A designer I coached late last year messaged me one morning.10+ years of experience. Shipped products at good companies. Strong foundation. Before we worked together he was doing what most experienced designers do. Applying online. Going through recr...

The most high-visibility project of my corporate career was a tool called Meeting Mojo.I led the design at DBS Bank. The bet was reducing the time the bank was spending in meetings. 25,000+ employees, many stacking back-to-back meetings, most of them...

A designer I work with told me something last week that I have heard more times than I can count."I know my work had impact. I just cannot prove it on the page."She has 12 years of experience, shipped real products, worked at two well-known companies...

I did something kind of obsessive last week.I went to Reddit's r/UXDesign community — 110,000 weekly visitors, all working designers — and I searched every thread about promotions, career growth, and feeling stuck.I read 20 threads. Hundreds of comme...

I want to talk about something that I think a lot of experienced designers feel but almost nobody says out loud.Guilt.Not guilt about making mistakes or missing deadlines. A weirder, quieter kind of guilt — the guilt of wanting more when you already...

I've been reading a lot of Reddit threads in r/UXDesign lately.Not for fun. For research. Because I work with experienced designers every day and I wanted to see what they say when nobody's watching — when there's no manager reading, no HR screening,...

I want to talk about something specific.Not the career advice stuff. The actual Tuesday afternoon.You are in back-to-back Figma reviews. You have been the one running design crits since the senior designer on your team went on leave three months ago...

Hey there, Joseph here.So I wrote about this on LinkedIn yesterday. The promotion. The raise. The afternoon someone checks the market and realises the number is wrong.Here is the part I did not include publicly.The designers I work with almost never...

Hey, I've been cleaning up my email list and noticed you haven't opened anything from me in a while.No hard feelings if you're done. but if you're still figuring out your next move, I'm still here.I'll keep sending unless you hit unsubscribe. either...

My manager led every stakeholder presentation. I did most of the work. He did most of the talking. Nobody said it out loud. But the impression stuck. "What did Joseph actually do on this project?" I couldn't answer that in a room...