How to build strong product sense
Value of visual design to your career, Addicted to ideas, how to build product sense in edition 36th
Edition 36th: 3 best links on solopreneurship, product, design and "a new launch" this week ✨
This week, I’m covering:
The value of Visual Design to your career
My new product launch (hint: it’s free for my subscribers 🤗)
Addicted to ideas
How to build a strong product sense
The value of Visual Design to your career
“Think the number one thing that doesn't get talked about enough when you Google, like, how to get a job in UX, design is just the basis that design is a craft. And so because it's a craft, you have to be really good at just making stuff. And so that kind of leads to the conversation of the importance of visual design across, I guess, junior designers, people just starting out. That feels like it's something that's lost in, like, the whole conversation between UX UI, the difference between the two, in my opinion. I'd say block out all that noise and just really focus on if you're a designer, you got to know how to design.” — Perry Wang (Ex-google, discord, got big brand names early in the career)
✨ I made something
Addicted to ideas
“The difference between people who have done the thing we wish to do – wrote the book, created the art, pursued the business dream – is not talent or smarts or even luck. The difference is simply that they did it. They felt that initial high of an idea and knew it was short-lived and untrustworthy. They understood if they didn't act immediately, the rush would pass. So they acted. Then they did it again the next day”.
How to Build a Strong Product Sense
Some of the myths surrounding product sense are
You are born with product sense — The myth exists because an experienced leader with deep Product judgment can often look at something and know what to do, but find it hard to explain.
Product sense is an Art, not Science — To understand how much of it is true, we have to look at the 6 skills of product sense listed above in point no 6. When we analyse that, we realise that barring creativity, everything else is an attainable skills.
People with strong product sense can solve any product problem — Product sense is domain-dependent. Be careful in applying what you know. Cover all of the above before taking the product decisions. Avoid yesterday’s advice – industry, customers, etc. change and so does someone’s product sense in building a particular product.
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