Artiom Dashinsky

Practice your product design and UX skills. Prepare for your next job interview. Redesign the NYC metrocard system. Design a dashboard for a general practitioner. Redesign an ATM. Learn how to solve and present exercises like these, that top startups use to interview designers for product design and UI/UX roles. Today top companies are looking for business-minded designers who are not just focused on visuals. With this book you can practice this kind of mindset, prepare for job interview, learn how to interview other designers and find concepts for projects for your portfolio. What will you learn from this book: Prepare for the design interview -- prepare for the design exercise and learn more about how tech companies hire product designers. Improve your portfolio -- use product challenges to showcase in your porfolio instead of unsolicited visual redesigns. Step up your design career -- practice your product design skills to become a better designer and prepare for your next career move. Interview designers -- learn how to interview designers to evaluate their skills in the most efficient and scalable way. What's inside? A 7-step framework for solving product design exercises 30+ examples of exercises similar to exercises used by Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. 5 full solutions for product design exercises 5 short interviews with design leaders that worked at Apple, Google, Pinterest, IDEO etc.

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Solving Product Design Exercises

Indrashish Ghosh

Julie Zhuo, VP of Product Design at Facebook, describes the design career path in three steps: 

Step 1: Craft & Execution mastering the tools, getting better at designing clear and visually aesthetic interfaces. sharpening the basics of design,

Step 2: Product Thinking Julie puts it this way: "Strong product thinking means that you understand what a good outcome is and how to design an experience that would lead to those good Outconmes." 

Step 3: Influencing Skills clear communication, effective collaboration.

Designers play a role beyond aesthetics, focusing on product thinking 

Designers in technology start-ups need to be involved directly in the business side, understanding company strategy, retention/ engagemer /conversion metrics, revenue model etc.

Always be aware of the "why" behind your design decisions and be ready to explain them. There are no perfect solutions and your ability to talk about its pros and cons is both inmportant for you and your team

Use the 5W1H method to gain context for the problem 

Why am I building this? •Who am I building it for? • When and where will it be used? What am I building? • How could I measure it?

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