man and machine, while business is taken care of by specialised AI agents that each manage a distinct creative task. Image credit: Lovart) “At Lovart, we dont have product managers. “The canvas is the desk.

Filmmaking

UX Collective

JUNE 12, 2025

My product manager has used AI to flesh out wireframes in order to get an idea across, but she’s already done the problem solving in her brain. I’ve had roles where I’ve worn project and product management hats and CX hats. It can render beautiful images but it won’t solve issues like movement, space, and functionality.

Coding

A List Apart

MAY 12, 2022

In fact, a product manager once asked me why ethics couldn’t just be a structured part of the design process —to just do it without spending the effort to define ethical objectives. Many of my colleagues expressed doubts such as “What will the client think of this?,” “Will they take me seriously?,” It’s a tempting idea, right?

Client

UX Collective

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Jack Menzel, former Product Management Director atGoogle. The Traditional WayA Maze of Clicks: Imagine youre a product manager trying to understand user behavior. Redesigned Google search with knowledge graph panel on theright The Knowledge Graph was born from observing how people actually use search.

Internet and Software Development

UX Collective

JULY 9, 2025

Earlier this month I met with a product manager who wanted to know if a designer on my team had capacity to take on a small project. How many times have we noticed a design flaw in our product, filed a Jira ticket to have an engineer fix it, and watched it fall to the bottom of the backlog. And that’s a good thing.

Coding

Design Beep

JULY 15, 2025

Great for decision-makers, product managers, or debate-style presentations. Adaptable for pitches, reports, or team updates. Pros and Cons Infographic Presentation Template Compare options decisively with balanced pros/cons slides. Balances professionalism with a touch of creativity.

Presentation

UX Collective

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Both of these are features, of coursea product manager prioritized solving a pain point , a designer conceptualized the idea, an engineer built the functionality into thetool. And both solve the need (to add images to atask).

Production

UX Collective

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Product managers scrambling to keep timelines intact. If UX truly values empathy, it shouldnt just extend to end usersit should include the entire team working to bring the product to life and the business thats investing to doso. But heres a fundamental question what about empathy for the people building theproduct?

Production

UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2025

Product managers have launch dates. Everyone already has established working patterns and people aren’t usually inclined to change. Plus, designers have their opinions. Engineers have priorities. And everyone already has a “good-enough solution”.

Arts and Crafts

UX Collective

JULY 22, 2025

We also needed to find product-market fit, and therefore, we identified research as a pivotal skill for designers to have, so that they could support product managers accordingly. Step 2: Researching the landscape I didn’t start from scratch entirely — there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.

Production

UX Collective

JULY 14, 2025

We need alignment with Product Managers and Engineers. Exercising these muscles regularly without pressure to implement every piece of feedback levels each other up over time, helps us see out of the box, and builds trust / understanding. Gain alignment with working team At the same time, we need feedback to move the work forward.

Presentation

UX Collective

JULY 20, 2025

Because as design becomes increasingly embedded in interdisciplinary teams — alongside product managers, engineers, marketers — the ability to communicate intent becomes as valuable as the artifact itself. We’re practicing how to talk to each other  — more clearly, more intentionally, and more often through structured thought.

Layout

UX Collective

JUNE 2, 2025

In these organizations, the product lifecycle isnt linear; its generative. Not product managers in backlogtriage. Theyre integrating intelligence from day one. And whats needed most is a vision that can make sense of all that complexity. Not engineers in optimization mode. Not designers stuck refining Figmafiles.

Production

UX Collective

AUGUST 7, 2025

Instead, it champions a mindset of continuous experimentation, feedback integration, and adaptive adjustment, transforming IT from a project-delivery function to a dynamic learning system. This directly addresses the “faster is slower” principle from Senge’s laws , advocating for sustainable, adaptive growth over rushed, brittle solutions.

Production

UX Collective

MAY 22, 2025

Scope Pace of change : Slow (months to years) Focus : Product requirements This layer defines core functional, content, and data requirements, accounting for the probabilistic nature of AI and defining acceptable levels of performance and variance. Bookmuse falls short. He forgot to provide even a basic date picker in the designsystem.

Production

UX Collective

JUNE 23, 2025

In the lack of dedicated teams for research and product management you are responsible for weaving the connective tissue between customers and stakeholders. Solo doesn’t have to mean alone As a solo designer, you shouldn’t think of yourself as a lone wolf. Instead, you should double-down on cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Production

UX Collective

AUGUST 7, 2025

Adopting AI in product design requires rethinking work dynamics, crafting scalable AI-driven experiences, and expanding technical fluency across roles. Before panicking about the next product role about to die, take a moment to think about how to transform this threat into an opportunity.

Production

UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2025

More and more, we are being pulled away from truly important issues to satisfy executives obsessed with superficial innovation. Generative Art. 240716a by takaw. OpenProcessing, 16 de julho de2024 Yes, were being pulled awayfrom essential topics like accessibility, which are often overshadowed by technological distractions.

Networking

A List Apart

MAY 30, 2024

Instead of investing in research, some product managers rely on designers or—worse—their own opinion to make the “right” choices for users based on their experience or accepted best practices. Use storytelling as a structure to do research It’s sad to say, but many have come to see research as being expendable.

Production

UX Collective

JUNE 17, 2025

Promptly present findings to business and product stakeholders to ensure roadmap priorities are supported by data. Work with product managers to mock up hero experiences that represent the end vision, the first step, and a few interim phases before the end can be achieved that map to delivery timelines and phases.

Production

UX Collective

JULY 31, 2025

For one task of mine, where I was designing a dashboard for internal engineers , the Product Manager and I once took quick feedback in a stand-up from the engineering director of that team , which proved helpful in rethinking the metrics we were thinking of prioritising — they simply weren’t as important as we thought they were!

Production

Creative Boom

JULY 14, 2025

Co-creation was central to the project, and Alice worked shoulder to shoulder with Joy 101's in-house content creators, product managers, and developers, even sharing Slack channels to keep ideas flowing. The app's logo, designed by Metalab, was also a product of this highly collaborative ecosystem.

Digital

UX Collective

JUNE 14, 2025

Using behavioral psychology and modern product design, this piece explains why brands like Apple use fewer, smarter choices to convert better. We are told to customize, expand, and provide more options, but that might be a silent killer for our conversion rate.

Production

UX Collective

MAY 10, 2022

Design reviews: Regular reviews with other designers, your product team (product managers, engineers, QA, etc.), Helpful when managing up and around, giving folks at all levels visibility into our progress and the opportunity to contribute. I work on many of these activities with my product managers and engineers.

Production

UX Collective

MARCH 21, 2023

And then one day the Chief Product Officer came to our team (1 product manager, ~6 engineers, 1 quality assurance person, ½ a scrum master, ½ a data analyst, ½ a community liaison, and myself), and tasked us with making significant improvements. It might honestly be a once-in-the-history-of-the-internet kind of situation.

Production

Graphic Design Junction

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Are you considering a career in product design or product management? Product Design is the process through which designers create attractive visuals for products both digital and physical, while Product Management looks at the entirety of any given product’s life cycle.

Product Management

UX Collective

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, is this enough when we design international products? The sociology of the big difference between Western minds and those of the Far East Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash I can’t believe I am writing this, but… as UX designers, we must understand the users. Perhaps not.

Fonts

UX Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An animated illustration of a huge oil tanker navigating the ocean waters while a giant octopus hitches a ride. Credit: Me. Learnings from three years of design system advocacy The Knock Nevis, built in 1979, was the largest ship ever constructed. It could carry 565,000 tons and was 458m long.

Production

Inkbot Design

JULY 31, 2022

More than 2 million product managers use Moqups, business analysts, UX professionals, executives, and cross-functional teams do foundational work on complex projects. It allows you to add content and collaborate with teammates from anywhere. And since the app runs on the cloud, your content is instantly available across all devices.

Graphic Design

Inkbot Design

MAY 21, 2024

You must work closely with UX designers , visual designers, developers, product managers, business stakeholders and most importantly – real users! What do you need actually to design an excellent eCommerce app? Collaboration and user focus Designing an eCommerce experience is not a one-person job.

Arts and Crafts

Inkbot Design

JULY 18, 2023

At its core, Shopify offers essential eCommerce functionalities, such as product management, inventory tracking, and order processing. Users can effortlessly add and categorise products, set prices, and showcase high-quality images.

Internet and Software Development

Creative Boom

JULY 24, 2024

Micky England, senior product manager at Teenage Cancer Trust, praised the collaboration, saying, "It's been an absolute pleasure to work with Anthony Burrill, Mike Dolbear, and the outstanding drummers on these incredible pieces for our online shop.

Print

Just Creative

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Brand and Product Management – Free. Brand Management: Aligning Business, Brand and Behaviour – Free. Brand and Product Management. Business Branding: The Complete Course Part 2 – Expression – $129.99. Branding & Marketing for Startups: Learn How To Stand Out – $94.99.

Brand

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I’ve often been in a situation where engineering or a product manager assumed an answer to a problem, but as we asked more probing questions, we realized that there may be more solutions to the primary problem than the one suggested. An illustration of two people, a UX designer and product manager, in karate gis face off inside a dojo.

Product Management

UX Collective

MARCH 28, 2023

Product Visioning Process This is the process I have used to guide teams to create product visions that led to transformative change in the business and use experience: Product Visioning Process Plan Crafting a vision is a project in and of itself and therefore requires planning and dedicated bandwidth.

Production

UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

While 29 of the total 93 guidelines focus on UX, the most contentious and most important tackle Business Strategy And Product Management. The guidelines, which the group say have been inspired by W3C’s work on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines covers ‘ User-Experience Design’ in some detail.

Digital

UX Collective

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The final whistle What's the future for the Product Designer role? Expect more Product Designers flexing into Product Manager and Product Owner roles, utilising their design based tactics. Total Design encapsulates the joy of creating, the art of crafting an experience that should go beyond mere functionality.

Production