Many designers become managers because it's the only career track available. They may end up hating managing people and missing out on designing.
This book helps you progress in your career without switching to management.
Understand the role — Learn what skills companies require staff designers to have and what their day-to-day looks like.
Find the gaps — Identify the skills you need to improve to be promoted to a staff designer.
Build a plan — Create an actionable plan for becoming a staff designer based on the successful experiences of others.
Improve the skills — Build the necessary skills for staff roles and 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.
Leading and influencing people without having formal authority.
Leading end-to-end large-scale design projects.
Guiding and developing junior designers and peers.
Working effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and marketing.
Prioritizing tasks and managing time efficiently not just for yourself but for a project with multiple stakeholders.
Strategies for progressing to staff level.
Identifying the skills you should improve to progress to a staff designer.
Planning your staff level promotion.