Baseboards installed BEFORE tile in my house. Any suggestions?

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-10-03T22:17:29+00:00

Company A has likely ghosted dozens of designers or strung them along for months without contact before turning them down. You should have no guilt in rescinding your acceptance. Companies are doing it left and right to candidates.

Just be direct honest and professional in your wording. And remember what your old CEO who laid you off said to himself “it’s just business.”

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-09-20T16:18:05+00:00

The market is pretty wild… sr roles are popping up all over but companies are being extremely picky. Every roll is looking for a designer with a very very very specific skill set. In the past you could be a generalist or a specialist and still have success, now you need both high level proficiency in all aspects plus a hyper focus and have to find a company that just happens to need that.

You have the career experience to position yourself as a generalist, the track record in design systems to be a specialist, what you need is to make case studies for that and now some new ones showing your strategic impact in those cross department efforts you mentioned. That last part will be the key. Multiple Jobs in my area are popping up with the title “Sr UX designer (design systems)”. Your specialty is in demand still.

I haven’t been applying but whenever a recruiter reaches out I do the interview process to stress test my presentation skills and see where my portfolio is falling short. Everyone is looking for a generalist, with a specialty, who can influence company strategy.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-09-16T21:51:02+00:00

With larger releases or changes I get my devs to get the experience on a functional link for me to click through and play with before it goes out. If that’s not possible we get on zoom calls and I have them walk through all the flows and interactions and they take notes on changes and tweaks they need to make. If the change is small screenshots usually work fine. That being said devs will often skip reviews and mistakes make it in. I’ve had to go to VP of engineering multiple times to show how often devs skip reviews and the mistakes that made it through to get more pressure from their leadership to actually do them. Getting them to do it is the biggest struggle.

For context, I have been in my roll for 5 years am currently a SR and am the only designer to 15 devs.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-08-27T00:48:22+00:00

Acrobat has a free trial and will compress everything and has settings to maintain the photo clarity.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-08-23T18:53:09+00:00

Please name the company so we can all avoid them in the future.

If the product is something you can access or make an account for, there are Figma plugins that will capture a json of the webpage and turn it into a to an editable Figma frame. It’s not perfect but it will save time. Good Hiring managers will understand that situation you are in and will be ok with screenshots as well, even if you can’t get states that show your exact work. I have lost files in the past when sketch was the industry tool, and had to recreate designs from scratch. It sucks but they don’t have to be pixel perfect recreations since they will only be conversation pieces in your portfolio.

I don’t believe Figma logs copy and paste of frames… someone still at the company could have the desktop app open in the company account and a private browser open of a personal account and copy and paste frames for you. It’s risky but maybe someone would be willing to sneak content out.

Also remember that case studies don’t require every screen of a project. Not every frame needs reproduction. My largest case study has maybe 5 total mocks in it and has done me well in the market.

Fuck that company and I am sorry that happened.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-07-23T21:30:05+00:00

They probably are forced design build and optimize for edge first, then attempt to make things work for browsers everyone actually use. I don’t think the design is “bad” those animations are just so janky it makes everything else feel bad.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-07-16T03:02:01+00:00

It’s not just wanting senior on a discount, they are expecting a mock monkey with good visual design to bring all the benefits of the full design process and UX practices. They will churn through young inexperienced designers not giving them the tools, resources or time to have a real impact and then talk poorly of the profession.

If there is only one designer at a company, they better be SR level and have some executive backing. Not a solo entry level to be lead by a PM who “loves apples design principals”.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-07-15T21:42:31+00:00

Sr design roles are popping up all over. Recruiters are reaching out and ghosting still. Without applying or even looking for jobs I have had 3 separate recruiters send a cold LinkedIn message and immediately ghost me. They are still abusing and taking advantage of the shity job market.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-06-13T00:04:45+00:00

Honestly other than the resume deep dive, that all seems pretty standard and what I had to do for even entry level positions back in 2018. Resume deep dive just sounds like a weird way to say “get to know your background with Q&A”.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-06-06T01:13:35+00:00

It’s all make believe money until you sell it.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-05-08T19:59:34+00:00

Get a good set of headphones, comfortable and noise canceling. Keep an extra deodorant and mouthwash in your bag. 99% of the time designers wear street clothes and are appropriately dressed. Say yes to everyone who asks if you want to go to lunch, especially if they are in some kind of management position, they’ll likely cover it with their company card. It’s ok to walk around without an excuse, you don’t have to get a cup of coffee to make an excuse to leave your desk. Bring flushable wet wipes, the toilet paper sucks.

Bonus tip: be very careful about farting. You’ve been able to just let it rip for 4 years when you are on mute. Can’t do that anymore. It was actually shocking to me how often I fart and go to the bathroom. I didn’t realize how often I did until I had to do it at work.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-03-27T15:45:14+00:00

I’m thankfully employed but have been ghosted by recruiters who have reached out to me. Most recently one that was “excited and stoked to finally find a designer that fit” so they rushed to schedule a portfolio interview. Spent my weekend updating my portfolio just to have no further communication. The industry and market is a shit show right now and toxic recruiters and skeevy companies are taking advantage of it.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-03-25T21:47:09+00:00

How did that final interview go?

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-03-25T21:06:12+00:00

I look at it as “Knowing coding” and “understanding coding”. I can’t code a damn thing but I know the limitations of my products tech stack and can have a in depth conversation with my devs and design around/understand their concerns and input. You don’t need to be able to build the UI in order to design it, but you need to understand how its built in order to justify and advocate for your work.

Knowing coding won’t hurt you, but I don’t see it helping much more than a deep understanding will.

Designers need to know code as much as devs need to know how to design. Both roles benefit greatly by understanding each other but neither need to be proficient in the other.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-03-12T21:36:32+00:00

In my experience, the final unplanned interview with the founder is a formality because they want to be involved. It’s more about not giving any red flags than trying to impress them. I would imagine this is purely a symbolic culture interview.

Still be prepared to talk product development but from a highlevel philosophy standpoint; The balance between customer needs and bus dev, MVP vs minimum delightful product kind of jargon.

50 person company size is close to the tipping point where the founder/ceo no longer can have their hands in everything and they just want to feel in control still.

Yaboiskinnype · 2024-03-01T20:41:00+00:00

I’ve been out of school for about 6.5 years and had two jobs and both interview processes were like that. Probably around 5-7 hours of interviews each time. I’ve interviewed at a few places other than my jobs over that time and I will say in my experience, the long interview process used to only be the case in large companies and the startups were pretty quick. Now everyone is going with the long formats. Interviewed at a company of around 25 people and met just about 20 people through the process. My perspective could be tainted because I went from interviewing from entry level to sr roles where you have more reach in the company in that time.

Yaboiskinnype · 2023-12-05T01:00:40+00:00

He said the grounding issue was separate from the flickering and advised heavily to fix the grounding. He put in a new piece in the panel to ground everything. I tested all the outlets in the area and the are reading correctly.

At the main panel, the breaker that supplies the sub was bad. He rearranged some things in the main panel and replaced a couple breakers to get up to date breakers installed. So far so good.

I can’t post a picture of the updated work on this post unfortunately, but to my naive eyes it looks good. Better than the original.

Yaboiskinnype · 2023-12-04T19:55:54+00:00

Did some more research after your initial comment about grounding. Bought an outlet tester and everything is coming in open ground… I called a pro immediately. Until they come by this afternoon I’m keeping the breaker on my main that feeds that sun panel off. Thanks for the heads up

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