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Ex-Meta VP Reveals His Top Lessons after 25 Years Leading Product Design | Jon Lax (Meta)
My guest today is Jon Lax, former VP of Design at Meta.
Jon is a 25-year design veteran who most recently led design for Meta’s Reality Labs (e.g., Ray Ban glasses, Quest, and more). Before Meta, Jon ran his own design firm for 12 years. He’s got many hot takes on product development and design that I’m excited to dig into.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Why delight comes last
(01:31) Introducing Jon
(01:56) Why Jon stopped doing vision decks and north stars
(05:49) The right time scale for designers to operate in
(11:13) 3 miracle problems have killed many products
(15:14) Make it useful first, then beautiful
(23:38) MVP vs. minimum lovable product is the wrong framing
(25:37) The single trait that all the best teams at Meta share
(26:29) How to build a shared definition of done
(31:19) The one question I ask to bring clarity to promotions
(36:22) How to climb the ambiguity and autonomy curve
(40:01) Is AI the end of peak design jobs?
Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/ex-meta-vp-reveals-his-top-design-lessons-jon-lax
Where to find Jon:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-lax-900b5a293/Blog: https://jonlax.framer.ai/
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My guest today is Jon Lax, former VP of Design at Meta.
Jon is a 25-year design veteran who most recently led design for Meta’s Reality Labs (e.g., Ray Ban glasses, Quest, and more). Before Meta, Jon ran his own design firm for 12 years. He’s got many hot takes on product development and design that I’m excited to dig into.
Brought to you by:
- Amplitude: Get their north star playbook for free: https://bit.ly/4fPxUmg
Timestamps:
(00:00) Why delight comes last
(01:31) Introducing Jon
(01:56) Why Jon stopped doing vision decks and north stars
(05:49) The right time scale for designers to operate in
(11:13) 3 miracle problems have killed many products
(15:14) Make it useful first, then beautiful
(23:38) MVP vs. minimum lovable product is the wrong framing
(25:37) The single trait that all the best teams at Meta share
(26:29) How to build a shared definition of done
(31:19) The one question I ask to bring clarity to promotions
(36:22) How to climb the ambiguity and autonomy curve
(40:01) Is AI the end of peak design jobs?
Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/ex-meta-vp-reveals-his-top-design-lessons-jon-lax
Where to find Jon:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-lax-900b5a293/Blog: https://jonlax.framer.ai/
📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!
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