Budi's Newsletter

Practical Insights for product crafters

Every Saturday morning, you'll get one practical insight you can use to be a high-performing product builder. I distill my experience and learnings in my journey as a product builder. You can find me on LinkedIn

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Top 10 posts

1. 🔒How to scope product design work.

2. 🔒Principles to scope design work

3. 🔒How to be strategic in designing the onboarding experience?

4. 🔒Design exploration: How to come up with wide-range of alternative

5. About designing onboarding experience

6. Essential skills to enter Product Design.

7. Make your 30 days onboarding plan

8. Being more senior

9. Avoid instant culture

10. My journey in building Crafters so far…

Mindset, concepts, and principles

• Being a beginner

• Avoid instant culture

• Old friends

• Should you pursue happiness?

• Trust Battery

• Vitamin vs. Painkiller

• Bushido: “Next month, I’ll quit my job.”

• Dear Budi: What’s the purpose of being a product practitioner?

Product design

• Organizing information in interface design

• Find time for deep work

• Principles to scope design work

• Problem-solving principles

• How writing can help you to think clearly and be more articulated (with example)

• Clear ownership and decision-making with DRI

• On project management

• Dear Budi: What cadences do you run in your team?

• About designing an onboarding experience

• Problem rundown activity

• Is persona useless?

• Interesting insights vs. Useful insights

People management

• How to deal with an underperforming employee

• How to give feedback and handle conflict

Career and growth

• Design contest as a career stepping stone

• Advice for transitioning to a new job

• Essential skills to enter Product Design

• Community discussion: How to get the first product design job?

• How to get promoted (with template)

• Principles on career advancement

• How to prepare your one-on-one as an individual contributor (template)

• Dear Budi: How to make 30 days onboarding plan?

• Don’t rush during your interview

• See all archive

What people say:

Firzan 🥝 @iamfirzan

Try to implement Design Scoping Template from @buditanrim Newsletter. seems very helpful

11:11 AM ∙ May 24, 2022

Alim @cerealcoklat

I just subscribed to Budi's newsletter. I will try to use the template on the actual project. Thank you for making your brain accessible! @buditanrim The article👇 How to scope product design work newsletter.buditanrim.co/p/how-to-scope…

newsletter.buditanrim.coHow to scope product design workEstimating and scoping your product design work is important. Especially if you’re in the fast-pace environment. Here’s how.

5:11 AM ∙ Aug 4, 2022

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femke 💛💙 @femkesvs

Really enjoyed the latest email issue from @buditanrim that included this framework for an effective product design portfolio

buditanrim.coAn effective product design portfolio – StructureHere’s the hard truth: It takes me less than 2 minutes to decide whether I want to interview the candidate or not.

4:46 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2021

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ali @si_ali

Good onboarding design is about minimizing the setup time so that new users can feel the core value of your product sooner. It’s the moment where users feel, “Oh, this product is actually useful.” —@buditanrim

newsletter.buditanrim.coDear Budi: How to be strategic in designing onboarding experience?Onboarding is about minimizing the setup moment, so users can reach to the valuable moment.

4:37 AM ∙ Aug 11, 2022

Amy Fourie @AmyFourie_

I’ve been subscribed to Budi’s newsletter for a month or so and have really enjoyed the thought provoking content he writes! I highly recommend 🌟

Budi Tanrim ✏️ @buditanrim

Finally got a chance to draw some post illustration. https://t.co/lyH9vXMgbm

4:09 PM ∙ Apr 3, 2021

Vamsi Batchu @vamsibatchuk

Love this piece... do read it.. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Human-centered team vs. Feature-centered team – Strategic relationship buditanrim.co/2021/human-cen… via @buditanrim

buditanrim.coHuman-centered team vs. Feature-centered team – Strategic relationshipMove from discussing the solution to the outcome.

3:16 PM ∙ Feb 8, 2021

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Randy J. Hunt @randyjhunt

I love the content @buditanrim is creating and sharing. Really solid and thorough guidance for early- and mid-career product designers. Many principles apply much more broadly as well.

Budi Tanrim ✏️ @buditanrim

I've explored how to make a good portfolio in my blog recently. It will make you stand out among the candidates, but it is not a guarantee you will get a job. Normally, the next step is the interview. You should at least prepare 3 things: 🍍Last role 🍍Aspiration 🍍Questions

4:25 AM ∙ Jan 10, 2021

Caesar @caesarzkn

Journal buditanrim.co via @buditanrim . The last article tell us 5 key points to be better designer and also better human. Thanks for always write an insightful content !

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7:01 AM ∙ Sep 17, 2020

Nurdea P. Mashar @deaizwell

Belum lama follow twitter mas @buditanrim terus mampir ke buditanrim.co wah langsung suka sama gaya nulisnya dan isi pembahasannya, gak panjang2 tapi dapat intinya.. Dari tulisannya nemu jawaban yang related dengan problem. Thank you for sharing mas Budi 😁

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4:08 AM ∙ Jan 15, 2021

Melis ❄️ @zirswanka

@buditanrim @femkesvs I keep coming back to read your articles, spent all day on user metrics :) thank you so much for doing this.

4:56 AM ∙ Feb 9, 2021