Among early stage designers: 
 Imaginary personas 
 Case study just for the sake 
 Not solving what they mentioned in problem statement  
 Not being honest 
  
 Among mid-senior PD: 
 Not having relevant data  
 Not showing iterations and solutions explored 
 Not showing impact and success metrics 
  
 Are some of high level ones I think of rn

Intern

What are the common mistakes or pitfalls in product designer resumes that you frequently come across?

UX/UI designer

What are the common mistakes or pitfalls in product designer resumes that you frequently come across?- Grapevine

Sad to see the degree awareness & lack of common sense in young budding designers these days. 

Me as a Product Designer get asked- 
what are you doing in an IT MNC?Did you shift to IT? How much designers can make at max, it must be bad, right? I regret being a designer, aren’t you? #speechless

Design Awareness

Product Designer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Worked on UX DESIGN, mobile apps, FE , micro service, devops, AR/VR, AI & ML.  Holds 25+ patents. 

AMA!

AMA - 19 years experienced VP

Software Engineer

Please mention your mistakes you've done in your preparation period for companies as a fresher. 
As I am a fresher, so that I can avoid those problems at first.

Mistakes in Preparations

Looking at the sad state of UX market in India makes me think about the scene few years back. In 2018-19 many folks who found coding or other roles a little difficult switched to UX. 

UX design was glorified even more by few design influenzaaas as if its the only coolest job left in IT.

Most of the experienced designers we see today are earning good but shit in their pants when asked to do good visuals. They are good at talking, use lot of UX jargons and give gyaan on Linkedin comments and constantly ridicule designers who are good at visuals to sound intellectual.

We don’t see talented illustrators, motion designers, vfx folks get the appreciation they deserve. Also these skills are difficult and takes hell lot of practice to master and has a high entry barrier as well.

Market ruined because of low entry barrier in UX Design? 🤔

Business analyst

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

Can anyone help me with what most common asked questions are as a product designer of experience 2 years

Product designer interview questions

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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

What are the different methods you use to get interviews.
How do you approach companies and get noticed

Job hunt as a product designer

I didn't see any hiring thread specifically for product designers. Most are catered towards engineering and PM roles.

If your company has any openings or if you come across any good openings please mention here. Will be valuable for everyone

I'm also looking out. I have 4.5 YOE currently working at a product company (not Capgemini)

Cheers!

Hiring thread only for product design

Mostly so called "Design Leaders" "mentors" are always spewing gyaan in my office, LinkedIn, social media but actually fail to implement those stuff. Every other week we have this call where designers are supposed to talk about a topic and every designer comes with such complex presentations, use big words as if they are saving the world or something. They unnecessarily complicate such simple topics and then go on to call themselves designers 🤡

Why are product designers so pretentious?

Hey everyone, I wanted to know exactly what a product designer actually does. What is there day to day activities, what are the qualification needed to be a product designer. I saw most of the product designers are getting really good pay in startup and I am curious to know what's their daily job looks like.

What does a Product Designer actually do?

Team lead

Got my first product design internship, have never been more disappointed

All you ux/product designers, share your journey as a product designer in indian companies. When did you make your first big buck and what was that journey like

Ux designers

I mean seriously every person who is ask this question says, I am really passionate about design, and solving problems, but are you really passionate? Have you ever sat down asked your self this question?
So recently I was giving an interview and the person asked what made me get into UX Design and I answered the with the same line, and the expression that person gave me really made me question, whether am I really passionate about UX Design. Please think before when you say this in an interview.

Why did you get into Product Design?

Senior UI/UX Designer

Welcome to Company Reviews's Private Community

What’s a common misconception about your job or industry that you would like to clarify?

Hi there fellow designers, ask me anything regarding product design would love to help ❇️

Ask me anything about product design

It takes time to understand and master any domain. You have to do something substantial. Where has the humility gone? Does calling yourself Leader increases chances of getting jobs? It’s mind boggling
And shallow.

Why are 2-3 YOE people calling themselves leader(product leader , engineering leader)?

Yo.

Is anyone's company looking for Product Designers? (With decent pay?) I'm looking for a change.

There are so many fake openings on LinkedIn. Naukri got NO Naukri. Other platforms are dead.

I got almost 2 years of experience. I did internships at great companies. Got a formal degree. Have been a pseudo PM as well. I can think of UX before the UI. 

Not really the average figma to framer AeStHeTiC-Minimalist designer.

Do DM me if you got openings and can get me hired

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