Starting a design project

Tech designer endorsed 14-step guide

Nishtha H. Dalal
1 min readNov 5, 2017
  1. Ideate in your head
  2. Pull out pen and paper so you feel like you’re in a careers page photo
  3. Spend hours trying to draw a good-looking iPhone
  4. Go on a walk
  5. Realize you can just trace out your own iPhone
  6. Squiggle a little, red ink and arrows overlay mandatory
  7. Grab a beer, more of the aspirational hip-tech-company-photo life
  8. Open up a sketch file and do your drill
    cmd+space → Sketch → cmd+n → A → apple devices → iPhone 7
    File → new from template → iOS UI Design
  9. Copy paste the status and nav bar into your new artboard
  10. Ponder upon the meaning of life
  11. Realize you don’t know where to begin, so set up a design swarm meeting
  12. Swarm about nothing, more beers, sharpies, and sticky notes #careerphotogamestrong
  13. Have an epiphany right as you’re about to sleep, sit up and design the whole experience
  14. Iterate little, print and talk a lot

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Nishtha H. Dalal

Author of The Product Design Interview · @etsy ex @meetup @okcupid @mint · nishthadalal.com