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Design Docs

Semi-opinionated design industry documentation

License: CC0-1.0

Version 2.0

There is no "right way" to find your path in the industry. The world of digital product design is still rapidly evolving and has come a long way, even in the past five years. The exciting part is you are on your way to joining an industry with a tremendous amount of impact on people's day-to-day lives–It's up to you to make it for better and not for worse.

Together, we'll outline some common paths, roles, and the way they interact. However, never feel like you must follow a path anyone lays out for you. One of the most magical things about design and the digital world is that you can always forge your own way, and there are some exciting corners to find.

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The Project

This is an ongoing project to help early career designers bootstrap their up to their first job in the tech industry. The goal is to be complete without being overly verbose.

I generally want to bias towards giving direction without being overly opinionated. There are infinite paths, tools and opinions out there, and I hope having a clearly outlined example of an early path will be helpful to some.

You can leave feedback on the project & content here: Feedback – Getting your first job in the product design industry

Contributing

Note: This site and all its contents are published under a CC0-1.0 license. This means that anyone can do anything with this content, including use it in commercial works or copy it word for word. I think education work belongs in the public domain without constraints, so if you decide to contribute, make sure you are ok with this!

  • Building the project should be as easy as cloning it locally and running npm install. You can run the dev:watch script to get live reloading of MDX content.
  • Feel free to contribute a PR with any fixes, typos, etc.
  • Open an issue or discussion before updating content, or submit a PR with your changes or suggestions.
  • Feel free to reach out with any thoughts or questions!

TODO

Short Term

  • Rewrite content in a more neutral perspective with optional, attributable opinion blocks.
  • Finish all the existing sections
  • Overall accessibility pass on the site
  • Improve performance and deal with smaller issues (Lighthouse)
  • Set up CI for code quality, and accessibility checks
  • Add tests

Long Term

  • Start a project to track TODOs
  • Create a style guide for tone & writing style
  • Source contributors to write and review content and industry professionals to review content and provide quotes and snippets.
  • Split this repository into two – One for content in raw markdown content and one for the website.
  • Many more to come!

Tech

  • Next.js
  • Tailwindcss
  • MDXRemote