What product and UX design are as jobs rather than as job titles, how the two overlap, and the vocabulary the rest of the roadmap assumes.
12 articles
Listed inWhat is Product Design?Introductionon
The job is framing, flows, states, and handoff — not pixel polish. What you need to know to start, and what you can safely defer.
Listed inWhat is Product Design?Introductionon
Designing the whole product experience — the problem, the flow, the interface, and the outcome it is judged on.
Listed inUser-Centered DesignIntroductionon
The commitment that makes the rest coherent: decisions get settled by evidence about users, not by taste.
Listed inThe Double DiamondIntroductionon
Diverge, converge, diverge, converge — the shape most design processes are a variation on.
Listed inProduct Design vs UIIntroductionon
Surface craft versus product judgement, and the conflation that keeps producing mismatched job descriptions.
Listed inFunctionality over PolishIntroductionon
Why a flow that works beats a screen that looks finished, and how to sequence the two.
Listed inProduct Design vs UXIntroductionon
Where the two titles overlap, where they genuinely diverge, and why the answer changes with every company.
Listed inDesign Team StructuresIntroductionon
Centralized, embedded, and hybrid teams — what each optimises for and the failure mode each one has.
Listed inBuilding a PortfolioIntroductionon
What reviewers actually read for: the problem, the decisions, the trade-offs, and the outcome.
Listed inWhat is UX Design?Introductionon
The discipline concerned with how a product feels to use, from first impression through the tenth repeat visit.
Listed inRoles and ResponsibilitiesIntroductionon
The day-to-day surface area: research, framing, flows, interface, handoff, and the metrics afterwards.
Listed inCommon TerminologyIntroductionon
Affordance, heuristic, persona, flow, token, and the rest of the shared vocabulary in one place.