[VIP] The Effective Product Designer

The best designers are effective outside of Figma.

Learn how to achieve more as a designer with 27 actionable lessons on communication, persuasion, influence, decision-making, productivity, and more.

 
This book will help you:

• Boost impact — Discover strategies that top designers use to influence others, sell their ideas, and generate more value.
• Build a better career — Learn which companies to join to maximize wealth and to create positive change.
• Attract more opportunities — Build relationships and a personal brand to maximize your career development.
• Learn better and faster — Acquire the right knowledge faster by knowing what and from whom to learn next.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AMAZON BEST-SELLER SOLVING PRODUCT DESIGN EXERCISES

27 highly actionable lessons:

• Communication and collaboration
  • Building up your influence
  • Selling your ideas effectively
  • Learning the skills that AI will never replace
  • Building a relationship with your manager
• Career building
  • What designers regret in their careers
  • Attracting more career opportunities
  • Becoming (un)wealthy as a designer
  • Knowing when to quit
• Positive impact
  • Building a career that does good for the world
  • Finding companies solving impactful problems
  • Doing good with design decisions
• Decision making
  • Making better and faster decisions
  • Reflecting on your career and work
  • Identifying the most impactful tasks
• Productivity and craft
  • Making your design timeless
  • Building a personal brand naturally
  • Geting more done in less time
  • Outsourcing and automating
  • Adapting ideas from non-design industries
• Learning
  • Where and from whom to learn design
  • How to pick design books

+ a reading list of 26 books FAANG-designers found most impactful for their careers.

and more...

 
Featuring chapters by:

• Matthew Ström-Awn — Head of Design Systems at Stripe (ex-SoundCloud, The Wall Street Journal)
• Cassie McDaniel — Design Director (ex-Adobe, Webflow, Lattice, Mozilla)
• Jessica Harllee — Staff Product Designer (ex-Etsy, Kickstarter)
• Ran Segall — Educator, Founder at Flux Academy
• Cate Huston — Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo (ex-Google, IBM)