Curious to hear PMs’ experience working with product designers. Are there frictions? Who does what? Where do you draw the line? Does PM write a spec nowadays? Who does engineering go to when they have questions? Is the designer in strategy or go-to-market meetings?
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Must be a ux designer
Communication is key. If an email can sound passive aggressive make a call or video call so there is no misunderstanding
I’ve never had a problem with my PM. I was lucky I had such a kind and empathetic PM and I feel the projects we do are respectful both ways, and we are working as project partners. He has the resources I need when I ask for them and I have the skills to help us get to our goal
Thanks! I’m more interested to know what PM does and what the designer does. Assume you are both courteous and communicate well. Designer doesn’t want to just be a ‘pixel pusher’. Designer wants to be involved in go-to-market. Wants to do competitive analysis. Wants to understand business. (Keyword: “wants”). Has no one come across this?!
Haven’t really had any friction other than sometimes at release time, when the product designer expects a different level of polish than me, who is incentivized to push a feature out in hopes of getting data quicker in order to iterate.
Usually PMs lead some sort of business requirement and think of some features that could potentially help the product. Working with a designer makes this real and can help them validate some assumptions. Also gives them something thoughtful to hand off to dev in a digestible way (UX, Interaction and UI). Friction is natural as long as it’s heading in the right direction.
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I'm guessing you're talking about UX designers? If so, PMs should concentrate on the business requirements are met. UX should focus on where to add buttons and how to design the flow. There will always be an overlap but I usually give UX the wheel control after the business requirements are done.
I don’t think that sounds degrading at all
Wasn't meant to be degrading.