Qualities of Top ICs Product Designers

https://read.cv/alexei/qualities-of-top-ics-in-product-design

To all mechanical keyboard enthusiasts — any cons and pros to low and normal profiles? Doing mostly design work.

Work in progress: an insurance concierge service

Just wrote my first summary based on X posts about the qualities of top ICs in product design. Feel free to enrich it.
https://read.cv/alexei/qualities-of-top-ics-in-product-design

Just got back from Design Workout Berlin by Dimitry Barbanel — a pop-up design event for flexing your craft and problem-solving design muscles. Tasks varied from generating 10 ideas in 10 mins to deconstructing complex systems. Tons of fun and met very smart people.

I'm not sure I'll take any books released after January 2022 seriously. Maybe I'll change my mind later.

Asking for help :) I recently came across an impressive AI image enhancer (upscaler), but I can't seem to find it now. It was .ai-something if I remember correctly. Thanks! 🙏🏻

What happened to the Design Principles we were all crazy about in 2018?

What companies have the best brand language consistency (visual and copy) across multiple touch points, i.e. social, website, apps?

I overheard a thought from a front-end engineer: In fact, no one wants to work on design system components because it requires a lot of effort and brain power to consider all the states and edge cases, but everybody wants to work on solutions using these components.

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