Artiom Dashinsky

Practice your product design and UX skills. Prepare for your next job interview. Redesign the NYC metrocard system. Design a dashboard for a general practitioner. Redesign an ATM. Learn how to solve and present exercises like these, that top startups use to interview designers for product design and UI/UX roles. Today top companies are looking for business-minded designers who are not just focused on visuals. With this book you can practice this kind of mindset, prepare for job interview, learn how to interview other designers and find concepts for projects for your portfolio. What will you learn from this book: Prepare for the design interview -- prepare for the design exercise and learn more about how tech companies hire product designers. Improve your portfolio -- use product challenges to showcase in your porfolio instead of unsolicited visual redesigns. Step up your design career -- practice your product design skills to become a better designer and prepare for your next career move. Interview designers -- learn how to interview designers to evaluate their skills in the most efficient and scalable way. What's inside? A 7-step framework for solving product design exercises 30+ examples of exercises similar to exercises used by Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. 5 full solutions for product design exercises 5 short interviews with design leaders that worked at Apple, Google, Pinterest, IDEO etc.

Questions and Answers

Solving Product Design Exercises

Master the 12 skills by which top companies evaluate UX designers
Knowing every Figma trick doesn’t get you promoted. Learn 12 skills that do, like presenting, mentoring, giving feedback, and improving processes.

An industry-backed approach to growth
Based on how more than 50 companies evaluate designers and employees, including Etsy, Medium, Dropbox, Square, Figma, Zendesk, Intercom, and Coursera.


This book will help you:
- Set career goals within six design career paths
- Learn which skills top companies require designers to have at each level
- Build an actionable growth plan to reach your next level
- Improve 12 crucial design skills with actionable frameworks
- Put the above into practice at work to get promoted faster

Get answers to these questions:
- What career options do I have as a designer?
- What career path is right for me?
- What are the steps to reach my career goal?
- How do companies evaluate designers?
- What are my skill levels?
- What competencies should I be working on?
- How do I get a promotion?
- How do I practically improve my skills like mentoring, giving feedback, presenting design, and improving processes, etc?

What’s inside
- More than 60 concrete action items on growing your career
- Six templates and canvases for career planning
- Printable PDF canvas for your growth plan
- 14 recommendations for additional resources

The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career

Find ideas for your new next business, side hustle, or indie startup. FROM THE AMAZON BEST-SELLING AUTHOR Today every skill for building a product can be learnt online -- coding, design, marketing -- besides one: generating new product ideas. With this book, you will learn 17 actionable techniques for finding ideas to start your next profitable SaaS, physical, digital, services or content business. "The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas..." -- Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize laureate What will you learn from this book? Find ideas -- Discover actionable techniques to immediately find problems to build businesses around. Notice opportunities -- Learn the mental models that will help you to start noticing problems in the future and convert them into products later. Find niche markets -- Learn how to define the audiences that you'd enjoy serving and explore opportunities in their niches. Prioritize ideas -- Sort ideas with the biggest potential impact to fit your business and personal goals. What's inside? 17 actionable techniques for finding business problems through scientific research, web search analysis, market trends, your own experience, open data sets, unrelated industries, business model patterns, etc. 60+ examples of product ideas 6 printable PDF canvases for practicing the techniques No upsale, no fluff This book will benefit indie hackers building a bootstrapped business from home, entrepreneurs starting a lifestyle business, full-time employees exploring a side hustle, freelancers diversifying their income, or students looking for ideas for their school projects.

Actionable Techniques for Finding New Business Ideas

Generating Product Ideas

The Path to Senior Product Designer

The best designers are effective outside of Figma.
Learn how to achieve more as a designer with 27 actionable lessons on communication, persuasion, influence, decision-making, productivity, and more.

This book will help you:
Boost impact — Discover strategies that top designers use to influence others, sell their ideas, and generate more value.
Build a better career — Learn which companies to join to maximize wealth and to create positive change.
Attract more opportunities — Build relationships and a personal brand to maximize your career development.
Learn better and faster — Acquire the right knowledge faster by knowing what and from whom to learn next.

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