Product Designer Goal Examples

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Understand your users

Conducting user research is an important part of empathizing with your users. Completing these milestones should put you well on your way to understanding your users’ needs so you can design better products for them.

• Prepare a list of 10 interview questions
• Interview 5+ customers using the questions you made
• Set up an online survey to collect quantitative data
• Contextual inquiry: Visit at least 1 user in their workplace this year and study their day-to-day habits and how they use your product

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Develop your product design skills

Let’s ensure we’re giving you the opportunities you need to be able to reach the next milestone in your career. These KPIs will put you on the path to improving as a product designer, but also push you towards Senior Product Designer.

• Join a product designer book club
• Participate in 5 networking calls this quarter with senior product designers
• Find a mentor within the realm of product design this quarter
• Attend 3 product design or UX workshops this year

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Develop product horizon

Through your research and insights gathered from customers, develop a vision prototype for our product in alignment with the company mission.

• Gather qualitative and quantitative research to build your hypothesis
• Translate your key findings into insights and ideate on potential solutions
• Gather feedback from customers and peers to validate and expand concepts
• Produce a final prototype and showcase it to the company to solicit further feedback
• Work with your product peers to determine priority on the roadmap

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Stay close to customers

Meet with customers and support teams to highlight unmet needs and common behaviors in the market.

• Meet and interview 3 customers every month
• Gather insights from Customer Support and Success Teams
• Document customer feedback to help inform future design and product decisions