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Side hustles were a zero interest rate phenomenon
Shopify, $SHOP, CEO Tobi Lütke discourages employees from having side hustles, saying Shopify requires 'unshared attention,' per BI.
It's weird that designing and building emails is still a hard problem in 2023.
Excited to see progress in this space.
🚀 It's time to launch JSX email - Build emails with a truly delightful Developer Experience
What started as a soft fork is now an official project. @pauloe_me, @devjmetivier, and I are HYPED to tell everyone about it.
jsx.email
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If you’re being hired to make something look nice, this is true. It either looks good or it doesn’t—no extra context needed.
If you’re being hired to design (vs decorate) then the extra context is vital.
Here’s how I write interesting case studies:
Tell a good story in 3 parts.
1. Lead with the challenge/opportunity (ex: “we spent 6 months building a new feature but no one was using it”)
2. The meat is how you solved the problem. Was there a critical insight uncovered? Did you make some quick prototypes and user test them? Were there any constraints that added to the drama?
3. Results. What happened? What did you learn? (ex: “the new onboarding increased usage of the feature by 25%”)
Getting good at talking about your work like this is a critical skill for senior design roles.
Nick Stamas retweeted
It's crazy to me that some people in product expect designers to produce amazing and quick results without a brief, clear objective or understanding of the problem.
We 👏 are 👏not 👏wizards👏 or👏 mind 👏 readers.
Midjourney is worth a billion dollars and its UI is a third-party chat service.
Maybe some of those details aren’t worth obsessing over…
One thing they don’t tell you about having kids: remembering to check the toilets for surprises every time guests come over because your 3-year-old refuses to flush
Designers don't make good entrepreneurs because designers are spiritually cool kids and business is inherently uncool.
Design for yourself
vs.
Design for users
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Product managers will always hold more power than designers and engineers because the real line is drawn between the proletariat and managerial classes.