5 practical tips to be an effective product designer

Alden Tan
5 min readOct 17, 2020

What does it mean to be an effective product designer? I define effectiveness as:

  • Being a critical problem solver whose expertise not only lies in visual and/or interaction design but also in being able to flesh out core business concerns & factors
  • Being excellent at cross functional collaboration & communication – being able to tactfully ‘handle’…

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Alden Tan

I design products for a living in Singapore 🇸🇬 Also, I like to write and think about how to inspire a better world.