The story of how we are able to move fast and work effectively at Statsig.
Background
I joined Statsig as the first designer when there were already a team of Ex-Facebook engineers that were actively building out the product. Before I joined, the team relied on Google’s Material Design Component Library. This allowed them to move fast and focus on building the core product without worrying about constructing custom components.
And communicating the meaning behind the creation.
About Statsig
In February of 2021, Statsig was founded with an office located in Kirkland, WA. Our mission is to “help people use data to build better products.” With the tools we provide as a service to analyze, visualize and interpret data, our ultimate goal is to help product teams ship their features more confidently (Here, is an article of how it started).
The product we offer today is a faithful replica of the growth infrastructure utilized inside Facebook that allowed it to grow to more than 2 billion users. …
Candid advice based on my personal experiences and reflections
In 2018, I graduated from the Georgia Tech MS-HCI program and began my journey at Facebook as a Product Designer. It has already been two years since I started keeping myself busy practicing design. Time sure flies!
Recently, I was contacted by the program to share some advices for current and future students. Out of many advices I can think of, I picked the five most important and potentially helpful ones.
I’m really hoping that this article is a meaningful read for you. Here it goes…
Five Tips
- Think bigger about design and…
Five key steps: understand, execute, collaborate, lead, and envision.
Based on my experience, the growth process of a designer essentially comes down to five key steps: understand, execute, collaborate, lead, and envision. Before diving deeper into each of these areas, keep in mind is that growth isn’t a linear process — it’s always in continuation. With that being said, there are probably plenty of other areas of growth that you will pursue and experience throughout your career. Here are just a few important ones:
1. Understand
Upon joining a new team, understanding the product (and how it works) is obviously one of the most important things to do. It’s also important…
Since Facebook’s earliest days, it has been hosting hackathons — dedicated, marathon-like periods of time in which people with similar interests and ideas work together on projects, usually until the wee hours.
Each team develops, designs and codes meaningful solutions that aim to solve specific problems. At the end of the event, each team presents and pitches potential solutions to our peers. The teams that create something super-impressive even get to share their ideas with the company’s executives.
At Facebook, hackathons are regularly promoted and encouraged for all employees, whether they’re engineers, product designers, researchers, content strategists or something…
This is the second of two articles by Facebook Ads Product Designer Geunbae “GB” Lee about how he uses empathy to foster goodwill between product-design teams and businesses. Read the first article.
When I started my role on the Ads team at Facebook, I quickly realized that I could not do my best work in a bubble. In order to do my job well, I would need to better understand and learn more deeply about the people who use our products. Unlike designing for a consumer-facing products, designing for businesses is more challenging; I needed a way to get inside…
This is the first of two articles by Facebook Ads Product Designer Geunbae “GB” Lee about how he uses empathy to foster goodwill between product-design teams and businesses.
There is a saying at Facebook, “Our Journey Is 1% Finished,” and it is posted on many of our office walls. It’s taken me a bit of time, learning, and trial-and-error, but over the past year, I have truly internalized and made this motto my own.
When I started my career at Facebook as a product designer on Ads, I faced a big challenge: Basically, everything was new to me. I barely…
Personal tips that I decided to share after engaging in 30+ office hour sessions with students all around the world, hosted by Students Who Design.
Background
Personal learnings and thoughts with regards to what was showcased, featured and discussed.
Intro
Last month (Oct 15 — Oct 17), I attended Adobe Max Conference 2018 which took place in Los Angeles, CA. Out of many other conferences that I’ve attended so far that have inspired and motivated me to open up my laptop and start doing things, this one taught me something particularly different.
The design tools are once again, evolving. They are trying to help designers to become more and more creative by introducing things like voice interaction in prototypes, making it easier to utilize 3D & augmented reality with flexibility with automation as well as quick adoption
Before I begin…
Before we even go into pixels, layers and interactions, what is most important?
Often when we see, hear and chat with other designers about various topics, the thing that commonly comes up is talking about designers that we personally admire and look up to.
When we were students, we would look up to professional designers working in each of our dream companies, their insanely well curated portfolio websites that were saved as bookmarks, rad visual and interaction designs that they pulled off… and through many more various channels.
When we are now professional designers, each of us might have much…
