Product Design [PD]

The entire process of creating usable products and experiences, starting by defining real world problems and thinking about possible solutions.

Highly synonymous with the broad nature of user experience design, product design tends to be more concerned with

It’s all a difference of focus. For example, user experience designers may be more apt to geek out about a user’s mental model, while a product designer more likely to geek out how to implement the UI in front-end code.

Also called full-stack design in some circles.