Coming in
Q4 2024
This book finally demystifies the transition from designer to design manager, based on interviews, companies' policies, and an analysis of hundreds of managers' career paths.
Learn if being a manager is right for you, and build a step-by-step plan to becoming one.
Understand the role — Learn what skills companies require design managers to have and what their day-to-day looks like.
Decide if it's for you — Management might not be for you, and that's okay. Find that out as early as possible to focus on your IC career.
Build a plan — Create an actionable plan for becoming a manager based on how others have done it successfully.
Take action — Improve the lacking skills required for management and align the organization for you to get promoted.
I'm a product designer based in Berlin. For the past 14 years I led design at multiple startups, owned a small agency and worked as a freelancer and consultant.
In the last five years I’m building my own products and published three books including the Amazon-best seller “Solving Product Design Exercises”.
The products I built for the design community are used by tens of thousands of designers working at companies like Google, Meta, Airbnb, Netflix and Boeing.
The Path to Senior Product Designer
Knowing every Figma trick doesn’t get you promoted.
Learn 12 skills that do, like mentoring, giving feedback, presenting design, and improving processes.
The book is based on how more than 50 companies evaluate designers and employees, including Etsy, Medium, Dropbox, Square, Figma, Zendesk, Intercom, and Coursera.
Is management for me?
What career opportunities does management offer for designers?
Can I go back to being an IC after becoming a manager?
What skills companies expect managers to have?
What does a manager's day and week look like?
How do designers become managers?
What skills should I improve to be ready to be a manager?
What should I do to get promoted to a manager?