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Resources
Free tools we built for the designers we mentor — the frameworks that come up again and again in Feedback Friday, made interactive. No signup, nothing to install.
Positioning
Find Your Positioning
Answer a few questions about how you work, and get a sharp niche, value proposition, headline, and bio you can use anywhere.
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User research
Research Tactics
Two dozen research methods, mapped by the kind of question each answers — and by how much trust they buy for the effort.
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Metrics
Metrics by Value
Which portfolio results actually move a hiring manager, from awards and output shipped up to behavior change and financial impact.
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Team structures
UX Team Formations
Centralized, decentralized, hybrid — an org diagram for each, with the designer's-eye view of what it's like to work inside one.
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Career framework
Title Elevations Comparison
Ten dimensions of a design career across five levels of growth — a shared vocabulary for what leveling up actually asks of you.
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Roles & titles
The Difference Between UI, UX, and Product
Four altitudes, separated by where your hours go — and what hiring managers look for in a case study at each one.
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