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Wait, do you really want to become a design manager? →
As part of the mentorship sessions I have been running for the past couple years, one question frequently comes up: “What do I have to do to become a design manager?”
The question often comes from designers who have been at a Senior level for some time, now looking to be promoted to a Lead/Manager role in their companies. Instead of prematurely jumping into giving them tactical advice, I throw back another question that can often feel unsettling: “Why?”
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- Iconic Icons → Microsoft on designing new Windows icons.
- On Design Thinking → To a person with a hammer, everything is a nail.
- Delightful Emails → UI that can change how you think about email.
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Stories from the community
Overcoming skill plateaus as a designer →
By Richard Yang
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By Nikki Anderson
Neumorphism: the zombie trend →
By Michal Malewicz
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- What is a mental model and how does it relate to user experience? → By Tania Vieira
- 5 emerging themes from the Interaction 20 conference → By Lily Kollé
- Japan in the eyes of a user experience designer → By Luis
- Change in Google Search is killing it → By Lance Ng
- The gender of the user does not matter. Period. → By Marcus Lyra
- 20 levers for communicating the business impact of Design → By Enrique Allen
News & ideas
- Oldest Companies → A map with the oldest company in every country.
- Lyrics Do Not Exist → Lyrics generated using Artificial Intelligence.
- Unfinished Internet → The side effects of an internet we haven’t built.
- Destructive Design → What we lose by hiring someone to pick up avocados for us.
Tools & resources
- Neumorphic UI Kit → A Figma file with neumorphic UI components.
- CSS Stats → Analytics and visualizations for your stylesheets.
- Behavioral Toolkit → Behavioral sciences combined with design.
- Draft XR → Create VR interfaces in Adobe XD, test in VR.
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