Product Designer Improves your Sleep quality

Low sleep quality? Tossing and turning at night, wondering why your product doesn’t match your vision?

How can a product designer help you sleep better? Well, let me explain!

Every project has specifications, tasks, and roles, and connecting the right tasks to the right roles ensures efficient work and progress. It sounds simple, but the reality is that most products can have quite a rocky path. Delegating work is standard practice; find someone to manage, design, develop, test, and advertise. But building a product isn’t a linear process. We can’t just hand it off to the next person in line and hope the task will be done perfectly.

Special recipe for a great product designer

Let’s compare our project to cooking an elaborate dinner, you can’t just take everything out of the fridge, dump it on a cutting board, chop it, mix it, shove it in an oven to cook for a few hours, and voila, a five-course meal ready… Your guests won’t enjoy burned tiramisu meatloaf with sparkling wine and soggy salad… So, add a bit of separation and planning, and the process will become much easier and have much better results. We wish it were that easy with digital products, but every project is unique and requires a special recipe.

So, are you a gourmet chef who has created millions of recipes and can do them quickly and perfectly?...... Oh really? That’s amazing! But you’re most likely not… So get ready to buy groceries, have a working oven, and alright, enough about food… Let's talk digital. You have a product, you want it made, you want to sell it. How do we get there, where do we start? You start by contacting someone who knows, someone who builds digital products. Who do you call? Ghostbusters! No, you call a software development studio, like LambdaWorks, maybe? 

You are wondering how you started reading a blog post about sleep quality and product design but ended up reading about food preparation and digital agencies, I’m getting to it I promise. Smart digital product business people inform you that you need developers, managers, designers, and someone who will tell them about the product, the goals, and specifications.  Hey, great! That person can be you! Fewer people to hire, it’s your product, you already know all about it, and what you want it to be… Right?

Special sauce for the development team

You know your product, that’s true, but you have those pink glasses on, buddy, the fire is burning bright, and you have the hots for your product. You’re not really in a position to think objectively. It’s time to talk to your close friends and get some good old objective outside perspective! Who are your friends? Ghostbusters! No, product designers. They will crush your dreams, break your vision, and extinguish that fire, but all in the good hope of getting you on the bulletproof path with your product, and saving you time, money, and energy. Who doesn’t sleep better in those circumstances?

A product designer is like a therapist for your project. It comes into the office, who am I, what is my purpose, what does it all mean, help… Okay, now I’m done with the comparisons. Having a product designer on the team means you have a dedicated person to handle all your product journey challenges. They work closely with the development team, project managers, and UX/UI designers, acting as their top allies, to ensure smooth collaboration and alignment. A product designer has one focus: Product vision, keeping it on track, and tweaking that path when necessary.

Skills and responsibilities of product designers

Product designers design user experiences and interfaces for websites, apps, and digital devices. They see more than just design; they care about the product that is being built. They are masters of storytelling, idea generation, prototyping, user research, user flow, brand consistency, and more.

Remember, they’re not just shaping your product—they’re ensuring quality processes and meeting your business goals. 

Ingredients: 

• 500gr of….
• Broad understanding of business
• Knowledge of technology
• Human-centered research mindset. 
• Deep knowledge of design practices
• The ability to work in multidisciplinary teams
• And a whisk

A team that includes a product designer brings deep expertise in digital products and adapts its approach based on your unique needs. You can define specific responsibilities for them, ensuring their work aligns seamlessly with your project goals. If you're uncertain about where to start, they often offer workshop-style sessions that provide an introduction to the collaboration process. These workshops focus on uncovering the product vision and primary value, serving as an ideal first step for onboarding the team. You’ll gain valuable insights, a strategic approach, and a clear path forward for successful collaboration.