Do Product Designers need to pass both resume and portfolio to get interview?

Hey, I'm adjusting my resume. Although one thing that sucks for Product Designers is you don't know what failed when you get rejected: resume, portfolio or both.

How do you review portfolios? Do you check all of them or only for people that pass resume scan?

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u/Used_Swan_7677 — 23 hours ago

What's you experience working with Designers?

Hey, I'm a Product Designer, I'm trying to understand PMs more, how they perceive design, perhaps learn something. Would be helpful to hear what you like / dislike about current state of design.

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I would also love your input on the idea of including product designers to run lightweight research with customers to help frame better hypothesis for A/B tests (the idea is to reduce amount of experiments and save resources).

And the second one is to bring product designers for product discovery, to run lightweight discovery research with customers before building.

What do you think about it and why?

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u/Used_Swan_7677 — 4 days ago
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The state of Design Leaders

Hey, wanted to check what are your Design Leads like?
Are there a lot of leads/directors that focus too much on visuals, not as much on solving customer problems or is that just a noise I see online?

Share your story

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u/Used_Swan_7677 — 4 days ago

Design Leader forces jumping to visuals, chooses intuition over evidence. Rejects mixed method research insights. Do you have similar experiences?

Hey, I worked under design leader with background in arts that doesn't understand behavioral design, design ops and does concept art for UIs.

Did you have similar experience? Are there many design leaders that are pixel pushers that are good at politics?
Share your story please!

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u/Used_Swan_7677 — 4 days ago

Design Leader forces jumping to visuals, chooses intuition over evidence. Rejects mixed method research insights. Do you have similar experience?

Hey, I as a product designer, worked under design leader with background in arts that doesn't understand behavioral design, design ops and does concept art for UIs.

Did you have similar experience? Are there many design leaders that are pixel pushers that are good at politics?
Share your story please!

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u/Used_Swan_7677 — 4 days ago

I got tired of sending text to myself just to get it from Android to Windows, so I built this

I kept running into this tiny problem where I'd have a paragraph, note, link, etc. on my phone, but need it on the Windows PC I'm already using.

Usually I’d send it to myself through Telegram/WhatsApp/email, which always felt like a ridiculous amount of workflow for one piece of text.

I know there are existing solutions like LocalSend and Phone Link, but I was curious whether the specific workflow itself could be much shorter.

So I made this:

Select text > Share > Paste to PC > it appears on the desktop.

20s demo video link: https://youtu.be/NlFbhIsgFlM

I'm mainly curious about two things:

1. Do you actually run into this problem? What was the last thing you needed to move from your phone to your PC? I'm doing this with my notes constantly.

2. What do you currently do when it happens?

And if you already use something else: does this look meaningfully easier, or not really?

u/Used_Swan_7677 — 8 days ago
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I'm doing a discovery for my shin training equipment

Hey, I wanted to fix few issues with tib bar that were very annoying to me. I also tested it with other people but that takes me only so far. I would really appreciate if you could let me know if you faced similar issues and if the equipment described below does sound like an improvement or maybe it doesn't make you excited at all. All feedback welcome!

The equipment I'm currently designing is:

  1. Ready to use in roughly two seconds. Simple “load, sit, and start” workflow.
  2. No awkward leaning-back position is required.
  3. No workout bench is needed. You can use it while sitting in a chair.
  4. Equipment remains supported by the floor, you don;t need to balance it while using.
  5. Supports both double-leg and single-leg tibialis training.
  6. Users can switch between one-leg and two-leg mid-lift (for example two legged flexion, one legged extension for advanced training).
  7. There is nothing to configure before each set besides loading plates.
  8. Contains no moving parts and has no mechanisms that could loosen over time.
  9. Only slightly larger than a conventional tib bar. Easier to carry than a dedicated tibialis machine.
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u/Used_Swan_7677 — 16 days ago