Product Designer
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
Lenny's Podcast
the Startup Ideas Podcast
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Silber: AI is already an incredible product designer, despite specific weaknesses
“Maybe one way to put it is I think it already is an incredible product designer. It really is actually already great. The cool thing about it though, is it's accessible to every single person. And it's a tool that anybody can use. I do think it's really good. …”
Lee: About 25% of Gamma's team was product designers
“And for us at some point, you know, more than a quarter of our team or about a quarter of our team was product designers. And I think that's like on sort of unintuitive level of investment, or at least that's not common.”
Field: The best product designers can toggle their personal taste
“I think the best, you know, designers on the product side can turn on and off. They can go, I have my own taste. I know what I like. And then, okay, you're going for this. And that might be different than what I like, but I can match it.”
Lingelbach: Early AI startups need an early designer with the founder as PM
“What I realized is you need to product, you need to productionize it and need to like solve specific need for people. And I think that really involves getting at least like one really good product designer in early. You being a really, like the founder needs t…”
Baxley: Every demand made on software users is a design failure
“Every time we make a demand on the audience, that's a failure on our part.”
Yamashita: Designers present idealized mocks in portfolios instead of production screenshots
“There's still a strong disconnect between what people design and what ends up in users hands. And for me, a thought experiment is next time a designer shares a portfolio with you, are they sharing the designs that were beautiful mocks? Are they sharing the des…”
Iverson: Tech design disciplines will increasingly collapse into efficient hybrid roles
“So I think the disciplines are going to collapse more. I mean, economy capitalist society, things are efficient. And so it's gonna find the most efficient way to get things done, which is often like a hybrid PM designer or a hybrid. Designer marketer or a hybr…”