Things worth writing down.
UX design posts, UX consulting guides, interviews, and news – written when there’s something worth saying.
Series B SaaS. Head of Product sends a brief to an outsourced design agency. It's a Notion doc - clean, well-structured, six sections. Project overview. Goals. Target audience. Deliverables. Timeline.
Series B SaaS. Eight-person product team. Two days before the dev sprint starts on a new checkout flow. The designer asks for time to run a UX design test on the prototype. The PM says: "We've sp
Junior designer. First real job at a SaaS startup. Eight months on YouTube, three Udemy courses, the Google UX Certificate. She could build components in Figma without thinking. Auto-layout, design to
Designer. Six weeks of job hunting. 67 applications tracked in a spreadsheet with four columns: Applied, Response, Interview, Offer. The Offer column was empty. The Ghosted column had 41 entries.
Hiring manager at a Series B SaaS company. They post a mid-level UX designer role on LinkedIn. 340 applications in 72 hours.
Three hours. Twelve people. A Miro board with 94 sticky notes, colour-coded by theme, dot-voted into a rough priority order. The facilitator called it a wrap. Everyone said it was productive. The PM t
Product team at a Series A SaaS company. Two-week sprint cycles. CEO wants a new onboarding flow live in three weeks. Designer opens the Double Diamond. Discovery phase alone takes four weeks in the s
Junior UX designer. Bootcamp graduate. Six months of self-taught work before that. Portfolio with four case studies. LinkedIn says "open to work."
Head of Product at a Series A fintech startup. Team of 11. Designers in Kyiv. Developers in Warsaw. PM in London. They decide to run a full UX redesign of their onboarding flow.
VP of Product at a Series B fintech company. 73 employees. Building a loan application platform. Needed to redesign their onboarding flow – drop-off was 68% at identity verification.
Founder at a Y Combinator startup. Building expense management software for small businesses (similar to Expensify). Raised $800K pre-seed. Hired a product designer for 9 weeks of MVP UX design work.
A VP of Product at a Series B SaaS company. Their customer success dashboard launched 7 months ago. Support tickets are up 34% since launch. Users can't find the data they need. The product team knows
