Your article's as useful as a chocolate teapot. Product design isn't a fancy tea party, it's a war zone. What's your battle plan?

Calm down there Musashi. That landing page ain't no battle, more like a Holi Brawl on a Monday afternoon, get all the colors, position well, spray and pray

Product Manager

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How to think about, develop, and improve your homepage

The Ultimate Guide to Homepages

Found this really interesting article on designing home page for product

Found this really interesting article on designing home page for product- Grapevine

Hey guys, me and my friend have developed a site where you can browse through website inspirations and galvanise into your designs. Checkout variants.one 

Currently it’s in beta, and we have lot of new features in the future roadmap. Please 🙏 give your feedback in the comments.

Handpicked curation of the best designs by the designers

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Trying to see companies that people here have had the dream to join, but didn’t ultimately work out. Have you now grown over it?

Which company were you obsessed with joining, but never could?

For me it was McKinsey 
 It was the best job out of college, status wise. 
  
 Did well in college and made it to the final shortlist. Was obsessed with it, read books and all about The Firm. 
  
 Then the interviews happened, couldn’t convert. Was a downer.  
  
 But 5 years later, doesn’t matter much. I feel life taught me better things. And my fascination of consulting jobs has changed drastically since :p

Corporate Strategist

Recently reading up on a few things. Thinking of taking an year off to start something new. Let's see.

Drop your favourite blogs/newsletters/editorials. I want to see what I can learn.

Advice from HubSpot, Ahrefs, Intercom, Slidebean, and Webflow

Content-driven growth

[Thread] What are some of your favourite blogs in Product Management?

Apps name is pillow. I use it for my sleep tracking. The way they announce feature is really interesting, it’s in form of stories.

Found this really interesting way to announce product feature

I'm a designer working at a early stage product startup. Our product team is of 5 Devs/ Engineers & 3 Designers (including me). We have created roadmaps, followed sprints, tracked but they were never efficient as there were lot of ad hock high priority tasks we needed to take. 

I couldn't find any helpful resources specific to the situation. Could you please share any articles / resources / give me a right direction on this.

How to streamline things for a product team

Business Analyst

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Lead social, brand, perf, SEO, partnerships, community, growth, pretty much everything across zero to fairly high budgets. Happy to help.

Marketing lead, 10.5 years, here to help!

Brand Marketing Manager

Field is saturated and you will seriously struggle to find work. Not gate keeping, just laying out the reality. If you're up for the challenge then good, if not then you should look at some other fields.

Product design is kind of weird now and is tougher than you think. It is no more a creative field where you can come up with unique ideas or have fun creating stuff. It is intoxicating, tedious and requires constant fighting with the stakeholders, listening to your micro managers and implementing stuff they "ordered" you to do disguised as feedback. Did I say, it is mostly copy work nowadays and portraying it as a whole new feature/design that is unique to your org/team?

It’s 1% creativity, 99% stroking the ego of your managers and bosses just so you don't get laid off.

(Not at capgemini, burner account)

To all the new Product Designers/UX Designers thinking this field is easy to get into. This is the reality of our field

UX/UI Designer

Hi there! Hope you're doing Awesome. I am looking out for product design opportunities. My journey so far
- Started Designing Since 2021
- Interned at a Startup as a UI/UX Designer (Desined Website, Quiz Portal and a Dashboard for Teachers)
- Joined another startup as first hire designer (Took Idea from Sketch to MVP)
- Currently learning motion design

Thank for reading, if you've an opportunity please let me know.

Looking out for Product Design Opportunities

Product Designer

been working at a product based startup as the only ui/ ux designer for over 6 months now. work is usually solving for and designing new features, or thinking redesign from user grievances. the products were already designed for them by an agency before my joining and feel poorly designed to me, but does the job for the users. decisions regarding usage and the how-tos of implementation are taken by the product leads.

in such a scenario, i don't see myself taking product decisions, but i try to suggest my ideas (mostly accepted) when we frame the requirements and solutions. how do i grow from just largely only designing what my leads tell me, to actually making an impact with the products we have?

background- i'm an electronics engineer, landed a design internship at a startup a little before graduation and they offered a full time role after. accepted it over my placement and it's been over 6 months in this role.

thanks & cheers :)

Growth as a designer?

Visual Designer

This website is an absolute eye opener for designers and people who are going to build something in the future or current designers. I am not a designer and still loved the LAWS of UX.

https://lawsofux.com/

Gold mine for UX

Looking for actual review/feedback. Also what is the program fee?

Review of GrowthX program

Do u need to be natural  gifted to be a product designer?

Hello designers,

let’s create a thread of our Favourite UI design.

Mine is Netflix.

let’s go 🚀

Your favourite design

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Hi Viners, would like to know how a non coder can build an MVP and check for market validation. !!

Suggest some tools to build an MVP and test an idea plz

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This extension has 4 different types of chargers for Apple products (USB-C, Lighting, Watch puck, Magsafe)

Peak product design 🤡

Founder

I recently had the chance to interact with a couple of product designers from the Bangalore startup scenes. The huddle also included a few who are quite active on the LinkedIn community - where they constantly talkabout craft, user empathy, design principles and what not!

But when you really listen to what they are saying - they are just all fluff and no meat. They just want to beautify things for the sake of it. There’s no depth in understanding the users.

When asked “What measures do you take to empathise with the users?”, this senior and ‘awarded’ designer casually answered - “ We just go with the VIBE!”

I MEAN, REALLY? 

Looks like the marketing effort that goes into building their social profile is all these designers care about.

The future of UXD scares me.
Sorry for the betrayal, users. 💀

Alexa, cancel these pseudo Product Designers

I am gonna graduate in June 2024 and want to get into product management, I have two internships in same domain but there is a gap after Jan 2023  because I started preparing for some exams in whole 2023 as market was very bad then , although it's bad now as well but not much as compared to last year, how should I approach towards it when getting back and what soft skills i can develop in these 3 to 4 months so as to land at good product management internship with a potential for full time conversion

How to get into product

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In early startups specially in b2b, product designers are not designers they're rather design support. Always restricted to reach till minimum viable ux.

Though whatever gets shipped at the end is better from past but power of shaping product is largely placed at PM's table and engeneering table (feasibility). 
Now you can avoid complaing and show high agency, partner with PM in defining Product but the default power house is still PM, not the designer. Also you don't have time for this because designs need to shipped to add to next sprint.

At the end you just take a deep breath and sigh because you made something better, bit better if not far from what existed before.

I guess high impact/ product definition work gets done by designer in big orgs only not only early age startups.

Product designer rant

Do share if you've come across something as interesting as this

The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model

How Duolingo reignited user growth

This is like one of the best article how i read on Gamification, using data backed decision, and measuring churn the right way

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Enough to build UI/UX for your product?

Any recommendations or readings for this?

Found this really interesting article on designing home page for product

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