Book
Product Design & UX
What design postings ask for, designing for systems that are sometimes wrong, research at real sample sizes, design systems and accessibility, and the portfolio review that decides the loop.
185 postings — a smaller field here than its visibility suggests, and the one where AI appears most often at 93%.
CHAPTER 1
What design postings ask for
185 postings, and AI appears in 93% of them — the highest share of any field measured here.
CHAPTER 2
Designing for systems that are sometimes wrong
Named in 93% of postings. The genuinely new design problem, and almost nobody's portfolio shows it.
CHAPTER 3
Research at the sample sizes you actually get
Expected in 83% of postings, and almost never with the sample size the textbooks assume.
CHAPTER 4
Design systems and accessibility
48% and 51% of postings. The two things that separate a product designer from a screen producer.
CHAPTER 5
The design loop and the portfolio
The portfolio review decides it, and it is judged on reasoning rather than on visuals.