90% Off Design Mentoring During Ramadan! Hi Reader, Ramadan Mubarak! During Ramadan, I'm offering a 90% discount on all my mentoring services, and will donate proceeds to charity. This is to help as many people as possible during this important month. Use the discount code "Ramadan90" to sign up. Sign up soon as slots are filling up quickly. I will also be doing some livestreams on my YouTube channel conducting portfolio reviews and doing a LIVE Q&A, be sure to turn your notification bells on...
over 3 years ago • 1 min read
A Few Things You Need To Know About Generative AI Hey Reader, Generative AI is an unsupervised learning method that enables an AI model to create new content from vast amounts of training data. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google have introduced powerful viral tools that have opened the floodgates to a new way of working and a whole new set of tools. These are being integrated into workflows today with great success. Here's an overview of a few significant AI events: In December 2022, OpenAI...
over 3 years ago • 5 min read
It’s common to think our strengths as a person are things that we’re naturally excellent at and weaknesses are things that you are not great at. However, it’s time to reframe this thinking. Strengths are activities that you enjoy and make you feel strong. You might not be a good at an activity right now, but love doing it. This doesn’t make it your weakness. Strengths are things that we really enjoy doing, we do them as we find them fun, we get fulfilment at this activity, we might find it...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
When interviewing for product design jobs, one of the key areas they rate you on is your product thinking. Your ability to find and solve problems and how to build successful products. A skill overlooked? When speaking to recruiters at the big tech companies, this is a skill that can be overlooked by designers. Something that surprised me quite a bit. A lot of people can be strong on visual and interaction design. But Problem-solving is such an important part of product design, this skill...
about 5 years ago • 1 min read
First, I'd like to say a massive thank you! We’ve just reached over 100 subscribers on the newsletter 🎉 This is so amazing to think. My goal has always been to be able to help at least one person out, to think there’s 100+ people reading the newsletter is crazy ✨ Loyalty as a designer As you grow in your career and you stay longer at one company, you expect to get promotions, being able to challenge yourself and being rewarded. However, I feel like this has changed a lot over the years. More...
about 5 years ago • 1 min read
First, I'd like to say a massive thank you! We’ve just reached over 100 subscribers on the newsletter 🎉 This is so amazing to think. My goal has always been to be able to help at least one person out, to think there’s 100+ people reading the newsletter is crazy ✨ Loyalty as a designer As you grow in your career and you stay longer at one company, you expect to get promotions, being able to challenge yourself and being rewarded. However, I feel like this has changed a lot over the years. More...
about 5 years ago • 1 min read
Have you ever thought about who, or what, disappears if your product is successful? Who loses their job? What industries or policies would be affected? What about, what would using your product “too much” look like? When it comes to design, everyone is so focused on reaching metrics and the direct impact you make. You can usually be focused on one metric you want to achieve or reach such as increasing daily active users, average session duration expanding to different markets. The reality is,...
about 5 years ago • 1 min read
Have you ever thought about who, or what, disappears if your product is successful? Who loses their job? What industries or policies would be affected? What about, what would using your product “too much” look like? When it comes to design, everyone is so focused on reaching metrics and the direct impact you make. You can usually be focused on one metric you want to achieve or reach such as increasing daily active users, average session duration expanding to different markets. The reality is,...
over 5 years ago • 1 min read
Writing is something i’ve always put off as it doesn’t come natural to myself. The reality is the best way to get better at writing is by practising. So let’s do this. After meddling in Figma for months i’ve finally put together a few template i’ll be using. I’ve made the templates and code open source so you can grab them too.The last month i’ve been off social media and focusing my attention on Ramadan and taking a break. When you watch videos about growing audiences on social media they...
over 5 years ago • 1 min read