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Design Life — 325 episodes · page 2 of 4
225: Finding your why
224: Crafting effective case studies
223: Why focusing on your portfolio will pay off
222: Taking initiative at work
221: Building design team culture
220: The relationship between design and product
219: Daily themes to get more work done
218: Become a manager or stay an IC?
217: Why you should share your work
216: Taking ownership of your career growth
215: Running a hack day
214: Our daily routines
213: Balancing work and side projects
212: Inside the design hiring process
211: Ageism in the tech industry
210: Our plans for 2021
209: Reflecting on our careers & side hustles in 2020
208: Should you use a Notion doc as your portfolio?
207: Outsourcing work and hiring help for side projects
206: How to have productive meetings
205: How designers could use Facebook ads to get clients
204: Speeding up the design process
203: Running a design-focused Instagram
202: Charli gets a promotion!
201: Being the only designer on the team
200: Does using design freebies make you less of a designer?
199: How direct is TOO direct with feedback?
198: Making friends at work
197: Should you go to design school?
196: Should you have to work nights and weekends to succeed in tech?
195: Working with freelancers
194: The future of AI/ML in design
193: Too many meetings
192: How to reach out for advice
191: Attaching self worth to your work
190: Creating design processes and workflows
189: Why are there so few women in design leadership?
188: Creating and launching a digital product
187: Launching a big project
186: Design QA Process
185: Facilitating workshops with Jonathan Courtney (AJ&Smart)
184: Making design decisions
183: Design reviews and getting feedback
182: Starting a new side project
181: Getting through a motivation slump
180: Working from home during COVID-19
179: How to build your network
178: Performance reviews
177: Keeping your portfolio up to date
176: Tackling implementation issues between design and development
175: The other side of design (it's more than pushing pixels)
174: How to start and grow a design Youtube Channel
173: Setting Goals and Intentions in 2020
172: Fulfilling your potential
171: Learnings from Adobe Max
170: Jumping from junior to senior designer
169: Within Design Retreat
168: When your ideas aren't considered
167: Career progression
166: Having difficult conversations
165: Staying creative during life changes
164: How to get your first design job
163: Earning passive income
162: CEO and designer, Helen Tran
161: The project kickoff
160: Every creative feels broken inside
159: Is your portfolio a lie?
158: Job titles, are they important?
157: Project retrospectives
156: Creating effective design documentation
155: Done is better than perfect
154: Goal Setting and OKR's
153: Creating Design Principles
152: Navigating office politics
151: Running Design Sprints
150: Working with design systems
149: Weekly Planning
148: Getting the best start at a new job
147: Goals for 2019
146: Design Challenges, is it spec work?
145: Investing in conferences
144: What to look for in a manager
143: 3 Things we recommend right now
142: Iteration
141: Confront Conference with Zach Grosser
140: How to switch careers
139: Working with stakeholders
138: Salaries and bonuses
137: Personal brand design
136: Sharing unfinished work
135: Productivity in the workplace
134: Why we stopped freelancing
133: Becoming a hybrid
132: User Testing in the design process
131: Should you fake it till you make it?
130: How A/B testing can improve your design
129: When do you know it’s time to move on?
128: Making time for new side projects
127: User research in the design process
126: The rollercoaster of the creative process