Too much UX advice?
How do you find a way forward when everyone seems to have a different answer? A conversation about career advice, coaching, and growing at a pace that works for you.
Hosted by Nick Mann
THAT FITS YOU.
Finding your own way forward.
Make the next step
more manageable.
Filter advice through your own situation.
Career guidance can be useful, but it needs to fit your experience, goals, and circumstances.
Start with a sustainable rhythm.
Nick describes helping a designer replace the pressure to post daily with a more manageable weekly routine.
Practice telling your story.
A mock interview can reveal where your answers need more structure and leave space for follow-up questions.
Give yourself room to slow down.
Your energy and priorities change. Adjusting your pace can help you keep moving without burning out.
There is more than
one way to grow.
When you are building a career in UX, the advice can be overwhelming. One person tells you to do one thing, another recommends the opposite, and it can be hard to know what deserves your attention.
Nick Groeneveld, founder of The Designer’s Toolbox and co-host of The Design Table Podcast, joins Nick Mann to talk about helping designers find a path that works for them.
They discuss coaching, the fear of sharing work, interview preparation, freelancing, and the importance of choosing a sustainable pace.
Explore the
conversation.
From conflicting advice to building a career on your own terms.
- Starting The Design Table Podcast
- Why designers feel overwhelmed by advice
- Making a sustainable plan for sharing your work
- Fear, feedback, and putting yourself out there
- Interview practice and communicating your work
- What coaching can offer at different career stages
- Building a freelance career gradually
- Energy, burnout, and slowing down
Nick Groeneveld
Founder · The Designer’s Toolbox
Nick is a freelance UX and product designer, coach, writer, and co-host of The Design Table Podcast. Through The Designer’s Toolbox, he shares resources and mentoring to help designers build their careers.
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