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info diet for designers

Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #178Read time: 1m 27s When I started my design career, I was obsessed. I was the kid with 27 browser tabs open, all UX blogs. Atomic Design book on standby. Design Details podcast on repeat. Design Sprint playlist queued up. I thought I was being productive. I was actually being an idiot. Then I finally realized something: The designers making an impact weren't just design nerds. They were business-savvy creative psychologists who could...

UX Portfolio Homepage

Newsletter issue: #177 Read time: 53s Play of the Week newsletter by Chris A big thank you to Edios Design, our sponsor, who keeps this newsletter free to the reader: DESIGN + AI NEWSLETTER Rethinking Design in the Age of AI Join a growing community of designers exploring how AI is reshaping creativity, collaboration, and the meaning of design itself. Insightful, human, and beautifully crafted. Join Eidos Design on Substack Your UX portfolio homepage is your digital first impression. You've...

Personal Branding

Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #176Read time: 1m 49s In 2022, I rejected my second Head of Product Design job offer. More on that story here They offered $150,000, after tax. I still said no. Was I high? Nope.On drugs? Negative.Just stupid? Possibly. But here's the twist: it was the best damn decision I've ever made. You see, most people approach their design career like this: “Let me build a decent portfolio → get a good job → climb the ladder → repeat until death.”...

How to Take Feedback

Play of the Week newsletter by Chris Newsletter issue: #175Read time: 1m 56s PERSONALIZED VIDEO Get Your Portfolio Roasted A 30-minute, private video, packed with personalised, easy-to-implement advice that will improve your portfolio. Get feedback ASAP Ever watched a designer melt down during a critique session? That was me in 2016, sweating through my t-shirt while stakeholders dismantled my unified navigation design (in hindsight, it absolutely made no sense). I thought I was Steve Jobs....

UX Leaders Make Bad Calls Too

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...

Present NDA Design Work

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...

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....

Smart Career Pivot

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...

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...

Promoted as a UX Designer

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....