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Maximize Your Impact to Build a Better UX Career

The best designers are effective outside of Figma.

Learn how to achieve more as a designer with 27 actionable lessons on communication, persuasion, influence, decision-making, productivity, and more.

Book rating is 4.5 of 5 16 reviews

Make impact beyond pixels

There are a lot of amazing books about design craft. But what about your career and growth? This book shows how you can have a greater impact on products, organizations, people, and the world.

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What will you learn from this book?

From the author of the best-seller
Solving Product Design Exercises

Featuring chapters by:

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Cassie McDaniel

Head of Design at Medium (ex-Adobe, Webflow, Lattice) teaches how to build a relationship with your manager.

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Matthew Ström-Awn

Head of Design Systems at Stripe (ex-SoundCloud, The Wall Street Journal) teaches about the role of doubt in design.

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Jessica Harllee

Staff Product Designer at Shopify (ex-Etsy, Kickstarter) teaches navigating career challenges based on her journey at Etsy.

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Ran Segall

Educator, Founder at Flux Academy teaches when (not) to work for free.

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Cate Huston

Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo (ex-Google, IBM) shares signs that it’s time to quit your job.

what’s in the book

27 highly actionable lessons

  • 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
  • Career building

    • What designers regret in their careers
    • Attracting more career opportunities
    • Becoming (un)wealthy as a designer
    • Knowing when to quit
  • Positive impact

    • Building a career that does good for the world
    • Finding companies solving impactful problems
    • Doing good with design decisions
  • Decision making

    • Making better and faster decisions
    • Reflecting on your career and work
    • Identifying the most impactful tasks
  • 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
  • Learning

    • Where and from whom to learn design
    • How to pick design books
    and more...

Featuring a reading list of 26 books FAANG-designers found most impactful for their careers.

What readers say

A great collection of non-trivial advice that designers can (and should) apply in their careers and daily work.
Rachel Rosenson Design Manager at Zalando
This book is thought-provoking and helps to position your work effectively in any organization. It makes you reflect in every paragraph about every aspect of your work.
Roni Dagan Senior UX Desginer at brain.space
This book is so practical. It has real applicable methods that I have started practicing day to day. Even as a senior designer, the ideas really shifted my mindset and gave me a whole new perspective.
Rachee Jacobs Senior Product Designer at Riverside.fm

About the author

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Artiom Dashinsky

I’m a product designer based in Berlin. For the past 14 years, I have led design at multiple startups, owned a small agency, and worked as a freelancer and consultant.

In the last six years, I have built my own products and published four books, including the Amazon bestseller Solving Product Design Exercises.

The products I built for the design community are used by tens of thousands of designers working at companies like Google, Meta, Airbnb, Netflix, and Boeing.

More about me: Twitter Linkedin Website



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