Advice for New Product Designers with Zero Experience
For the past few months I’ve been working as a design apprentice at Headway, and during this time I’ve accumulated a list of resources and learning strategies that I hope to share with other designers who are just starting out. I hope they prove useful to you as they did for me.
Before getting into design, I studied psychology at university because I have always found the human mind fascinating. It wasn’t until after college, as I was trying to decide what I want to do next, that I discovered product design through reading a few Medium articles written by designers on the subject. A case study on a product peaked my interest, and I started to dig deeper into what design is all about, and read everything I could find on it. If you’re interested in pursuing a career in product design, you are probably curious about people, like solving tough problems, and want to make…
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