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Are there transferrable skills into product design?
I'll just spoil the article for anyone who's impatient: no.
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Y. Atallah
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Frequent questions I get around tech companies
For those who may be familiar with me, they’d know that I’ve been working at tech companies (ranging in the size of eight people to eighty thousand) as…
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Y. Atallah
December 2022
What if there aren’t actually any specializations in design?
In a previous article, I described the internal workings of a number of tech companies I’ve worked at over my seven years in the industry — these…
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Y. Atallah
How design (generally) works at tech companies
In my seven years as a designer, I’ve worked across a lot of companies — this wasn’t my intent, and so it’s not necessarily something I’m particularly…
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Y. Atallah
How to find a good mentor
As many of you know, I’ve done a lot of mentoring — probably with north of eighty people at this point. Though I am no longer mentoring, something I’ve…
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Y. Atallah
Visual design — the designer’s Great Satan
Visual design — the designer’s Great Satan For my entire career in design, I have observed what appears to be an industry-wide low opinion of visual…
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Y. Atallah
The problem with being values-driven
Working at tech companies, you might notice a great deal of discussion from companies about their “values” — they might describe themselves as…
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Y. Atallah
November 2022
How to incentivize your mentor to keep mentoring you
Those who know me know that I do a lot of mentoring of other designers. As I always say, I have no idea why I do this, but I do know that I feel mostly…
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Y. Atallah
Okay, “networking,” but does it work, though?
For those who may know me, it’s known that I do a ton of mentoring of designers. Often, from these designers, I get questions around whether they should…
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Y. Atallah
“Design system” versus “component library” — what’s going on here?
“Design system” versus “component library” — what’s going on here? If you’ve hung around designers, you might be familiar with words like “design…
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Y. Atallah
What’s the story with “storytelling”?
Lately, I’ve seen more and more talk about the importance of something referred to as “storytelling” in the designer’s career. For whatever reason, the…
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Y. Atallah
October 2022
Let the buyer beware: a warning for pre-career designers
I’ve been mentoring designers for years but, over this last one, the time I’ve spent mentoring has ballooned. I have no explanation for why I’ve done…
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Y. Atallah
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