Professional Development

Since I've become independent, perhaps the most common request of my time is helping companies develop good career frameworks for their UX teams.

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Clearleft has been working on a professional development framework to share with the UX Design community.

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One of the most common requests I’ve received over the years is to share a good job description for a product manager of an empowered product team. And for about as long as I can remember, I’ve forwarded on the job description that Google uses. It’s still a decent description, but I also think it’s […]

Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean you need to abandon your desk.

The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It

I haven’t written any blog posts for a while. For me, writing rarely receives the same priority as a mountain of other things on my to-do…

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years …

Navigating the individual contributor career path

Nobody warned me how challenging being the Head of Design at an early-stage startup would be. Then again, nobody warned me how much I would love the challenge. How did I get to this point? The journey started for me over a year ago. I had spent a small part of my earlier career managing a team and

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Sheet1 Product Design Career Ladder,Core Skills: User Research, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Writing, Visual Design, Service Design, Prototyping, Front-end Development, Video and Photo Production, Concepting/Art Direction, Quantitative Research and Analysis, Animation Individua...

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tw: earnest sappy career advice thread sparked from an earlier conversationYears ago I developed a simple way to make decisions about staying or leaving a job. I get emotionally invested in projects and coworkers to a fault, which makes it difficult to know when to walk away.— Bhoka ✨ (@boop) January 13, 2022

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Credit: ejaugsburg / Pixabay The topic that got the most attention in my previous post about being the DRI of your career is the concept of rent versus buy when it comes to managing your career. Di…

Credit: Erik_Karits / Pixabay Step 1: Review Being the DRI of Your CareerExpecting More from Your Career (and Less from Your Job)The Rent Versus Buy of Career GrowthHow to DRI Your Professional Dev…

User experience design (or UX design, for short) is a field that is being touted left and right as one of the hot new fields to break into…

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Leveling Matrix Product leadership & project management,Description,L1: Associate Designer,L2: Designer,L3: Senior Designer,L4: Lead Designer Customer empathy and domain expertise,We believe great design starts with a deep understanding of the customer and the goals they want to achieve. In orde...

It’s been 7 months since we publicly released our professional development framework. In that time we’ve received lots of helpful feedback from the design…

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