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Nick Finck
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Nick Finck
@nickf
User experience & product design leader, advisor, coach, + speaker. Founder of @CraftAndRigor. Loves pizza & D&D. Past: Meta, AWS, Deloitte, Ubermind. He/him.
- How to piss off every designer ever. userinyerface.com
- 📍Product vision | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | 📍Understanding user needs | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | 📍Some cool new technology | 📍Call the MVP a v1 & done | 📍A product no one wants
- Bad product leadership: Here is something we want you to design. Good product leadership: We believe there is a problem with X, so we want you to figure out how to address it. Great product leadership: Help us understand what our customer's problems are & how to address them.
- Dear designers, there is no design tool war, there is not even a battle. Your favorite tool doesn’t matter. What matters is your ability to operate in many tools, not just one. Oh, and don’t bother replying with your bullshit rationale, I simply don’t give a fuck.
- I promise not to bombard you with personal photos, but this is a big announcement for us. Our first major release has finally shipped, just 4 days after our originally scheduled launch date, and I have to say he is performing quite well. Introducing Luka Finck.
- Myth of hiring Sr designers: “we want them to hit the ground running” No one hits the ground running. Ramp up duration can take up to a year depending on the complexity of the product space is. What defines short ramp up is a growth mindset, not level or years of experience.
- If I said it a billion times it will never be enough: The user experience doesn’t end at the edges of the screen. Therefore a UX designer’s job & a UX researcher’s job shouldn’t be limited to what happens on screen, it should take in the entire context & any touchpoints involved.
- I see a lot of design content (articles, podcasts, talks, etc) referencing only those at big brand names (e.g. Fortune 500) for quotes & commentary on how they work. Folks, let me be the first to tell you the big companies don’t know any better than you do. Blaze your own path.
- Designers, your reading list homework: Future Ethics (@Cennydd) amazon.com/Future-Ethics-… Ruined by Design (@monteiro) amazon.com/Ruined-Design-… Tragic Design (@DesignUXUI & @CynthiaSavard) amazon.com/Tragic-Design-… Ethics isn't just a tangental thing, its your job. #design #ethics
- Things you can use to prototype: - Figma - InVision - XD - Sketch - Principle - PortoPie - HTML/CSS/JS - Framer - Webflow - UXpin - Origami Studio - Keynote/PowerPoint - pen/paper - whiteboards - paper - construction paper - sticky notes - cardboard - Legos The tool matters not.
