41 Minutes
What is a Product Designer?
The Evolution of a Mobile Product Designer
- Jobs pre-iPhone era
- The product designer craze
- Dribbble web to ui evolution
A Product Designer Today
- It is a war finding good product designers
- "Acqu-hire" a product designer
- Finding your way into product design in the small start-up world
- Mobile Product Designers translate business goals into interactive designs
- A little about working in an agile environment. "Show early and often".
- The Might "M.V.P.", iteration on actual user feedback
- Agile products evolve with the times
- UX design is interaction design, User Experience is the end product
Careers in Product Design
- Type of jobs: What kind of design do you want to do? Native or responsive, in-house or client services?
- What Funsize looks for in a Product Designer
- Take risks and learn how fail the right way.
Our Show Notes
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0:01
Introductions
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0:42
What's a product designer? Where did this role come from?
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4:10
Pre-iPhone era jobs
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5:01
The skills of a product designer
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6:02
What happened when the iPhone came out?
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7:07
The app store realization, the spawn of more jobs, the war for talent, and mass acquisitions
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11:45
Wikipedia's definition of a "product designer"
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12:08
Being able to wear multiple hats and solve various problems
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15:29
Figuring out what your specialty is and a little bit about service design
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19:29
Going from web design to product design; translating business goals into delightful products
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23:50
Working in an agile environment; "show early and show often"
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33:35
UX is not a role, it's a byproduct of what you create
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38:34
What does Funsize look for in a product designer?
