Lightning Talk: Product Designer / Manager (Jacob Puckett, Pendo.io / Omnivore.io)

This was part of a kick-off event "A Day in the Life of a [UX Role]," where we had current practitioners present lightning talks about their UX role. The event was held on March 9, 2016 (http://www.meetup.com/exploreUX-raleigh/events/228364314/). Jacob spoke about being a product designer / manager.

In the coming months, we'll be doing monthly presentations that dive deeper on a UX role. To learn more, check out http://www.meetup.com/exploreUX-raleigh This series is brought to you by exploreUX and Triangle UXPA.

Transcript

1. Product Designer / Manager A DAY IN THE LIFE Jacob Puckett
2. Freelance Designer Interaction Designer Director of UX Product Design / Mgmt 2004 2008 2011 2014 – My Background
3. Freelance Designer Interaction Designer Director of UX Product Design / Mgmt 2004 2008 2011 2014 – My Background
4. What is a Product Manager? I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills.
5. What is a Product Manager? I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills.
6. Check out my blog about this: http://tinyurl.com/uxprodmgmt
7. Check out my blog about this: http://tinyurl.com/uxprodmgmt
8. A Day in the Life
9. Customer Conversations 2 hours per day
10. Customer Conversations 2 hours per day
11. Design & Prototype 2 hours per day
12. Design & Prototype 2 hours per day
13. Customer Conversations Design Managing stakeholders, debugging a release, speccing edge cases, reading tech docs, writing marketing copy, coding emails, customer support, attending conferences, etc.
14. Trend: UX-focused Product Manager
15. Trend: UX-focused Product Manager
16. Design Thinking FTW from @johncutlefish at Pendo
17. Learn more Search “UX Product Management” on Medium
18. …or email me Jacob Puckett jacobpuckett@gmail.com