What is a product designer?

Yep, I started off when the term “product design” was being adopted. I did work on teams that had the designer owning everything on the product as well as teams which had specialist designers To help.

There was a lot of noise this week on X about what makes you a better designer, so I thought I would finally push out my take on what makes you a product designer
https://read.cv/kend/product-designer

Great perspective and clarity on a role that is often misunderstood. I’m currently on the hunt for a job and I find myself avoiding Product Design jobs because the term is starting to mean a designer that does everything. The JDs on some of these posts are a mile long.

This is such a weird question since I have always been a product designer ever since it was called UI/UX designer. In a similar fashion, I have always worked in small to medium orgs where they cannot afford to have separate UX and UI designers or teams.

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