Product Design

• Effective Design Documentation: A Practical Guide

  June 15, 2024

  I watched a YouTube video featuring Femke van Schoonhoven, a product designer at Uber, where she dives into the nuances of organizing design documentation. Here’s a detailed breakdown of her insights, focusing on what’s often overlooked in design documentation. Femke emphasizes the messiness that can accompany design processes. This disorganization frequently leads to misalignment among team members, especially when designs evolve over time. It’s common for designers to leave meetings with a clear understanding of the next steps, only to return with confusion and pushback because new stakeholders were absent during the initial discussions.

• The Invisible Problems in Design: Lessons from Tony Fadell

  September 15, 2023

  In the insightful YouTube video titled “The First Secret of Great Design”, Tony Fadell challenges us to notice the invisible problems that permeate our daily lives. He starts with a memorable scene from “The Blues Brothers,” illustrating how humans quickly adapt to their environments through a process known as habituation. This adaptation can be beneficial in some cases, like learning to drive, but it can also blind us to real issues that need addressing.

• Seeing the Unseen: Design Innovations to Transform Everyday Life

  May 15, 2023

  In a recent video, A Product Designer who changed the world with his innovative designs | SANDIP PAUL | TEDxICEMPune, Sandip Paul shares insights from his extensive design practice and how empathy catalyzes innovation and problem-solving. One of the key takeaways is that designers must cultivate empathy. This means understanding user experiences more deeply than surface-level observations. Paul cites his own journey, starting as a cartoonist but transitioning into product design after observing newspaper boys struggling to deliver papers.