It depends.
#designsky

Staff level design roles should increase focus on strategy and vision-setting, in addition to quality in execution. However, as a candidate interviewing for Staff-level roles, it feels like I'm being evaluated *only* on execution. What gives? Industry misconception of the role? My own misconception?

Designers of Bluesky, I'm looking for insight from the industry. I'm trying to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between company size and impact a designer makes on a product.

If you work in-house as a product designer, could you answer me these riddles three?

#designsky #uxsky

@framer.com I love your product, but unfortunately I won’t renew my subscription until/unless you natively implement password protection on individual pages (workarounds are not secure). I really need this for my portfolio. I would only consider Framer if I needed a basic open content-based site.

youtu.be/_UXKlYvLGJY?...

HYPE HYPE HYPE

I recently saw a post from a recruiter saying that senior designers with 4-8 years of experience are currently in the most demand, rather than managers who set vision but aren’t in the day-to-day details.

I recently interviewed with a well-established late stage startup. There’d been a lot of positive signal from employees, and hyperbolic LinkedIn posts (“come join me alongside this incredible team on our rocketship to the moon! 🚀) that initially made me excited at the prospect of working there.

I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.

“Don’t wait until design decisions are solidified to ask what your users think.”—Jessica Harllee

alistapart.com/article/shar... #ux #research #testing #iterating

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The messier the file the cleaner the design

Holy smokes, what a great callout. How might companies adjust practices or culture to better accommodate all levels of experience?

open.substack.com/pub/mindauga...

Heck yeah we A/B test all our designs:

𝗔sk stakeholders which idea they like
𝗕uild that one

Sic semper tyrannis

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