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A weekly newsletter exploring design’s interplay with product, business, and technology, and answering your questions about freelancing, career, and personal growth.

In addition to being an amazing Product Designer, Alex has a rare ability to intersect the design’s interplay with product, business and technology. His blog provides universal advice helpful to grow a business, advance a career (applicable even if you are not a designer), and amplify positive impact and leadership.

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Things I wish designers would ask me during interviews

132: The best way to answer the "Do you have any questions for me?" question.

Things I wish designers would ask me during interviews
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How to work with designers (a PMs guide)

Product designers spend a lot of time working closely with product managers. Both roles are highly critical parts of the product development process. Yet many PMs need help understanding designers and efficiently working with them.

How to work with designers (a PMs guide)
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Introducing Freelance Playbook

At the beginning of my freelancing career, I took any projects I could get – from simple logos to building fully-fledged websites. I worked 80 hours a week, mostly without weekends, to please my clients and deliver the best possible results.

Introducing Freelance Playbook

Alex's blog and advices helped me to get my first job in UX field, and now helping to switch my understanding of all design field too. I'm pretty sure i will get more insights from Alex that will turn everything upside down, and I really appreciate that.

The insight Alex provided into the design industry - detailed steps on how to enter the field, how to present my work in a portfolio, a list of resources - was extremely valuable and helped me broaden my knowledge of digital design.

Michelle Terng

Designer

Alex is such a great mentor! I like how he challenged me when it came to improving my designs. He's always there to help and very knowledgeable of the industry, which allowed me to get a lot of insider info on what I was getting myself into.

Budoor Almulla

UX Designer

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Create slowly, Taste, Good design is intentional

151: Embracing the process to figure out the most elegant and sustainable solution, Examining taste more objectively, Why intention matters.

Create slowly, Taste, Good design is intentional
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How behavioral science can boost your designs

150: People do not always behave logically. We say one thing and then do something else. We even go against our instincts.

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Bad design managers, Write like you design, The future of design systems

149: The damage of bad design managers, Derivation of Dieter Rams’s principles to illustrate how writing is often the same as design, Unlocking design theming and logic with Figma Variables.

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Types of clients to avoid

148: Be aware of the types of potential clients and learn how to avoid working with them.

Types of clients to avoid
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How to sell design, No handoff, Unlocking creativity within design system constraints

147: Using storytelling to sell designs, How be a designer that developers love to work with, Design system as a set of constraints that guide the behavior and look&feel of the product.