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Working With Designers

Product manager & UX designer collaboration guide. How members of your product team work together is just as important as the work itself. A fundamental relationship within the product team is between product managers and UX designers. While a product manager’s domain is different from a UX designer’s, there’s overlap in their skills and responsibilities. Tension and misunderstandings can arise when they don’t fully grasp each other’s roles or when they haven’t set intentional ways of working together. The folks from Pencil and Paper share their experiences and insights about how to collaborate well to reach your shared goal of building exceptional products and user experiences.

Reducing friction between product managers and designers: A product designer perspective. Marina Chernyshova has learned from 7 years of experience in Product and UX/UI design that the development of any tech product relies heavily on the effective collaboration between product designers and product managers. This collaboration is not always smooth, and friction arises for various reasons. Managing this friction is absolutely essential for keeping the project moving forward. Marina explains the reasons for conflict between the product designers and product managers and possible solutions.

Bridging the gap between product management & product design. it can be hard for product managers to figure out how the relationship is going with product designers and what they can do to improve it. Given how critical the product design and product management relationship is to the success of the product, it is important to ensure product managers have a strong and healthy relationship with their designer. Tara Wellington and Bruno Bergher share how to identify if there is an issue in the product management and product design relationship and four ways to strengthen that relationship.

Enhancing product success with collaboration between UX and product managers. Both UX designers and product managers are essential to creating products that meet business goals and provide exceptional user experiences. This collaboration is vital to ensuring products resonate with the target market, delivering value and satisfaction to users. The folks at Voltage Control explain how product managers and product designers work together while focusing on their separate responsibilities to lead to successful products.

Product management meets UX design. In this #ProductTank Tokyo panel discussion moderated by Tanmay Goel, Product Manager at Rakuten, Emi Kwon, UX Lead of the Experience Design Group, and Simran Kaur, Product Designer at Rakuten Mobile, discuss how UX design and product management are intertwined and need for collaboration between the two disciplines.

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