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From Intern to Senior. Part 2: Design process, project scope, tooling, and 1-on-1 meetings at different career stages
#59: What career ladders won’t tell you about differences between various career levels.
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Arkadiusz Radek
From Intern to Senior. Part 1: Strategic thinking, engagements, and definition of design at different career stages
#57: What career ladders won’t tell you about differences between various career levels.
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Arkadiusz Radek
Great designers. How curiosity leads to understanding products better
#47: Jumping from good to great and staying relevant in the blurry future
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Arkadiusz Radek
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Achieving the Right Balance in Your Case Study
#36: Calculating the right proportion of content in a case study.
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Arkadiusz Radek
How to Avoid Burnout as a Designer
#33: As Blue Monday* is just around the corner, please read this.
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Mateusz Litarowicz
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If I Were a Junior Product Designer Again
Then I'd carefully read and implement these five tips into my career in 2025!
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Arkadiusz Radek
Not so usual design book recommendations
And why you should include these titles in your letter to Santa this year
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Arkadiusz Radek
Gaining Experience as a Junior Product Designer
What do you show in your portfolio if you have zero experience? Is there some magical place where you can get your hands dirty? What do you do if you…
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Arkadiusz Radek
Preparing for a job interview
The most common questions you may hear during an interview for a UX and Product Design role (and how to answer them).
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Arkadiusz Radek
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Mateusz Litarowicz
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The Future of the Job Market in UX and Product Design
More than half a million tech employees have been laid off since 2022. According to the latest data available at the time of writing this article, the…
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Arkadiusz Radek
Seven Deadly Sins of Product Design
We all are sinners. It’s common for every human to repeat mistakes without admitting it. We keep sinning because it’s easy. We keep making mistakes…
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Arkadiusz Radek
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10 Learnings From My 10 Years in Tech as a Product Designer
January 2014. A cold winter in Kielce, my hometown in the south of Poland. It’s the fourth semester of my CS master’s, and I’m about to start my first…
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Arkadiusz Radek
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