🤿 2 paths

Craft gets you hired.

But business impact gets you promoted.

So this week’s episode with Ryan Scott is a deep dive into how designers can think strategically about their career.

He shares a ton of lessons from his PM Masterclass for designers:

• What it looks like to grow your product muscles

• The right (and wrong) ways to get buy-in for your ideas

• Strategies for making data a part of your design practice

• Ways to spot new strategic opportunities for your company

• How to position your work to be compelling to a business leader

• What Ryan learned making big ideas happen at Airbnb and Doordash

• + a lot more

Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

🤝 WIT RAYCAST

AI is making it a lot easier to contribute to the Inflight codebase, so I’m knocking out polish tickets all the time.

And now AI agents inside of Raycast make that easier than ever.

Like let’s say I see something I want to fix…

In a single hotkey I can launch a Cursor background agent, add a screenshot or any context that’s needed, and then manage the entire process directly inside of Raycast ✨

You can ship code as quickly as it would take you to type up a new issue in Linear.

It’s a big deal for designers and you can start using it today 👇

🔑 KEY TAKEAWAY

Moving down the product path

This is the #1 quote that’s bouncing around my brain after talking with Ryan 👇

A Figma editor seat is no longer required to bring tangible design ideas to the table. So as designers we have to adapt. And at the end of the day we have two paths to pick from:

1. Move more into engineering

2. Move more into product

The only designers in trouble are the ones who stand still.

Every time I hop on r/uxdesign I see stories of how PMs have cut designers out by vibe coding prototypes.

So what does it look like to move more into product land and develop more “PM-y” skills? That’s what this episode is all about 👇

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