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Job Preparation & Interview Process

Commonly Asked UX Interview Questions + Answers by Designer Hire
20 Questions UX Designers Should Prep Before a Job Interview by Jan Haaland
App critique framework for product design interviews by Nishant Panchal
Design Resources (for Job Interview Preparation) by Tolu Olubode
Career Guidance by Designer Fund
Here’s why you are not getting hired as a product designer by Soren Iverson
Hiring a product designer: how to review portfolios by Chad Thornton, GV (perspective from the other side)
How to evaluate a designer with a design exercise by Braden Kowitz, GV (perspective from the other side)
How to Get a Job at X presented by Semplice
How to nail a design job interview by Uday Gajendar, InVision
Sharpen by Arman & Anthony (design challenge generator)
Solving Product Design Exercises by Artiom Dashinsky
Spotify’s Design Interview Process by Adrian Buendia
The First Steps to Landing Your First Job by Andre Sebastian Tacuyan
The user journey of landing on a product design job by Diancheng Hu
What to expect from PMs by Julie Zhou

Design Mentorship

How to find your design mentor by Nathalie Crosbie
Amazing Design People List
Designed
Sherpa
Hexagon - mentorship for womxn and non-binary folks

Design Communities

List of Designer Slack communities to join
BlacksWho.Design
DesignX
Designers Guild
Fluxible
Top UX Communities & Groups compiled by Oz Chen
Hexagon - womxn and non-binary folx
Ladies that UX
LatinxsWho.Design
People of Craft
Startup Weekend
UXPA
WomenWho.Design
Where Are the Black Designers?

Getting Started, Process and Skills

20 levers for communicating the business impact of Design by Enrique Allen
Business Thinking for Designers by Ryan Rumsey
FAQ: Tips and Tools for Getting Started in User Experience Design by Fiona Yeung
Getting Started with Design Thinking by d.school
How we design at Intercom by Paul Adams, Intercom
Storytelling for Designers by Julian Hector
The Design Sprint by Google Ventures (GV)
The Ultimate Guide to a Product Design Career by Kindra Cooper
Usability Testing 101 by Kate Moran
UX Portfolio outline checklist

Job Boards

Amazing Design People List by Felix Lee and James Baduor
Cofolios by Hasque May
CreativeGuild by Creative Mornings
Designer News
Dribbble Job Board
Interns.design compiled by Tae Kyung Kong

Portfolio Examples

Examples of great writing:

Examples of unique aesthetics:

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Career Growth

Guideline to Job Titles by Tara York
How to get hired as a senior product designer in tech by Maria Matveeva
Playbook by Jared Erondu
Moving into design leadership: 4 ways to create visibility for your work by Angel Steger
The Four Archetypes of the Complete Design Leader summarized by Joy Kong
The Importance of Self-Care for Designers by Vivianne Castillo
The Inclusion & Diversity Compendium for Designers curated by Marissa Louie
The recipe for developing your career as a product designer by Paul Murphy

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Challenges and interactive activities to practice with

Accessibility Resources

Designing accessible forms - UXcellence
UX Accessibility for Elderly - 12 Principles by Szymon Trzepla
A Cautionary Tale story by Daniel Pidcock
Considering Accessibility when designing a usability test - Deque
“Inclusive Design for a Digital World - Designing with Accessibility in Mind” book by Regine Gilbert

Learning Resources

6 Principles for Inclusive Design by Lillian Xiao
Booklets
Design for Business Impact by Designer Fund
Design Method Toolkit by Digital Society School
Digital Psychology by Daniel Stefanovic
Interaction Design Resources compiled by Philippe Jean
Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski
Monster List of UX Books compiled by Chris Oliver
Nielsen Norman Group
Product Disrupt by Darshan Gajara
Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger
UX Library founded by Zoshua Colah

Blogs

Adobe 99u (general creatives, not just tech)
d.school
Design Checklist
Design Better by InVision
Growth Design by Dan Benoni and Louis-Xavier Lavallee
GV Library
Inside Design by InVision
Inside Intercom
The Design Team (fun perspective on design in tech)
UX Collective

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Podcasts

Design Leaders You Can Follow

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Alex Schleifer (Chief Design Officer at Airbnb)
Andréa Crofts (Director of Design at League)
Chetana Deorah (Design Director at Coursera)
Dantley Davis (VP of Design at Twitter)
David Hoang (Director of Design at Webflow)
David Lee (Chief Creative Officer at Squarespace)
Emily Rawitsch (Director of Product Design at Spotify)
Fabricio Teixeira (Founder of UX Collective)
Fiona Yeung (CEO of Hexagon)
Frank Yoo (Director of Design at Google)
Gene Lee (Senior Vice President of CX and Design at Mailchimp)
Harrison Wheeler (UX Lead at LinkedIn)
Helen Tran (CEO of Jupiter)
Huda Idrees (Founder of Dot Health, Formerly Wealthsimple)
Jasmine Friedl (Director of Design at Intercom)
John Maeda (Head of Computational Design & Inclusion at Automattic)
Julie Zhou (Co-founder of Inspirit, Formly Facebook)
Katie Dill (VP of Design at Lyft)
Kristy Tillman (Head of Global Experience Design at Slack)
Marissa Louie (Design Director at Expedia)
Michael Sacca (VP of Product at Dribbble)
Noah Levin (Design Director at Figma)
Shiera Aryev (Design Director at MetaLab)
Pablo Stanley (Founder of Blush)
Preet Singh (Founder of DesignX)
Ryo Lu (Director of Design at Notion)
Verne Ho (Director of UX at Shopify)
Vivianne Castillo (Sr Design Researcher at Salesforce)