For more sense, meaning, and purpose in our work—on the intersection of culture thinking, organization’s capacity building, system thinking, and design-centric life experiences.

I am Vinish Garg, and I work with growing product teams for their product strategy, product positioning, product onboarding and UX, and product content design strategy—often on the intersection of building capacity and establishing systems for the organization’s goals.

🧭 At present, I am making Steering—a students’ career counselling and guidance service that builds their family’s capacity and the decision frameworks to help them select the right courses, career path, and the college for their real aspirations and life-dreams.

A majority of products die because of the lack of right conversations at the right time among the right people. At the early stage of any project, I am most curious about:

  • Why we work—why an org exists, why we work
  • What are their operating principles, and what their goals mean to different people in the org
  • What happens to our work after someone leaves an org? Who cares, and for how long?
  • Why filling online forms continues to be a poor user experience, what stops us to do better
Profile photo of Vinish Garg, an independent product manager, UX leader, and product content strategy and content design consultant, founder of UX conference, Outcome.

My approach to work

Larry Swanson hosted me in their podcast

I share my thoughts of how I take a holistic and pragmatic view of the role of content and design and other practices in digital products, using an approach he calls “product sense.”

The state of design

The state of design 2024, by Vinish Garg.

My contribution to a project

Design and Critical Thinking, by Kevin Richard opened a call for contribution on their series—The State of Design, 2024. This is my post in their project.

Meaning—My Program

Advanced course in product content strategy, content design, UX writing, and content and design leadership, by Vinish Garg.

An advanced program in product content strategy, content design, UX Writing

A fast paced course for product content strategists, content designers, UX writers, and content-driven UX practitioners.

Outcome—My Conference

A UX and Content Conference

I own a UX and content strategy conference in Chandigarh where international guests share their experiences and insights.

Products

I enjoying working with leaders and teams who are willing to explore, learn, and grow to have a shared and focused understanding of what makes our work meaningful for all of us. I can lead the teams, define standards and systems, set up actionable plans for operational velocity, and make it work with pilot wins to have the right evidence early in the work.

A few of recent posts are:

Hosting guests

Since 2015, I host industry experts and leaders in content strategy and folks who work on the intersection of design and content.

Speaking

I speak at the industry events in UX, design, and content. I am looking for speaking opportunities in products and systems as well. My recent talks:

Focus group on Slack

I have set up a focus group on Slack, to build conversations that impact our work, our career, our portfolio, our success metrics, and our working frameworks. The Slack workspace name is Outcome and Meaning.

If you use Miro, you can see a unified view of my experience and my approach to work in this Miro board (opens in a new tab in Miro).