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Julie had a journey through digital art - >collection - websites - computer engineering - >startups product on FB - design as a profession - > learn the craft - > Manage team of designers - Scale and Diversity (VP of design) - > startup founder.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
The more senior the designer, the more abstract the problem they should be solving.
To break it down more tangibly, let’s look at some examples of levels and appropriate responsibilities:
Designer Lvl 1: Design a form that lets people edit their profile. Pretty scoped—assumes there is a profile, and that the solution takes the shape of a form.
Design... See more
To break it down more tangibly, let’s look at some examples of levels and appropriate responsibilities:
Designer Lvl 1: Design a form that lets people edit their profile. Pretty scoped—assumes there is a profile, and that the solution takes the shape of a form.
Design... See more
Julie Zhuo • How to Work with Designers
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks.
But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Higher Level Design
Julie Zhuo (Facebook) | TNW Conference | Building with creative confidence
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We have a core feature offering that is very strong. A small feature idea comes up that serves a subset of the market, but it isn’t too hard to do and it isn’t a bad thing, so we indulge. Repeat that thought process a hundred times and you have a cluttered UI, a large team, a slow product, and no obvious path forward.
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
Julie was good at discussions in a small setting and withholding in a larger setting. She had to work on it and so she started something scary writing publicly on the internet. It helped with public sharing phobia as well as clarity in thinking and structuring.