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Gaming

What does a Product Designer actually do?

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.

5mo ago
Villanity
Villanity

Well there is a different and better definition but let me put it in simpler terms -

Basically a Product Designer is responsible for a product from its inception to market-ready stage. Let’s just say we want to produce Sunglasses, we will employ a Product Designer who will do all the research and work with the Design Team (Notice here) to make sure the product is coming according to their vision. Once the product is ready with all the testing and everything then the Product Designer must make strategies to get it properly marketed and make it ready for the prime time.

Basically you own a product and that product is like your child and anything happens, you have to take care of it.

This goes for Physical things like Sunglasses as I mentioned and also Digital Products like a new Website to manage your Taxes or sell these Sunglasses.

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Gaming
Gaming

Very well explained 🙌

Unileetz
Unileetz
Student5mo

What you said sounds similar to the job of a product manager than a designer

pixel
pixel

Fight for their design decisions and get rejected(a lot)

Sageof6paths
Sageof6paths

There there

FreeDietCoke
FreeDietCoke

A product designer depending on the company has to build designs that account for behavioural science. Exploit human emotions to drive metrics, this gives a rush of dopamine straight to their hippocampus every time they use the app.

Gooner7
Gooner7

I've only seen one designer in my life who actually does good work. The rest are Figma junkies hooked on cocaine, making good designs for their next job and bolster their portfolio lol.

RectangleBro
RectangleBro

I don’t think you should over index on the pay factor. Most product designers earn much less than other roles. Joining product design with pay as primary motivator is a big mistake because very few companies pay significantly large amounts of money.

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