Author:
Diógenes Brito
Company:
Staff Product Designer at Slack
Subtitle:
Sometimes, a feature announcement catches our attention, and it's often because of a well-designed graphic.
Introduction:
Every software company needs to announce new features…and some of us pay more attention to these announcements than others. Sometimes, a feature announcement catches our attention, and it's often because of a well-designed graphic.
Diógenes Brito has first-hand knowledge about this as the Head of Product and Design at Air. He's well-known for his work as a product designer at Slack, where he added a brown skin tone to one of the company's biggest product feature rollouts at the time.
In this episode, James interviews Dió about how these rollouts can have subtle, sometimes unintended implications beyond just the specific feature and product they showcase and unpacks how it's influenced product marketing since.
Bio:
Diógenes Brito is a self and Stanford-taught designer and engineer with a focus on digital interaction design and user-centered experience design.
He has over 9 years of experience designing and developing websites, as well as a wealth of experience in IT and physical product design (modeling, manufacturing, etc.).
His main strength is multi-disciplinary and collaborative design thinking, adding strength to a team to make it greater than the sum of its parts.
Summary:
Every software company needs to announce new features…and some of us pay more attention to these announcements than others. Sometimes, a feature announcement catches our attention, and it's often because of a well-designed graphic.
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