Senior designers:
What resources would you recommend to less experienced designers to level up their product strategy toolkit?
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@itspatmorgan
product *strategy* is a squishy term (more general than specialized), so I'd suggest resources to research, study, absorb and apply both in & out of design contexts - might look something like:
@stratechery
- read/listen to how
@benthompson
thinks about high-level strategy (both…
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@itspatmorgan
Living their life outside of computers and away from their desk. (I’m surprised at how much this is an issue)
Active listening… Being inquisitive and asking questions to people about what sorts of preferences they have about the apps they use.
Reading and writing more.
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@DevonFrohne
Leading an interesting life: not to be underrated!
Reading anything that you're finding particularly inspiring at the moment Devon?
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@itspatmorgan
I’m not sure I really understand the question, but it helps to be familiar with:
- workshopping strategies
- design thinking
- business perspectives
- working with data
- KPIs
- researching
- structuring
Some tools:
- mobbin
- maze co
- ibm’s free trainings
- figma ofc
- miro
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@itspatmorgan
Escaping the Build Trap by
@lissijean
,
@ttorres
’ Continuous Discovery Habits, the
@cagan
series (Inspired, Empowered), and Christian Crumlish’s “Product Management for UX People” (Rosenfeld) would be a good start. Jamie Levy’s UX Strategy book has a lot of overlap with PdM today
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@itspatmorgan
How to present and articulate a design (or strategy). Ideas in your head are great, but useless unless they can survive in the wild
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