Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
The goal of the prototype is to give a feeling of the product not UI/UX and people do not know. Be very clear about where you are and what you want the feedback for.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Julie did not want to write a book at first until a publisher reached out. - she did not see a unique POV- she did not see herself as a writer's career
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
You can be a rambler speaker, but a clear writer!
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Julie had a journey through digital art - >collection - websites - computer engineering - >startups product on FB - design as a profession - > learn the craft - > Manage team of designers - Scale and Diversity (VP of design) - > startup founder.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Reaching the end of your intuition for your user base, without data you make a lot of mistakes on the product. You have to spend time with your customers.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
The aim is to make the product joyful and enjoyable to use.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Product and feedback the more and the better. And everyone has an opinion and they are valid. the job is to prioritise and balance - the synthesis. There will be contradictions. be absolutely clear about who is the audience. What is the "job" this feature fulfills for this person. What
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Julie was good at discussions in a small setting and withholding in a larger setting. She had to work on it and so she started something scary writing publicly on the internet. It helped with public sharing phobia as well as clarity in thinking and structuring.
Lenny Rachitsky • Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
Julie advises not to write for your audience, write for you and find the angle that works for you.