Accelerate Your Product Design Career
Learn the skills beyond pixels to build better products and grow your career.
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#1 Training for Design Whiteboarding Exercises
Practice product design skills & whiteboard challenges used by top companies to hire designers.
4.4 on Amazon (342 genuine reviews)
What will you learn?
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Prepare for design interviews — learn about how businesses hire product designers and master the design exercise.
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Step up your design career — practice your product design skills to become a better designer and prepare for your next career move.
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Improve your portfolio — showcase solutions to real challenges in your portfolio instead of unsolicited visual redesigns and concepts.
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Interview designers — learn how to interview designers and evaluate their skills in the most efficient and scalable way.
What type of exercises will you learn to solve?
- Design a dashboard for a freelancer to manage and plan their client work. Used by Digital Ocean
- Redesign the ATM Used by Facebook
- Design a digital product to make primary care more accessible.
What's inside
- A 7-step framework for solving product design exercises
- 5 fully-worked solutions to example design exercises
- 30+ examples of whiteboard and take-home exercises
- Printable PDF-canvas for practicing
- Tips and advice from five design leaders
Improve Your Portfolio, CV and LinkedIn
Improve your online presence referencing designers who got hired by Google, Meta, Airbnb, Amazon, and more.
Recorded portfolio reviews by:
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Thom Ridder
Sr. Director at Intercom
4 portfolios reviewed (20 min) -
Cassie McDaniel
Head of Design at Medium
10 portfolios reviewed (32 min) -
Lena Kul
Ex-Design Recruiter at Miro, N26
5 portfolios reviewed (46 min) -
Jyoti Mann
Staff at TikTok (ex-Meta)
5 portfolios reviewed (73 min)
Become better by referencing the best
CVs — check how successful designers position and describe their achievements and design work in their CVs.
LinkedIn profiles — optimize your LinkedIn page to get more views.
Portfolio archive — access over 500+ categorized portfolio screenshots.
4.4 on Amazon (71 genuine reviews)
Master the Skills That Get Designers Promoted
Knowing every Figma trick doesn't get you promoted. Learn 12 skills that do, like mentoring, giving feedback, presenting design, persuading others, and improving processes.
Your step-by-step guide to design career growth
Set career goals — explore six design career paths. Use five exercises to pick the right one for you.
Understand the path — learn which skills top companies require designers to have on each level.
Build your growth plan — evaluate where you stand and build an actionable plan to reach your next level.
Improve your skills — learn actionable frameworks and tricks on how to:
- Present design and communicate clearly
- Provide and accept feedback
- Manage and persuade stakeholders
- Improve team processes
- Build relationships
- Use leverage and increase impact
- Work efficiently
- Estimate better and prioritize tasks
- Take and grow ownership
- Understand the business
- Mentor others
- Participate in hiring
- and more
Get promoted — learn how promotions work and maximize your chances of getting promoted faster.
Maximize Impact by Becoming Effective Outside of Figma
Featureing chapters by: Head of Design at Medium, Head of Design Systems at Stripe, Staff Designer at Shopify, Director of Engineering at DuckDuckGo
27 highly actionable lessons
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Communication and collaboration
- Building up your influence
- Selling your ideas effectively
- Learning the skills that AI will never replace
- Building a relationship with your manager
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Career building
- What designers regret in their careers
- Attracting more career opportunities
- Becoming (un)wealthy as a designer
- Knowing when to quit
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Positive impact
- Building a career that does good for the world
- Finding companies solving impactful problems
- Doing good with design decisions
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Decision making
- Making better and faster decisions
- Reflecting on your career and work
- Identifying the most impactful tasks
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Productivity and craft
- Making your design timeless
- Building a personal brand naturally
- Getting more done in less time
- Outsourcing and automating
- Adapting ideas from non-design industries
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Learning
- Where and from whom to learn design
- How to pick design books
Featuring a reading list of 26 books FAANG-designers found most impactful for their careers.
Reflect on your career to gain clarity and grow
A journaling workbook with 39 exercises for decision-making, craft, goal-setting, learning, career growth, and more.
39 Highly Actionable Exercises
Career Planning
- Build a career plan
- Make better career decisions
- Track job satisfaction
- Decide when to quit
- Assess career changes
- Align decisions with values
Growth
- Increase visibility
- Attract career opportunities
- Define job search priorities
- Come up with side projects
- Identify tough situations early
- Compare job offers
Collaboration & Learning
- Improve 1:1s
- Deal with anger
- Resolve conflict
- Decide more rationally
- Develop a learning plan
- Increase your role's scope
Productivity & Craft
- Reflect on your design work
- Break down complex tasks
- Have more impact
- Avoid productivity biases
Communication
- Give better feedback
- Say 'no' well
- Mentor others
- Ask better questions
Decision-making
- Make better decisions
- Increase impact
- Find the root cause of problems'
- Avoid decision-making biases
Grow Beyond Senior
Progress to the next IC-level after senior—whether it's called Staff, Lead, or Principal at your organization. Learn from the designers who've done it themselves.
22 highly actionable chapters
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Understanding the role
- Titles, levelling, and career tracks
- Management vs. IC tracks
- Staff designer competencies
- Staff projects examples
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Planning the promotion
- Steps to getting promoted
- Asking for promotion
- Evaluating your gaps
- Building growth plan
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What to work on
- Creating a Growth Flywheel
- Increasing visibility
- Spotting project opportunities
- Choosing right projects
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Seeing the big picture
- Understanding business
- Applying leverage
- Selling ideas
- New responsbilities of Staff
- Balancing quality and speed
- Complexity and delegation
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Working with people
- Stakeholder management
- Building consensus
- Mentoring and getting help
- Hiring
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Communicating achievements
- Performance reviews
- Documenting achievements
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