The Design Journal — Page 5
Occasional bad takes, mostly good banter, and a few UX/UI opinions worth keeping.
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I Read 58 Live Product Designer Job Postings So You Don't Have To
I read 58 live Product Designer job postings line by line: years of experience, salary ranges, remote policy, tools, and the requirements nobody puts in the title. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down what companies are actually asking for right now.
What's Actually Happening to Entry-Level Design Jobs Right Now
Recent college grads now have a higher unemployment rate than the workforce overall, a historic reversal. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down what the Stanford, Harvard, and NY Fed data actually say about AI and entry-level design jobs.
AI Interviewers Are Here. This Is My Experience.
96% of hiring professionals now use AI in recruiting tasks, but only 26% of candidates trust it to judge them fairly. A recruiter turned AI product designer on why AI interviewers glitch, why companies use them anyway, and what to ask before your next interview turns out to be a bot.
Job Search Burnout: How to Keep Going When You're Drained
Month four of my job search, I hit a wall. 241 applications, 12 interviews, 156 companies never responded. Here's what job search rejection does to your brain and how to keep going when you're drained.
I Scheduled Six-Round Interview Loops for a Living. Here's Why They Keep Growing.
Interview loops have ballooned to five, six, seven-plus rounds, and Google's own research found the extra rounds stopped helping after the fourth. Why companies keep adding them, and how to tell a normal process from a broken one.
I Screened Hundreds of 40-Plus Career Changers. Here's What Actually Worked.
What separates the 40-plus career changers who get hired from the ones who get ghosted, drawing on years of screening candidates and my own pivot into design.