how i actually got good at product design (and fast):

- rebuilt onboarding flows from things like notion, linear, arc
- watched old growth[dot]design teardowns on loop 
- designed fake app, for example: a budgeting app just to figure out edge cases like “what if the user adds zero income?”
- read angry app store reviews to find real UX issues people faced
- screenshotted every product that made me go “wait…that was smooth”
- made my own library of “flows that just make sense”
- learned what good microcopy feels like by rewriting shitty ones i found in the wild
- used testflight builds to see how startups evolve features week by week
- worked with dev friends and kept asking them stuff, helps you start thinking like an engineer too

never touched a design course.
just paid attention to the real stuff.