Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing & Releasing Web Products

Web designers are no longer just web designers. To create a successful web product that’s as large as Etsy, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest–or even as small as a tiny app–you need to know more than just HTML and CSS. You need to understand how to create meaningful online experiences so that users want to come back again and again.

In other words, you have to stop thinking like a web designer or a visual designer or a UX designer or an interaction designer and start thinking like a product designer.

In this breakthrough introduction to modern product design, Etsy Creative Director Randy Hunt explains the skills, processes, types of tools, and recommended workflows for creating world-class web products. After reading this book, you’ll have a complete understanding of what product design really is and you’ll be equipped with the best practices necessary for building your own successful online products.

Randy J. Hunt is creative director at Etsy, where he leads a team of designers building web products and creating off-line experiences. Prior to joining Etsy, Hunt co-founded Supermarket, a curated design marketplace; founded Citizen Scholar Inc.; and worked at both Milton Glaser Inc. and Number 17. Hunt writes and lectures about design and has been a visiting designer and critic at many colleges and universities. In 2009, he was named a New Visual Artist by Print. Hunt received his MFA in design from the School of Visual Arts.