This document provides guidance for product managers working with designers. It emphasizes understanding the context of the design work, sharing information and iterating with designers, defining clear business and user goals, identifying constraints, and providing constructive feedback rather than solutions. The overall message is that collaboration, open communication, and iteration are key to successful partnerships between product managers and designers.

1. Working with Designers

2. About Me
• Currently: Director Product Management
• 19 years building products
• 10 years product management
• Company sizes: 18 – 60,000
• Financial services, education; B2B, B2C

4. Agenda
• Know your context
• Share & Iterate
• Define clear business and user goals
• Identify constraints
• Providing feedback

5. Context
Visual design
Graphic design
User experience
Info architecture
Content strategy
Prototyping
New product / feature
Incremental improvement
Redesign / upgrade

6. Share

10. Needs, Not Solution
On the page where I start a test, I can see a list
of previous attempts I made. This will be just
like the list an instructor sees.
I can see a list of any previous attempts I have
for this test.

11. Learn & Be Open

12. Constraints

13. Make it …

14. Adapt Your Style

15. Bringing It Together
• Define clear business
and user goals
• Collaborate on user
research
• Identify constraints
• Avoid providing the
solution, but give
constructive criticism
• Iterate

16. Further Reading

17. Further Reading

18. Connect
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