Mastering Career Transition: Architects to Product Designers

Mastering Career Transition: Architects to Product DesignersMastering Career Transition: Architects to Product Designers

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vaishnavi More

• Jul 6

Architecture → Product Design How Architects Successfully Transition into Product Design

Architecture teaches systems thinking, storytelling and problem solving. The challenge isn't your experience. It's translating that experience into a language hiring managers understand.

This framework helps professionals reposition themselves for Product Design, UX, AI and adjacent careers.

Product Design Architecture & Interior Design Mentorship Adobe InDesign Figma

Chris Nijhof

max

• Jul 7

We all want @Contra HQ to have a mobile app, right? This is how I would approach it! 😉

Figma Product Design appdesign UI Design UX Design

Esther Adewumi

pro

• Jul 8

Great work

Lynksen Digital

pro

• Jul 7

How do you turn a brand mascot into a visual system people actually remember?

🐆 Our lynx represents sharp thinking, curiosity, and attention to detail. For this motion experiment, we pushed the mark into a softer, unexpected direction - rebuilding it with different textures.

Same identity, different emotion.

Which texture fits the Lynksen identity best - flowers, grass, or something else? 👇✨

Adobe After Effects Adobe Illustrator Figma Visual System Designer Brand Design Logo Design brandidentity

António Ribeiro

• Jul 7

I personally love the soft blue and white version the most. Nice to scale it into the brand campaign or ad video 😃

Artur Kovelskyi

• Jul 7

I am not a logo designer and not an icon designer, but...

When there is an opportunity (and vision) I always try to help the client - as a small bonus to the main task.

Here is one example. Which one is better?

uiuxdesigner Figma Icon

4 voted

13%

28 voted

87%

32 votes

Closed

Maty Sandoval

max

• Jul 7

After, easily. The gradient card + rounded Pokeball reads so much cleaner at small sizes, the before version's flat white/blue split gets muddy once you shrink it to an actual home screen icon. Was this an unpaid "extra" you pitched to the client, or did they specifically ask for icon options?