444: Writing Effective Self-Reviews

This week, we share our tips for writing better self-reviews during performance review season. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Patrons: Samuel Ong Mun Keong Nicole OMalley Lauren Melenudo Per Karlsson Trang Minh Nguyen Gabe de la Mora Lena Lam Radek Berka Dan V Peterson Yurong Zheng Main Topic: This week, we share our tips for writing better self-reviews during performance review season. Guarang Alat asks on GitHub: It's performance review season again! Would love to hear from you two about strategies, frameworks and tips you typically use while writing self-reviews, especially when you are aiming to level up to the next level as a product designer. Beyond using metrics, how can I effectively present the overall impact of my work as an IC? Writing better self reviews Job Board: We're curating the best product design roles from the world's most design-forward companies. 👉 Design Details Job Board ‌Figma — Figma is looking for designers to help shape the future of FigJam. They have a few open roles right now focused on everything from core product and meeting experiences to onboarding, user education, and templates. Universe — Universe is hiring a Product Designer who is obsessed with the delightful possibilities of software and sees UI design as an artistic medium, not just a method of problem solving. Join a new kind of design studio and shape a product that represents a radically better internet. Webflow — Webflow is hiring designers across their various product pillars focused on growth, collaboration, the designer, and site capabilities. This role is remote-first with the option to work in our SF office. Materialize — Materialize is building a reactive database to disrupt batch data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery, and they’re looking for their first full-time, in-house designer to come in and own the product design for Materialize Web UI. Technical and developer tools experience is a huge plus! Cool Things: Brian shared The Bear, a story about a young fine-dining chef who returns to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. It's good, and keep an eye out for episode 7! Marshall shared all the "-dles" Wordle Heardle Framed Posterdle Moviedle Cinenerdle My First Million Interview with Dharmesh Shah Design Details on the Web: 📻 We are @designdetailsfm 🎙 Brian is @brian_lovin 🎙 Marshall is @marshallbock 🙌 Support us on Patreon - your support literally makes this show possible. Thank you ❤️ ❓ Got a question? Ask it on our Listener Questions Hub, and we'll do our best to answer it on the show :) ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Leave us a review on iTunes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Byeee!