What They Don't Tell You About Product Design 🤫

Avoid these mistakes and you will be steps ahead in your career!

Hello 👋, welcome to ADPList’s Weekly Pulse - a weekly newsletter dedicated to fast-tracking our community members’ learnings; with helpful work tips, upcoming group sessions, and community happenings.

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🔥 Learnings of the week

In this week's learning, our mentor- Eva Li shares the 5 things she wished she knew before starting in the product design industry. Let’s go 🚀!

1: Managing stakeholders does not mean pleasing them

• Don’t let stakeholders dictate your design decisions

• Treat stakeholders as a source of data and a way to get feedback

2: Not having a product voice

• The absence of a product voice makes it easy for the team to overlook the importance of usability.

• By voicing your design opinion, you’re educating your team.

3: Don’t know what agile is

• Agile software development is the iterative approach that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster

• For example: Responding to Change over Following a Plan, and Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools.

🤓 Find out the other 2 tips in this Blog Post

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📣 Newsflash

ADPList is partnering with Rocket Academy and Calgary UX to support software engineers and the UX community in their learning through mentorship.

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🧘🏻 Wisdom from the community

The reality is, whenever you sell yourself short, you’re subtly sabotaging your career opportunities and communicating to others that you don’t value yourself as much as you should.

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