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"Why Designers Get Frustrated With PM & Eng (And How To Fix It)" 4 min watch from Shreyas Doshi Thoughtful clip for all three members of a product trio. As designers, it's easy to get frustrated with our product partners (and vice versa!). But we can help them help us by setting clear expectations before starting a new project, as Shreyas Doshi points out. I'm making a conscious effort to get annoyingly clear on expectations before taking on new projects. My younger designer self might have been eager to just get the task requirements, output something, and check that box on my to-do list. But now, I realize that time spent understanding and clarifying expectations is not a waste of time. Some projects might be creating tactical mockups that are only incremental improvements over the current flow... and that's okay! Not everything we output as designers will flow perfectly through a design process. But by setting clear expectations, we can ensure we're working towards the same impactful goals as our team. https://lnkd.in/gtVcT66u

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Whats your default interface for live voice conversations? A call? Just tried “Call Arc” feature by the Arc browser! Could perhaps be the simplest yet most familiar interface to converse with AI!

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If we're not talking about design maturity, agile process, or craft, then us designers are probably talking about ✨quality.✨ I certainly see my interviewer's eyes light up when I mention this magical word. "Design is the one that has to hold the quality bar," I tell them. But what if that didn't have to be true? For a truly high-quality product, I don't think it should be design holding the line. It has to be something baked into the organization - everyone holds the quality bar. Even though "quality" is a slippery thing to define, if we can define it and hold ourselves to it, we can reduce the tension in the org and start to think less about the mere baseline quality for the product and more about raising that bar - delighting the user. I very much enjoyed Luke Anthony Firth's take on how they folded quality into their product building process. Have a read! https://lnkd.in/g4SenmYZ #designleadership #productprocess #productdesign #productquality #designquality #opentowork

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Most designers are trained to present work to our peers, but as your career matures, your audience expands to include many other departments who don’t speak “design”. This article resonated with me and offers some sage advice about the use of storytelling and a “business lens” to craft more compelling presentations. #ProductDesign #Storytelling #UserResearch #BusinessObjectives

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