As a UX designer, joining a product team involves handling design tasks while collaborating with one or more product managers and a varying number of engineers. It’s crucial to build trust quickly to establish credibility and gain greater control over the design process.
So, how can you build this trust?
I think that as a new designer on the team, you need to quickly show outstanding performance in these three areas: learning, design expertise, and communication.
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Learning from the book Creative Confidence: reframe a problem to get to its root and focus on the human needs, so that we can explore solutions to provide better user experience.
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I’m thankful for the lessons learned in my early career as a designer that has helped me build up my confidence. I would not have been where I am without them.
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Effectively managing and influencing your stakeholders is crucial to the success of a project. So, how to do it? Check out my write-up in Chinese 《视觉笔记 • 如何在利益相关人士中，有效建立你的影响力》.
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At the end of the day, maintaining a healthy partnership is really a balancing act. It’s not about who wins, but find out a way to make all of us succeed.
Continue readingContinue readingFar better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. John Tukey
In the event Design User Experience Driven by AI, Paul Lambert (Product Manager) and Annika Crowley (Interaction Designer) from Google gave us great talks on how Gmail designed the Smart Compose feature, and five strategies to create great user experience with AI (see sketchnotes).
Continue readingHow to expand your design explorations? How not to explore just “safe” design options?
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Trained academically as a computer science student, I was used to/still sometimes evaluate feasibility too early. When a solution appears, my mind starts asking “is this feasible” very quickly. That’s the downside of having an engineering mindset: you may run “feasibility evaluations” for your design solutions your head too early, rather than putting all the solution options onto the table, and waiting for your engineering partners’ expertise. This resulted in eliminating certain solutions prematurely. When you care about “what is feasible” too much too early, you stop going an extra mile to add a level of star experience for your users.
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