Have been meeting lots of product designers at highly funded + successful companies who don't do any (Figma) prototyping, but just create mocks 🤔

How the heck does this work? As product designers, it's our job to come up with solutions to problems + prototyping is key to defining the UX…

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Curious about your thoughts on this, @nonlinear.eth

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It’s a product designer’s job to (be able to) do all of these things.

it's low fidelity mockups on a whiteboard, detail should only come in for ui, not ux

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Nothing against paper prototypes, just mentioned Figma because I wanted to be clear that I wasn’t referring to code. 

Context matters. If screens already exist, can leverage screenshots in the flow to prototype. It’s good practice for documentation and maintaining historical knowledge. UX is as important as UI.

A lot of key stuff we use today got designed and built just fine before figma existed. Even paper prototypes can go a long way in user testing.

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Beyond user testing but rather standard practice and covering all the bases of the many flows in a product as well as documenting it clearly so the next designer that comes along can pick things up more easily.

You can “test” mocks even if they don’t make a standalone prototype.

I personally wouldn’t skip it, but linking screens in Figma isn’t a necessary step

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Not speaking to graphic or brand designers, they’re masters at what they do. I’m blown away by their skill sets. However, it’s an entirely different job. I’m only speaking about the product and UX designers on design teams.

Maybe they have a graphic design background (instead of UX/product) and that's why they start from the thing they feel the most comfortable with?

a surprising number of teams get away with designing on the whim while coding 😭😭 mocks is still okay.