Saee Vaze

she/her • product designer @meta • previously at @microsoft & @adobe

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

#️⃣🐥I appreciate Twitter much more now. I mean it takes real talent and mastery over words to be able to turn all those complex thoughts in one's head into a crisp sentence that fits the 140 character word limi

[charlota @0xCharlota]

15yo me:
I just wanna design cool stuff with my friends.

25yo me: I need a seat at the table & be a strategic designer, drive ROI, manage stakeholders, empathy exercise, double diamond, brainstorm HMWs, UI≠UX!!!

30yo me:
I just wanna design cool stuff with my friends.

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

So what’s @DesignatMeta up to here in Singapore? 🇸🇬 Join us on 3rd Nov with your buddies as we cover this + tips to build solid portfolios and use storytelling to make projects memorable. RSVP soon!

https://t.co/Ca8S6nUD6b

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Take note, Singapore / Bay Area!

[Kishore Kumar @kishorenkumar]

We're 35 strong and looking for more amazing folks to join us. We're solving some hard problems in consumer finance & #ML and have fun while doing it!

If you're based in Bay Area or Singapore (esp engineers) check out our open roles at https://t.co/SbQybf8Qi3 or ping me!

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Gentle reminder to drink water and read @brainpickings more often 🌻

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Pandemic’s made me realise what a big museum-person I am. Found this beautiful NYT segment as a good replacement for the real thing for the time being ✨ https://t.co/AIpsRvstYD

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Lately my day as an ‘adult’ is mostly spent in taking things more seriously to not taking anything too seriously to convincing others to take me seriously whilst not taking myself so seriously 🎢 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

The jobs to be Done framework is practical with in-depth research!

Snippet from The JTBD Playbook by Jim Kalbach

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Anticipatory thinking is a super power when it’s used to reduce our chances of being surprised with unpleasant outcomes. It’s a fatal flaw if it holds us back from taking chances at all.

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

On how to land a great presentation

[Kishore Kumar @kishorenkumar]

[🧵Thread]
I take a lot of pride in the stories I get to tell as a designer. Over the years, I've been consciously trying to get better at storytelling. Here are 8 things that've helped me explain concepts, pitch new ideas, rationalize decisions & present better-

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

@sudo_shetty TIL! This is very cool 🙌

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Wrote after a long time. This one's about creating a cross-functional team culture that upholds visual craftsmanship.
https://t.co/3fRqf85JDN

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Videos are up on YouTube! Thanks for the opportunity @fof_hyderabad @pranavatandra @_hvardhan_ !

https://t.co/xcgwUbShkT

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

This was fun! Thanks for having me over and for organising 😊

[Pranava Tandra @pranavatandra]

Mindblown with all the learnings!
These awesome folks made FoF Sunday a success! 😍
Thanks! @saeevaze @punitweb @theadityadas

<recording will be up on youtube sooon>

cc: @fof_hyderabad @_hvardhan_

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

@theadityadas @pranavatandra @punitweb @_hvardhan_ @fof_hyderabad I enjoyed this talk so much! Learnt a lot in such less time. Looking forward to more talks from you ✨

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

Is "I can compress a 9 month long project for a completely new product for a completely new market into a 12 minute presentation for a very busy CVP" a resume-worthy skill?

Asking for a friend. 🥸

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

This Sunday evening (IST) I’m sharing ways to set up your next remote brainstorm session and make it as effective & engaging as the real thing. Perhaps even more ⚡️

Join the good folks at @fof_hyderabad this weekend for some interesting talks ✨

[Friends of Figma, Hyderabad @fof_hyderabad]

FOF 101 SUNDAY
Event Date: Sun, Jun 13, 6:00 PM (IST)
Event Link:- https://t.co/LlhLF1vwb7
About Speakers
• Prototyping in Figma - from zero to epic by @punitweb
• Copywriting 101 by @theadityadas
• Remote Brainstorming for Beginners by @saeevaze
@pranavatandra @_hvardhan_

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

@kanikat1010 Absolutely! And I’d go a step deeper and breakdown the *specific way* you made that impact and develop it next time. Like an unarticulated framework you ended up creating to resolve the ambiguity, or soft skills like leadership or an ability like long-term systems thinking.

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

1/ Working on a project that never ships feels like building a plane painstakingly and never seeing fly. Did you build it well? Or would it have crashed? You’ll never know. Disappointing as it is, there are gems 💎 to hoard while they’re still fresh for the picking—

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

And finally, remind yourself that it takes a lot of things to fall in place (within and outside your team’s control) for a product to launch. And that perhaps it’ll take a few misses before you find your career’s greatest hits.

[Saee Vaze @saeevaze]

6/ Community learning: Fearlessly share learnings with others. At Microsoft, the Outlook team celebrated no-ship projects in team updates. I’ve learnt a lot from reading about someone else’s experience of trying something and deciding to keep it from taking off.