Product roadmapping and design planning (for designers)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- Get the template here: femke.ck.page/roadmap-doc
As a designer you may be responsible for managing the product roadmap. In this video I walk through the goals of a product roadmap and a template you can use to start your own. I also talk about a design planning sheet and how you can use this to keep your product stakeholders updated on your work.
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00:00 - Intro
0:29 - Goals of a Product Roadmap
1:30 - Product Roadmap template
4:43 - Goals of Design Planning
5:54 - Design Planning template
7:19 - Why 2 templates
8:05 - Sheets vs. Notion
8:27 - Outro
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Thank you so much for these resources! Your channel is becoming more and more valuable every day.
This was really helpful, thank you!
Hey Femke, thanks for this!
love your videos. so helpful.
What role do Product Managers play in roadmapping? Are PRDs typically created by PMs?
These type of roadmaps is what I wish our team implemented. I will give it a go! I'm also the newest designer on the team and feel awkward telling them we should be more structured with goals and priorities. Our designs often sit in backlog for way too long and eventually just die.
Much of the issues stem from lack of a clear company vision or communication of business goals. We tend to work on random projects which typically never make it to development or we have to scrap them and make a simpler version for implementation, which still end up taking nearly a year or year(s) to release. We're supposed to be "agile" but design processes and feedback loops are very much waterfall.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us 🌸 We are currently looking for ways to plan and organise our work in my team and this is very very helpful.
You are so welcome!
Thanks a lot, Femke. I'm looking forward to your next videos!
I have questions in regards to the PRD, who's in charge of writing it? Is it a necessary document to have before starting to design?
just want to say you look great in this video!
This template is a lifesaver! Thank you very much for sharing! Btw I love all your videos!!
You're so welcome Yohana!
Every now and then I get stuck with these Non-design related tasks, as no one teaches a designer that your 40% job will also be to this essential stuff. And then I come to this channel and get exact no-nonsense demonstration of how you can do this.
This channel has been my Go to channel for real, applicable design career making knowledge. All other channels just talk about either design thinking, sprints and tool.
This channel has been a lifesaver for me more than a few times.
Thanks. :)
Thank you Suraj!! So glad to hear this :)
Femke, thanks you for the video! As always straight and informative!
I wonder what project management software do you use in Uber? Like for a daily tasks, for top management be able to track and see the overall process/progress.
Hey Femke, thank you so much for your really nice content. I am Carolin from Germany currently studying UX Design to get a B.A. I wanted to thank you because you helped me to decide that UX is my way. My biggest dream in life is to work and life and love in San Francisco. So you're such a big help and inspiration for me. I hope I took the right step towards my dream and will be able to Succeed. I am nearly 30 and changed everything for this. So Thank you! So much virtual hugs from overseas
@@femkedesign Thank you so much !!!
Haha, great video! Also, “Typically, actually, usually..” got me at 6:40 😂
I just scrolled down here to comment this only to be relieved that someone else acknowledged it too x'D GOT ME TOO
@@femkedesign it's sometimes actually usually good to have these in the videos for a short moment of laughter besides such great content, intentional or not 😋 Nobody's acting here so not a big deal. Lovin' it! I'm gonna experiment around with your roadmap template and see how I can personalise it.
Thanks for your temple, I gonna use it tomorrow. Later I will give you feedback!
Yes
Wow this help me a lot!
I'm so glad!
Nice keep up
good and useful video. i had a question about the shirt sizing in the product roadmap, the smallest measure was XS=2 weeks. i was wondering what do you include in a project listed in the road map? would that include every aspect of the project, not only the design part (you do mention at the end that some projects in the roadmap do not include design, so just checking). A 2 week project that includes planning, scoping, validation workflow, research, design, testing, dev, QA, re testing... not sure if that could include much design methodology. where do you size the design (UXR,UXD, UI, testing...) parts? thanks
Thank you for sharing, feel very sad that you weren't able to use Notion it would have been so much easier for you but I love your categories and will definitely steal some for my project tracker!
Thanks!
Always great resources, Femke. Thanks
Any of you already adapted this to Notion, or should i? :)
Notion for this would be amazing! Would love a link if you have one :)
did you ever end up doing so?
Are you t shirt sizing based on time you dedicate on the task solely and do you work on like 2 tasks at the same time and does that affect how you t shirt size?
Great video and helpful as always. We do something similar where I work as well.
I want to get some clarity on the T-shirt size estimation, does it contain design and dev effort both or just the time it will take to handoff the designs?
Design only! We do separate t-shirt sizing for eng.
@@femkedesign Got it! Thank you 🤗
How do you estimate the time/effort it will take to do a certain project? Is it based on a hunch or personal experience and differs from one designer to the other? Or is there some framework that you use?
Thank you! Is "t-shirt size" a commonly used moniker for project duration in the PM world? Seems a bit confusing to the uninitiated (me;). Although I guess it's important to have a little fun?
How does this oppose/work with product roadmap maintained by product managers? in general do you have a video speaking about the relationship with product managers? :)
Hi Femke, do you find yourself doing mobile as well web ux in your role, or do you have another ux designer for each platform? obviously with websites, web apps, apple and android components, interactions, guidelines, tools and so on... its an awful lot to get familiar with. Almost too much for one designer, at least all at one time anyway. How does this work in your experience, do you guys generally have a niche and master it, or do you dip in and out depending on the project at hand? At which point familiarise yourself with that project as much and as fast as possible.
Also do you ever have to code? Or is it just a case of understanding the capabilities of a given platform. For example, html/css/javascript for websites and webapps.
AMAZING!
Hey femke, I would like to hear more about the check point process.
Hey Finny! I'm hoping to do a video all about this soon. Stay tuned!
Hahaa. T shirt size ..great way of working
you can also make this clickup
Not sure I follow?
@@femkedesign oh so for roadmaps, gantt charts and all those things I use a software called clickup. Its pretty good and cheap. I started using it like 4 years ago as a a free to-do list manager but it has evolved a lot from there. Thanks for the reply!
Can i get job at google without bachelor?
Have you tried this template in Excel?
Nope!
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