Product Design Guild, San Francisco

Product Design Guild, Bay Area

The Product Design Guild was founded in San Francisco and has been in operation since September, 2010. We currently hold meetings once every two weeks, alternating between San Francisco and the South Bay with about 40 designers in attendance. Below is a video, capturing the impressions of some of our attendees.

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Saturday, April 21st
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Product Design Guild, Bay Area is currently strictly invite only. Please add your name to our list if you are interested in joining.

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Sponsorship

Sponsoring a Product Design Guild event is an excellent way of gaining visibility for your company within the design community. Sponsorship involves either hosting us within your space or buying lunch for our designers. In return, we give you the opportunity to briefly pitch during introductions, have your staff work with our designers over the course of the day (this is the only way for non-designers to attend a Product Design Guild meeting) and post one job ad or pitch in our private group.

If you're interested in sponsoring a San Francisco meeting, contact Xianhang Zhang. If you're interested in sponsoring a South Bay meeting, contact Enrique Allen.

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About the Product Design Guild

We hold invite only events where designers bring in the work they're doing in their everyday jobs and help each other out.

It is a place where you can brainstorm ideas, receive informed critique, learn new techniques and all the other activities that are only possible in a group environment.
Rules

To make the Design Guild a supportive place for everyone, we have a couple of rules:
- You need to bring work
- Be intensely helpful
- People are trusting you, don't be a dick
Confidentiality

Many designers work on sensitive work, we respect that. At the same time, it's important to us that every designer is bringing real work. Here's some ideas that have worked for our members in the past:
- Pick a less sensitive part of the work. Even the most secret product still have mundane areas that need to be designed.
- Pick a speculative feature that hasn't made it into the product yet. Every site needs an iPad version now right? Is yours designed yet? Now would be a good chance to get started
- Donate some design to your favorite open source project. There are many open source projects that do good work but could be better designed
- Bring in a side-project. We like all the crazy stuff you do on the side as well