Creating a UX product design playbook

Ioannis Nousis
UX Collective
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2 min readApr 15, 2019

Welcome! I am so excited that you are here :)

Why a UX Playbook?

As a digital product designer, my role has always been to build and enhance the connections between the users, the business and the product itself. Over the years I’ve learnt that it is our job to make sure that:

  • We satisfy our users and build a product that meets their needs and relieves their current pain points.
  • Onboard developers with our designs and make sure they are technically feasible.
  • We meet business goals.

In order to achieve this, we need to constantly talk to all of those 3 arms of the organization and have a process to make that possible.

We already know those things Ioannis, I hear you say. So why am I writing all this?

Well, there is no right way to do UX and Product Design. But there is a way to have a structure. This Playbook was out of necessity for me to make order out of chaos especially when I wanted to introduce DesignOps in my previous workplace and create a playbook of methodologies and strategies that will help the Design Team ship better experiences and give a better structure on how we hire talent and how might we build a better culture.

That’s why I started creating my own version of a Product Design Playbook using Notion as a tool of choice. I still experiment with different methodologies and I modify it as I go along. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps use it as a foundation.

Here is the Notion page that you can copy and have it on your own account: https://www.notion.so/UX-Product-Design-Playbook-c1463a5c5eeb4a41957538977198a1de

If you found this Playbook useful please share your thoughts with me, I’d love to know how you use it.

Ioannis Nousis is a Digital Product Designer. Find him on LinkedIn, Twitter, Behance, Dribbble . Feel free to leave a comment or clap if you enjoyed it!

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Written by Ioannis Nousis

UX Lead @Google Search, previously Google Maps, film lover, guitarist, and former Industrial Designer by trade. Website:https://www.ioannis-nousis.com/

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