This book provides guidance for UX designers wanting to advance to roles such as Staff, Lead, or Principal without transitioning into management.
Features
Understand the role
Learn what skills companies require for staff designers and explore the types of projects staff designers work on.
Find the gaps
Identify necessary skill improvements to be promoted to a staff designer, based on industry requirements.
Build a plan
Create an actionable promotion plan using insights from designers who have successfully advanced in their careers.
Whiteboard challenges
Practice with whiteboard challenges that leading companies use for hiring designers, helping you prepare for UX job interviews and hone your product thinking skills.
Portfolio improvement resources
Includes eBooks, reports based on portfolio analyses, and access to a database of top portfolios from FAANG companies to help improve your own design portfolio.
Design Interview Preparation
Learn about how businesses hire digital product designers and master design exercises to boost interview performance.
Portfolio Improvement
Showcase solutions to real challenges in your portfolio instead of unsolicited redesigns, helping you stand out to potential employers.
Framework for Design Exercises
Offers a 7-step framework for solving digital product design exercises, helping designers tackle various design challenges effectively.
Expert Advice
Features tips and advice from industry experts around the globe, sharing their best practices and insider knowledge for career advancement.
Skill evaluation and improvement
Provides a framework for evaluating competency levels and offers techniques to improve essential soft skills like presenting, giving feedback, and stakeholder management.
Decision-making Framework
Increase your decision-making impact and understand root causes of problems, avoiding biases.
Interview process overview
Provides a detailed breakdown of the typical interview process for UX and product design roles, including key steps like phone screening, on-site or phone interviews, portfolio presentations, and optional informal interviews.
Behavioral question preparation
Offers guidance on how to handle common behavioral questions asked during interviews, with resources for preparing effective responses to these questions.
Portfolio presentation tips
Includes strategies for effectively presenting a design portfolio during interviews, drawing on successful examples from designers at top tech companies.
Design exercise framework
Offers a framework for tackling design exercises, which are a critical component of the UX interview process, helping applicants structure and articulate their design solutions.
Competency Matrices
Provides detailed competency matrices from various companies like Figma, Intercom, and GitLab, which outline skills and responsibilities required for different design roles.
Design Role Frameworks
Includes frameworks for design roles that detail role responsibilities, levels, and competencies to help designers and managers align on expectations.
Weekly design challenges
Receive a new design challenge each week inspired by actual tasks used by companies like Facebook, Google, and WeWork to evaluate UX design candidates.