Working With Designers

Summary

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.

• 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.