Yutong Xue is a Staff Product Designer at Meta. She has previously worked at Google and worked with various startups. She has worked on products like Google’s Pixel phone, Pixel watch, Meta’s Workplace and enterprise products, and most recently working on the Metaverse.
Yunan Xue is a Product Manager at Meta. She transitioned to product management after being a Product Designer at Meta for 6 years. She has worked on Meta’s various ads products, which are easy to use and make great profits for businesses.
This talk uncovers the journey of designers within influential companies like Google and Meta, growing as designers and switching from design to Product Management. Also to be covered are different archetypes designers can grow into in large organizations, common questions and challenges in the process, and what we think is more important than the archetypes.