Stop 06 · Design Collaboration & UXTopics · 9/10
Working With Designers
Part of the Product Management Roadmap
In short
Giving designers a clear problem and constraints rather than a pre-baked solution, and trusting their craft on the how — the healthiest PM-designer relationship is collaborative, not directive.
How to learn this
- 1Practice writing a design brief that states the problem, not the desired UI.
- 2Learn to ask 'what are you optimizing for here?' instead of 'can you change this to...'
- 3Understand the designer's own process (research, exploration, iteration) so you can support it.
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