Can someone please explain to me the differences and their responsibilities between product designers and user experience designers? I read the job postings and I genuinely cannot tell yet. #design
There is no difference.
technically product designers are more involved in the product strategy discussions. but a company never has both Product Designer and a UX designer at once - just the matter of how involved the company wants the designer to be in product strategies. but realistically companies that use "ux designer" are just a little outdated / old-school / slow to change than other companies. eg) LinkedIn switched role title from UX Designer -> Product designer in 2021 vs. Meta used it way earlier tldr - it's just a trend
UX Designer is the better term, it just makes more sense, some companies have started saying Product Designers because technically we’re designing their product, but you could say that about everyone
I mean sure, you could say that about anyone but obviously “design” in product designer is used in the traditional sense, you’re visually putting together pieces to form a design.
I think it ultimately depends on the company, but the way I've generally seen it is product designers are similar to a full stack developer where they can do a bit of everything from top to bottom, planning, wireframing to prototypes-- focusing on specific products and teams. While UX focuses solely on the experience. Different companies may focus on different roles interchangeable or completely different per team or step in the designing process.
People here won't like but this is the truth: Product designer = Pixel pushing + light weight UX UX Designer = Problem solving UX and less pixel pushing.
UX cares about people by talking to the customers who use the product. Product designs for business. Less caring because “it’s all about the the art man”. Lol
As a ux designer who used to be a product designer - UX JOB 1. A company has a design system or internal design system library with components for you to use. 2. You are working with Product Managers on complex problems but not necessarily designing “new” products 3.You are prototyping flows, creating wireframes, and doing research even. Look at the double diamond method and everything before hifi prototyping 4. You use Figjam often PRODUCT DESIGNER AKA visual designer, front end dev 1. You work on mostly b2c products that are app focused 2. It is a lot of hifi work in figma that is visual ( the end of the double diamon method ) 3. Building new products or features
They are often used interchangeably.