Explore every episode of the podcast The Daily Sprint—Coaching for Product Designers

Today we’re talking about how you should be thinking about all the AI design tools flooding the product design space.

Has design disappeared? What does it really mean to lead design if product owners and engineers can create screens themselves? Will you simply be the “human-in-the-loop” designer reviewing AI’s work?

I’ve got good news on this front, but I don’t want to spoil it for you, so keep listening as we get into it.

New! On Designy Academy: “Design for Value” Masterclass. If you’re serious about product design and how to deliver value in an AI world, this Masterclass will walk you through two parts:

• How to identify the three levels of value in your product, and
• How to bake value into your product’s design that result in outcomes which stakeholders are expecting

Find out more and enroll today: https://academy.designy.com/design-for-value

As designers, we need to define purpose in order to make strong design decisions, but what drives you to be a designer?

Have you found the purpose in the work you do, or is it literally a grind?

I’ll share my why, how it affects all my design decisions, and how it might impact yours as well.

Read “My Why” on Designy: https://www.designy.com/my-why/

Apply to become a guest on The Daily Sprint: https://www.designy.com/become-a-guest-on-the-daily-sprint/

What drives your decision making? Do you start with thinking or with feelings? Each approach has different results, and affects both your decision making and how you guide how others make decisions.

Become a guest on The Daily Sprint podcast! If you’re a product designer, find out more and apply here: https://www.designy.com/become-a-guest-on-the-daily-sprint

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My guest Andreea Lotak and I talk about aligning designs with stakeholders, do you have it, do you know when you’ve lost it, and how do you get it back?

Andreea is currently a Product Designer in the Health Insurance sector.

Learn how to stay aligned with your stakeholders with this quick course, "How to Make Vague Requirements Clear” on Designy Academy

https://academy.designy.com/how-to-make-vague-requirements-clear

Also, are you a product designer with something to say? Apply to become a guest on The Daily Sprint

https://www.designy.com/become-a-guest-on-the-daily-sprint

Today we’re talking about those times your design was totally wrong in a stakeholder design review, what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.

Two courses on Designy Academy that will help you:

How to Make Vague Requirements Clear

Getting Design Feedback That's Actionable

Good, solid leadership is in short supply, but you can step up and be one of those leaders. Here are three of my top-ten character traits of an effective design leader.

You can get all ten in a free email course from Designy. Sign up at: https://designy.com/10-character-traits-of-an-effective-design-leader

Checkout new courses for UX Product Designers at Designy Academy: https://academy.designy.com

Subscribe to the Designy newsletter: https://designy.com

Product design tools are changing every week, but today we’re talking about the top 5 product design skills you need that go beyond the tools you use.

Two new courses available at Designy Academy! Check out https://academy.designy.com

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Today we’re talking about the thinking that drives design decisions. I’ll walk through a new design tool, not to review it, but to ask the question: what happens when you turn your design decisions over to AI?

Link to the video walkthrough: https://www.tella.tv/video/what-happens-when-you-turn-design-decisions-over-to-ai-afe9

Link to the new Designy Academy course, How to Make Vague Requirements Clear: https://academy.designy.com/how-to-make-vague-requirements-clear

You’ve heard it before, but does AI finally take design out of the product design process? We’ll talk about the implications for your design decision making, the old process is out and the new process is in, and a universal process you can rely on regardless the tool.

Check out the premium coaching offer at academy.designy.com for realtime, interactive, product-specific guidance.

Today we’ll be talking about AI generated design support and look at three examples. What happens when you use them to review your design, and are there any alternatives?

Included is a link to a free 30-minute quick course on “Getting Design Feedback That’s Actionable” Go to https://academy.designy.com

Not all stakeholders understand the value of design because it seems messy. Designers want a step by step process. Both are extremes, but the Designy Framework is a clear approach.

In this episode we’ll talk about: why is design so messy? Why are there so many attempts to quantify it? I’ll share my Designy Framework and show how it can help not just explain design, but get product design done in business.

I mention a free course in the podcast called, “Getting Design Feedback That’s Actionable.” It’s available at Designy Academy. Just go to https://academy.designy.com

Are you making design decisions which generate value? We’ll explore the three kinds of value Product Designers are in the best position to deliver. Also, we’ll review your homework from episode two (then you’ll get a break).

Mentioned in the podcast:

• The long road to learning: https://www.designy.com/the-designy-mission/
• Learn more about individual coaching and free 1-hour session: https://designy.com/getcoaching

How will you use today to turn your design skills into design leadership?

Today we’ll talk about what kind of influence do you have as a product designer, and analyze your homework (homework? In a podcast?). Plus, a bonus exercise.

Have a question? Send them to https://designy.com/ask

We discuss what is the Daily Sprint and how you can leverage it towards design leadership. Also, we start an exercise to discover what’s challenges us as designers.

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