AAA Advice needed. I have been working as a freelance product designer, both in house and creative agency side in UK and Berlin. Over ten years of designing for web, digital platforms, interactive dataviz, IoT, ML, AI powered products, brand websites, you name it. I would like to move away from the tech industry, that's becoming a bit too dystopian for my taste, and move into AD, CD or Branding. Any advice on how to fill my skills gap and market myself ? Tx

What is realistic comp and career progression at a PE firm exit?

What’s your top 5 companies in the world you want to or have worked for? Any industry.

If you were to transition from bedside which path would you choose?? Education, Quality management/coordinator, Administration?

To what degree is the US economy isolated from the world's madness? There has to be a breaking point right?

How much are other AGMs getting paid in fine dining?

I’m curious to hear how agencies are structuring their media fees (10%? 15%? 20%!? of spend) Any performance bonus structures? Would love context too. Platforms you’re responsible for? (Fb only? Google & Fb? Emerging platforms?) KPIs? (Awareness/impressions vs. Full funnel d2c) Scope? (Buy and plan vs. Creative AND buying planning). Curious to learn how others’ have evolved their agreements. Thanks in advance for sharing!

Openings in M&A consulting, private equity. Dm for referral!

Guys once u start getting letters for tax pls ping here, not sure if today also tax people will get letters

Are any of the big IPOs this year even worth considering? Lyft hit the market at $82 or something and at $55 right now, even getting to $47 during the China tariff. Pinterest is down 15% premkt

We need to make this bowl more active. Any LA golfers?

How do I effectively utilize my special ed ea?

Countdown... beginning now

24y/o, salary of 65k, contributing 7% to both Roth and Traditional 401k (about 350 each month) any recommendations on whether should keep contribution or alter it? Thanks

Almost 2 years out of AD, and now thinking about going back to the Reserves to get my TSCI and just cause I miss it. Does anyone have insights on fed consultants’ salary with a TSCI?

You know a photography treatment has died when you can find it on shutterstock.

When my parents call I don’t answer and call back 4 hours later. I tell them I’m busy but I’m just hanging out here in FB, playing ps5 or online shopping.

Feeling a deep void in close human connection after letting go a relationship that was lacking a future (I was interested in something more, he was unsure). Can’t stop thinking of reaching out and need strength to just stay with the loneliness and have hope for the better times. Would appreciate support. It’s been 2 weeks but I feel bouts of extreme sadness and desire to have someone to share my life and days with.

Those who moved nyc to nj- assm min change in rent, how much did you save on an avg cause of taxes etc.?

Don't know how to choose BTW Kellogg and Booth. Want to be done at the end of the week

Question! I just moved(transferred) to another team of my company and received new title, graphic & creative services. I was a senior graphic designer at the previous team. What do you think about my new title? I know that title is not a big thing but why I feel like my title is downgraded here… Good thing is my jobs here at my current team are what I really wanted to do. This is amazing. I love my new team and people here! Super healthy working environment! But just curious about the title.

Are most companies paying for you to learn new skills? When acquiring new skills are you mostly self taught? What are your best go to sites for learning animation or video skills? Trying to gauge the norm on expectations for new hires who need to know everything from print, web, video, social and animation. Can you do it all?

I’m looking for examples of accessible / ADA-compliant color palettes. Not a color palette builder tool, but a gallery of compliant color palettes I can use for inspiration. Please share your favorites here. Thanks!

How much should I expect to pay to a contractor for building a fully clickable prototype in figma? The design is multi platform and contains roughly 12 screens.

Start up experience help! How much do you charge for taking on the entire UX of a startup companies’ app design?
Would you take a set amount of money or equity? Any experience here would help!

Anyone currently working at Grubhub? I have an interview coming up and would love to hear other people’s opinions/experiences working on the product design team there. What’s the culture like?

How many different projects would you show in your book? I’m redoing my portfolio and find it so hard to know what should make the cut...

Has anyone built an emergent learning group in your consultancy or company that focuses on reflection, feedback, problems of practice... But amongst designers staffed on different projects/clients? How did you structure it? How did you maintain it?

Can we get a thread going of Senior Product Designer salaries.

I am currently a contractor and make $65/hr.

Someone talk to me about Isobar and/or IA Collaborative. 👍👎❓

Anyone know any decent web developers that can quote for a project?

anyone else hype about the new macbooks 👀

already pre-ordered

with apple silicon, adobe better get indesign running faster than i’ve ever seen it.

Do you have advice on how to interview better with Amazon?

My résumé and portfolio are great, and I’ve been asked to interview with Amazon for 4 different teams now. However, it seems like I’m not making it past the first 1:1 interview. 3 out of 4 have resulted in not the right fit for reasons unknown; they don’t provide any feedback either. I have been invited for a new interview today with another team, and I am hoping 4th time is the charm. Any tips on how to do better next time?

UI designers everywhere: Please stop making “peek-a-boo-only” interfaces.

Hello everyone! I am unable to put the work that I’ve been doing as case studies on a portfolio site, even if password protected. I was thinking about making a slideshow style case study on Figma. Is it better to send it in a PDF format anyway or can a Figma link work?

I’m having a problem with micro management and design by committee starting to rear its ugly head in my company. Product team lead not trusting his design team to make design decisions, making unreasonable demands and putting undue pressure on us. Any advice on how to address this before it becomes a reason to start looking for other work?

How do you count years of experience? Lets say you were a web master for 5 years. Then you transitioned into a proper UX role and did that for 5 years. Is that 10 years of experience or 5?

just got a full time graphic design job. is there any reason why using the work-provided adobe creative cloud account for personal use is a bad idea? like privacy or something? i’m thinking of canceling my personal subscription and saving some money.