Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #174Read time: 1m 59s BUNDLE EXCLUSIVE "I don't know how to grow" Strategize, design, and create your dream UX career, step-by-step. Start growing your career Ever make a decision that made you rethink your entire career? 🙋♂️ Raises hand My career journey has been a rollercoaster. Epic fails and (thankfully) some wins. I quit the best job to chase status, only to fall flat on my face. I once spent 8 months building a product nobody...
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #173Read time: 1m 16s A big thank you to Miro, our sponsor, who keeps this newsletter free to the reader: FREE FOR DESIGNERS 😍 The ONLY design workshop platform you need Miro helps designers organize and run design sprints and workshops on a single, flexible canvas, with facilitation tools like timer, voting, clustering, templates, blueprints, and private mode. Plus, you can now use Miro AI to summarize insights. No more hours spent on...
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #172Read time: 1m 34s ONLY $99 Your all-in-one toolbox for UX design UX resources that will make your eyes water with joy used by 18,000+ designers. Get access to the playbook 10 years ago, the design industry had a collective meltdowns over “UX processes”. Everyone and their mum was preaching about how messy processes needed fixing. UX consultants were selling the UX perfect process. It’s 2025 and I’m calling BS. THERE. IS. NO. PERFECT....
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #171Read time: 1m 13s $150 OFF Land Your Next UX Role with Job Sprint For designers finding a fulfilling, flexible, and financially rewarding UX role in an unpredictable job market. Get a UX job you love! Most people think career pivots are black and white decisions. Quit job → Start new career (all while praying you don't go broke). That's like designing a product without ever talking to users. Absolutely insane. However, it’s more like...
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #170Read time: 1m 10s UNDER $100 Turning first-time UX managers to leaders Manage a happier & healthier design team. Learn culture building, goal setting, and more. Get access to the playbook Joe Gebbia just became America’s first Chief Design Officer. Not for Apple. Not for Google.For the entire U.S. government. The designer who convinced millions of people to sleep in strangers’ beds is now redesigning how you file your taxes. This is...
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #164Read time: 1m 04s BUNDLE EXCLUSIVE "I don't know how to grow" Strategize, design, and create your dream UX career, step-by-step. Start growing your career Your promotion is playing hard-to-get. You've mastered every Figma plugin known to mankind, your colour theory would make Picasso jealous, and you can wireframe in your sleep. Yet somehow, Sarah from product who just started learning Figma last year is now your boss. What. The....
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #169Read time: 1m 06s ONLY $99 Your all-in-one toolbox for UX design UX resources that will make your eyes water with joy used by 18,000+ designers. Get access to the playbook Nobody gives a damn about your designs. [You gasp. I nod knowingly] "But Chris, I spent hours perfecting that drop shadow!" I know you did. And it looks amazing. But… Your stakeholders don't care about your clever interactions. They care about THEMSELVES and their...
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #168Read time: 1m 25s I once spent 14 hours crafting the most beautiful design resume ever made. Interesting layout. Custom illustrations. Timeline that looked like an adventure. You know how many interviews I got? Zero. Zilch. Nada. Here’s how bad it was: My resume circa 2015 Ok, stop laughing. I was the guy at the club wearing the designer outfit, but still couldn't get past the security. That security is called an ATS (Applicant...
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Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #167Read time: 1m 50s A big thank you to UX Pilot, our sponsor, who keeps this newsletter free to the reader: The future of UX design with AI ✈️ Stunning Clickable Prototypes. Built in Seconds. UX Pilot supercharges your design flow. Just drop in a text or image prompt and watch AI create end-to-end user experiences, faster than ever. And yes (!) it plugs right into Figma. Start For Free → Confession: Our design skills are not special...
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