Design hiring, AI tool that creates UI, how figma builds product

6th Edition

Hello to 202 people reading this newsletter, appreciate your attention. Hope you find value here :)

I recently noticed a clear inefficiency in something that seemed fairly obvious to me, also validated by a poll I did on Twitter.

It's design hiring, both ends are messed up. Neither the employer (especially those hiring their 1st product designer) have an idea about 'what to' look for (seems evident from the JD) when hiring a product designer nor the candidate knows the tactics, right practices, and how to find the right match. I might be doing a small experiment in the design hiring with my friend, Paras. Lookout 🙌🏼

P.S. - If you are hiring or looking for a design gig, let me know below. I would love to help you.

I have good news, one of my mentees at Designlab got a job offer for a product design role at Starbucks! I love teaching and how satisfying it is.

One more learning, I feel I have learned more about digital product design by working closely with developers than just hanging out with fellow designers. When you see the tech constraints and adapt the design accordingly yet maintain the UX, it's challenging but worth it. Perhaps will write more about this.

Let's go to curated tweets, reads, and AI tool of the week now 👇🏽

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Tweets

Stop blocking every minute in your calendar and embraces your intrinsic motivation.

The future of work is part-time gigs. 5hrs/week for $10k, an email that worked.

What did you get done this week?

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🤖 AI tool of the week

🤖 It's official, AI has almost replaced designers!

Not quite 😅, but it looks like it could help make us a lot faster in UI ⚡️

Just tell Galileo AI what you want and it will generate a UI design that works in Figma 🤯

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🤔 Reflect

What has been the best hour of my week? How can I make it easier to have more hours like that?

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📖 Read

1 // Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
These are super helpful rules you can follow if you are a product designer or even if you are a product manager it’s still helpful.
➡️Apply these in your work

2// How Figma builds product
Figma has one of the best product teams in the world! Lenny Rachitskywalks through the process and framework figma uses internally, you can also find the templates below
➡️ Learn product management from Figma CPO

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Have a great weekend,

Shivam