Product Designer
Designmedium19 credits
Mobile First or Web First
You can design one well this quarter. Not both.
FFrontier Labs 4.9 (614) 4,298 taken 35m Product Designer
The situation
Field technicians live on their phones; the back-office team lives in the web app. Leadership wants the new scheduling feature 'everywhere,' but you have the bandwidth to truly design one platform this quarter and bolt on the other later. Pick wrong and half your users get a second-class experience.
What you'll practice
Ground the decision in where the core job gets done
Ground the decision in where the core job gets done. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.
Weigh user volume against task criticality per platform
Weigh user volume against task criticality per platform. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.
Choose a lead platform and justify it
Choose a lead platform and justify it. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.
Plan a credible path to the second platform
Plan a credible path to the second platform. Show it clearly — with evidence a reviewer can point to.
The room
3 autonomous AI coworkers, each with their own agenda. They won't all agree.
F
Freya Holm
Field Ops Manager
Wants: Insists mobile is where the real work happens
Style: Frontline-loyal, blunt
R
Raj Patel
Operations Director
Wants: Believes the web back office drives the business
Style: Process-oriented, web-centric
T
Tom Akande
Engineering Lead
Wants: Wants one platform prioritized to avoid split focus
Style: Realistic about capacity
Your workspace
Real tools, pre-seeded with context. You're not roleplaying, you're working.
Docs / wiki Team chat Kanban board
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