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Learn from the best: Product Design Principles
And the 4 characteristics that make them great.
In my job as Design Team Lead at SimpleSite, I’ve recently been part of creating a set of Product Design Principles. In this process, I spent a lot of time studying the theory, learning about best practices, and getting inspired by some of the most successful companies.
Being able to connect the theory with concrete, real-life examples has been a huge help for us as we’ve worked on defining our own principles. That’s why I decided to put together this article. It consists of 2 main parts:
- 4 characteristics of the best Product Design Principles
I also wrote about these in my more elaborate guide to Design Principles. - Collection of the best Product Design Principles
Scroll down a bit if you’re just here to get inspired by Asana, Codecademy, Medium, Pinterest, and more.
Whether you’re here to learn what the best Product Design Principles have in common, or simply get inspired by some concrete examples, I hope this article will be useful!
4 characteristics of the best Product Design Principles
As you’ll see in the examples later, there’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the format of your Product…