Skills for Product Designers

The ability to understand, use and improve working process for yourself and others

Process

The ability to cope with, untangle and simplify complex problems and situations.

The ability to look for, understand and use the needs and constraints of the business in your work

An understanding of the power of data in informing decisions, and an ability to harness that data.

The ability to describe and execute interfaces and problems to a high quality of craft

The ability to empathise with engineers and technical peers, and write code

The mindset that defaults to thinking about the needs of a user primarily, advocating for them and building real users into their everyday work

The ability to simulate real digital experiences efficiently and accurately