A Product Designer is not Project Designer!

DAMO
2 min readJul 2, 2022

Hi my name is Damo I have experienced 8 years in UI/UX Design so I Sr. UI/UX Designer now (?)

Wrong

I am very experienced in Project Design, good at some agency things good at experimental things, and fast when I sprint, the truth has been spoken when I realize I can’t answer when someone asks me “How do you raise a baby?” “How do you raise a little product?” I don’t know, just love making babies! And let him make life with a new family. I make a really fast baby and good quality baby at one glance. I am passionate, I have a fire in my eyes and I need more awards from my babies, done.

Everything about that just come at me when someone asked and slapped me on the face, then I realize 8 years for me is not for raising a baby, for raising, to do the first step, how to make him sleep at the night, how to poo in the toilet, how to adaptation in his first day in the school.

The truth is I love making babies for 6 years, and I can make it fast and need more perfection in every detail, and I just learn to make a baby and commit to growing him in my last 2 years, and then I still said: “I Sr. UI/UX Designer with 8 years and I good at that.”

Maybe right, maybe wrong, right because I am doing UI/UX thing in my design, wrong because I just realize right now we have 2 kinds of specialization Product Designer or Project Designer.

The conclusion is Product Designer is not Project Designer!

Product Designer:

  • Analyze
  • Be Patient
  • Doing it right, it’s ok, if slowly.
  • Make the right decision
  • Develop and deliver with your investor money.
  • Iterate after development.
  • Always to continue, the product is always beta, come on, you always meet me again tomorrow and next years, more you know me, more you can give what I want right? right?

Project Designer:

  • Analyze
  • Go Fast!
  • Doing it right, fast.
  • Make the right decision faster!
  • Develop and deliver with your client money.
  • Hey, do you want iteration after development? Too late bruh, move to another project, and fix it in another project as a lesson learned, doing iteration as fast as you can in the night when we have time in the design timeline.
  • Repeat, start again in a new project.

So guys, what should I do next? back to my Project Design life or continue with my Product Designer life?

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DAMO

𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘶𝘱. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-azkiya-damo-773625117/