The role of
Product Designer
Responsibilities
A Product Designer is mainly responsible for the ideation, prototyping and validation aspects of the design process. They focus on translating research findings, business goals and user feedback to engaging product design that meet user needs, desires and expectations. They build, maintain and/or make use of an existing design system as part of their work process.
Product Designers work closely with the entire product development team, but especially close to UX Leads, UX Researchers and Front-end developers. They can work as a strategic partner to UX Leads, Product Owners and Product Managers, providing input for the product vision and roadmap.
Product Designers are sometimes referred to as Interaction Designers or User Interface Designers.
Specialization opportunities
for
Product Designer
- Specialise in one of the proposed specialisation areas for Product Designers, e.g. Accessibility, Facilitation, Visual Design or Front-end Development
- Take on more responsibility and work towards becoming a Senior Product Designer
- Consider moving into a closely related field, such as Front-end development
Accessibility
Accessibility is usability for people who interact with products differently. Learn how to help teams approach accessibility.
Front-end Development
Learn how to translate UX and design work into code or simply how to best communicate and hand-over design specs to developers.
Facilitation
Learn how to enable others to reach their goals, promote team collaboration and encourage innovative problem solving.
Product Analytics
Setting clear goals and following up on the impact of UX improvements can help guide research and design efforts.
UX Research
Learn more about how to run research project, avoid bias in usability testing and structure, build and maintain research repositories.
Visual Design
Visual design focuses on the aesthetics of the user interface. Learn how to work with colours, illustrations and more.
Resources
Here you will find everything from Slack channels where you can connect with the design community, to events, links and community support from the Hubs.
Related roles
In Visma Learning Zone you will find an overview of all design roles and their different areas of expertise and responsibility. In addition, you will find how designers can grow in Visma.
A Service Designer addresses all touchpoints across the customer journey within a product line, including how the internal organisation works to deliver that customer journey.
A UX Researcher is responsible for the discovery and evaluation aspects of the design process. They focus on uncovering and understanding user behaviours, goals and expectations.
A Product Designer’s specialty is to translate user insights into attractive, easy-to-use user interface that customers and end-users want to use.