Weekly Roundup - Issue #16
Couple of weeks ago, I took part (as a speaker) in my first Twitter space. Hosted by Obvious, It had a few senior design folks talking about hiring designers and what they look out in designer portfolios. You can read a summary of what we discussed at the link below.
It’s delightful to see a blogpost from someone who has spent so much time working as a designer in the industry. Catt’s public case studies are good references for IC designers looking to build their portfolio.
Based on my career experience of working with PMs as well as being part of PM Hiring panels in the last 4 years, I identify with almost all of what Sidu describes in his essay about ‘Hiring Product Managers’. There can be many other definitions out there but this is the one that describes the PM that I(a designer) would like to work with i.e., a PM that doesn’t gatekeep, understands their team’s strengths and gives everyone the space required to build a great product.
Prior to this, the essay about PMs that I most identified with is this one from GreylockVC. Yes, I have read ‘The hard thing about hard things’ but I felt the PM described there makes sense for a sales driven feature factory of the 90s and not a true product team.
Have you ever wondered why those O'Reilly books had those animals on their covers? Well here’s how that book cover design came to be designed.
Laura Javier returns to write a hilarious post about Google slides years after she posted about designing Moments. Anyone who has used Slides will identify with this post.. I’ve pretty much given up on it and use images designed in Sketch/Figma if I need to use it. For my personal use, I prefer making presentations on Pitch.
Hope you have a good week ahead! ✨