Career Advice

Building a shared understanding of complex issues is key to doing work in the social impact space.

Here’s my experience of working in the design system team, and the reasons why I strongly recommend every designer to do that at least…

Yesterday, I had a conversation with a PM about my design process. I mentioned that I typically present three options to stakeholders:

To tell apart a junior and a senior designer, watch how they approach problems.

Three years already?! Time goes faster than you can imagine, I still remember myself texting a colleague and saying, ''I wish I could buy…

The real reason for the death of motivation in the workplace

Are you stuck in another career, want to get into UX design but don’t want to start at ground 0 all over again?

Businesses often don’t care as much about what you did but what it resulted in

While UX may be perceived to be dying, I believe the field is entering a golden age, especially in the age of AI. This is an opportunity.

My past UX career decisions and the lessons I learned

A Content Designer from Microsoft Clipchamp tells her story

There are very few correlations between a person’s intelligence and their effectiveness. Working on the right things is crucial for…

Personal reflections as I wrap up

Doubling down on hiring practices that don’t work usually still doesn’t work

A Content Designer from Microsoft Clipchamp tells her story

“I will never take an in-office job again”, words I and most of my team live by now that we’ve gotten to work on a team that gets how to…

Learn, navigate and thrive in the design spectrum

Some say the “Open To Work” banner is bad bad bad. Don’t use it! Critical thinking for the most common reasons against the banner.

I’m talking about the kind of mistakes that cost me time, money, and even a few jobs.

I recently completed five years as a UX designer in the industry  -  navigating the fintech world, working on diverse products, helping…

Discover how to set yourself apart from others by strengthening your problem-solving skills and developing an unbiased mindset. This all…

Understand why you’re still better than AI

In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers. In Part 2, Andrii speaks about how you can grow faster in your brand-new junior UX job.

The quest for workplace clarity.

Discover how working in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments can shape you into a versatile, business-savvy designer

In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers. Learn why mastering design tools is crucial, how to build a strong portfolio, and tips for acing your first interviews.

How to Influence without Authority, the Soft Skills that Will Advance Your Career

In any profession, it's important to have a good set of soft skills in addition to your job-specific abilities. A few of these have stood…

Things that have actually mattered in my UX career

To anyone who has worked in their chosen career for at least a few years, it should be clear by now that what you learn in university is…