A great collection of non-trivial advice that designers can (and should) apply in their careers and daily work.
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.
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?
- Boost impact — Discover strategies that top designers use to influence others, sell their ideas, and generate more value.
- Build a better career — Learn which companies to join to maximize wealth and to create positive change.
- Attract more opportunities — Build relationships and a personal brand to maximize your career development.
- Learn better and faster — Acquire the right knowledge faster by knowing what and from whom to learn next.
Featuring chapters by:
Cassie McDaniel
Head of Design at Medium (ex-Adobe, Webflow, Lattice) teaches how to build a relationship with your manager.
Matthew Ström-Awn
Head of Design Systems at Stripe (ex-SoundCloud, The Wall Street Journal) teaches about the role of doubt in design.
Jessica Harllee
Staff Product Designer at Shopify (ex-Etsy, Kickstarter) teaches navigating career challenges based on her journey at Etsy.
Ran Segall
Educator, Founder at Flux Academy teaches when (not) to work for free.
Cate Huston
Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo (ex-Google, IBM) shares signs that it’s time to quit your job.
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.
What readers say
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.
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.
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Do you have a discount for students?
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