or 12 things junior designers need to focus on for career growth — In my 4+ years in the design field, I have interviewed, hired, and worked with a good number of designers. I also started as a junior, and while people who were working with me are still in intermediate positions, I was able to hack through my career and am currently…

3 portfolio priorities to focus on as a junior product designer. — When it’s time to make or remake a product design portfolio, many designers struggle to create an effective collection of work that leave a strong impression on hiring managers. Typically, the majority of advice you find tackles a top‐level understanding of well‐made portfolios. I’m sure we’ve all run across a…

The list of the best systems built and maintained by the companies with best practices in the industry that you can use to learn from and inspire your designs. — Over the last few years, the scale and speed of designing an interface have significantly increased. There are millions of web and mobile applications, and those millions of websites or apps might have hundreds and thousands of screens. We need design systems to manage design at scale and streamline the…

A curated list of 11 first-rate Product Design resources. — A product designer’s usual workday might involve working with other members of the design team and product managers, conducting user research on competing apps and features, brainstorming with peers from different departments, sketching, wireframing, or prototyping, creating perfect comps in Sketch, design icons in Illustrator, and what not. …

Insights to create a Figma file template for your team — Why Create a Template? A file template will help your team achieve a standardized way of structuring your designs in Figma. Collaborators and viewers of your file should be able to find what they need. Ways of Working In March of 2022, my UX team fully migrated over to Figma, and the opportunity arose to establish a…