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In this issue, among other things:
Multi-editing in the Figma
What to look for when hiring a product designer in a startup
Tips on designing interfaces for children
New AI Claude 3 and Mistral
A detailed story about the creation of a beautiful antique
A cool app for forming habits
A new interactive post by Bartosz Ciechanowski about the aerodynamics
…and much more!
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🗞 News and articles
Hiring a product designer: 1 hard skill and 3 soft skills to look for
The Evil Martians told us what to look for when hiring a product designer in a startup, so that if the company develops, he can become a product manager. In total, they allocated one hard skill and three soft skills.
The four main skills:
Experience in developing complex multifunctional interfaces for professional use. There should be at least two similar projects behind you and about five to eight years
of MVP experience-thinking that will allow you to evaluate the project through the eyes of the founder, weed out unnecessary things and form a step-by-step action plan
The ability to take responsibility for the product. A good designer becomes a co-author of a product and can later become its head
Effective communication skills with developers. A good designer should be open to regular communication, and should also promote solutions that put a good user experience above ease of implementation.
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
Kate Moran and Taylor Dykes from NNGroup wrote in detail about comparison tables in interfaces and how they help people make decisions. They told us when such tables are needed and what they can be, and also gave a number of practical design recommendations with real examples.
The main thoughts from the article:
Comparison tables are most often used to compare prices and characteristics of goods in online stores, but they can also be used to compare training programs, services, application capabilities, and other cases
When choosing products, the user can make compensatory and non-compensatory decisions. In the first case, he will compare advantages and disadvantages according to several criteria. In the second case, it will roughly filter by one parameter, for example, by price
Filters in the search provide opportunities for non-compensatory solutions, and for compensatory ones, comparative tables are already needed
Comparative tables are not needed if the comparison parameters are mutually exclusive, unique, difficult to compare or very simple, as well as if the product is very cheap and does not require long-term analysis
Comparative tables are not needed if the user is not limited to buying one product from a category. For example, he can buy several shirts
Tables can be static and dynamic. The first category is suitable when there are few products (for example, a comparison of watches on the Apple website), and the second is when you need to independently select products and their parameters for evaluation
⚡️ Briefly
Multi-editing has released in the Figma. Now you can edit multiple objects at the same time.
A Practical Guide To Designing For Children. Vitaly Friedman gave some practical advice on designing children's interfaces, taking into account the interests of both children and their parents. He also shared a lot of links to useful materials on the topic.
New technologies
The Claude 3 family of neural networks has been released. According to the creators, it surpasses GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra in almost all tests. However, it is not compared with the GPT-4 Turbo.
Paris-based startup Mistral AI has announced the launch of a new AI model called Mistral Large. It is focused on reasoning, supports five languages, is cheaper and will be able to compete with top models such as GPT-4 and Claude 2. According to the developers, Mistral Large ranks second after GPT-4 in a number of benchmarks.
They also announced the chatbot Le Chat, which should become an alternative to ChatGPT. At the time of publication, it is available in beta.
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