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Designer at desk with nearby art artifacts

How to ace portfolio presentations in product design interviews

November 15, 2020

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4 mins

MongoDB's career page featuring our "Meet the Team" blog post

Launching a blog post series to showcase our design team talent

September 13, 2020

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5 mins

Man standing in front of a haze

How Olafur Eliasson uses art to drive conversations on climate change

August 20, 2020

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6 mins

glossier models

How Glossier tapped into customer empathy to build a $1.2 billion brand

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5 mins

What makes strong branding and how does it influence a company’s success?

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4 mins

two models by the beach

What we can learn about color from creative direction in fashion

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4 mins

3D illustration of a user interface

A designer’s guide to successful user testing

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6 mins

James Turrell installation

Illuminating the “Light and Space Movement” through its noted artists

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5 mins

product design interface

What is product design and what do product designers do?

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6 mins

farnsworth house

Why the Bauhaus lives on as the most influential school of art and design

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5 mins

still from the Tigertail movie

An honest review of “Tigertail” from a daughter of Asian immigrants

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6 mins

swiss design posters

Design fundamentals every creative should know

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6 mins

Dieter Rams looking out

Understanding Gary Hustwit’s “Objectified” in 5 minutes

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5 mins

the number one

Reflecting on my first year as a full-time product designer

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6 mins

Team Borderless installation

Traveling in Tokyo as a creative problem solver

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7 mins

What I learned attending Awwwards, Design Matters, and Figma Config ‘20

February 24, 2020

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9 mins

components in a design system

Redesigning components for an existing design system

February 4, 2020

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8 mins

laptop illustration

How I overcame my imposter syndrome as a new designer

December 4, 2019

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8 mins

book cover

Five books I read in 2019 that made me a better designer

October 13, 2019

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6 mins

page out of The Great Discontent

How I left software engineering to become a product designer in a year

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10 mins

design system

Valuable lessons from my internship at Wish

December 17, 2018

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7 mins

BuzzFeed group

What it’s like to intern as a product designer at BuzzFeed

August 15, 2018

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9 mins