Where do you stand? The analysis of the 2016 Design Salary Survey
We finished analyzing the results of the Design Salary Survey and we found a ton of interesting data from the overwhelming 3,167 respondents. We hope this gives you a better understanding of the industry standards and how salaries differ between countries, job titles, experience levels and more.
Introducing: Icon54 – a set of more than 2100 icons for designers
We are super excited to finally share with you the following items that we’ve been working on for the past couple months! We’ve been working alongside the amazing Adoric team to bring you this set of over 2100 high quality vector icons that have been carefully crafted and split to all the relevant categories of user interface design. Go […]
Scaling a Design Team, Episode #5: Feat. Joel Califa, Product Design Lead at Digital Ocean
This week we’re thrilled to share with you our talk with Joel Califa (twitter). Joel is a Product Design Lead at DigitalOcean, Founder of Design & Code, and Front-End Instructor at GA . On this call with us is Noam Liss, senior product designer at SimilarWeb.
The open sourced results to the 2016 Design Salary Survey
Hey all, Thank you so much to everyone who participated and provided their input. We had an astounding 3,135 responses! We’ve officially closed the survey and have all of the data now. As we mentioned before, we are sharing this data freely. So we hope you use it to build cool things, or just to […]
Introducing: The Design Conferences Slack Team
After the crazy success of our two meetups last year in NY and San Fran, we’ve been wracking our brains trying to think of ways to facilitate more in-person meetups and offline gatherings. Several sleepless nights later, we figured it out: a Slack group for all things related to design conferences. To make this group as effective […]
Take part in the 2016 Design Salary Survey
Hey all, We’ve partnered with the amazing team at Hired.com and created this survey to better understand the state of the industry and get a better picture of the employment situation for creatives. Once we have the survey results we will publish them on Hackingui.com with our complete breakdown and analysis. UPDATE (MAY 2016): The […]
Scaling a Design Team, Episode #4: Feat. Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design at Intercom
This week we’re thrilled to share with you our talk with Emmet Connolly. Emmet is Intercom’s Product Design Director. Also joining us on this call is Noam Liss, senior product designer at SimilarWeb. Talking with Emmet was insightful, and we learned a lot about the way Intercom’s design team works and scaled.
Scaling a Design Team, Episode #3: Feat. Melissa Hajj, Design Manager at Facebook
This week we’re coming at you from the Facebook Tel Aviv office, where we were lucky to have two special guests join us, Melissa Hajj and Noam Liss. Melissa is the head of Facebook’s core growth design team, whose stated mission is connecting the next billion people to Facebook (no big deal). Noam is a senior product designer at SimilarWeb and the editor in chief of Pixel Perfect Magazine. Melissa was full of insights and gave us great ideas for improving organizational structure, design leadership, and for creating the ideal work environment. An hour with her was just not enough.
Scaling a Design Team, Episode #2: The Hacking UI Design Panel event in San Francisco
This November we teamed up with Design&Startups and launched a free product design panel event, discussing product team structures, responsibilities, and workflows. It was an amazing experience for me hosting the first ever Hacking UI event in San Francisco. The panelists were amazing and listening to what they had to say was super insightful!
A Martial Artist’s approach to the whole ‘should designers learn code?’ discussion
This Design Code argument/discussion is a dead horse to a lot of you out there, I know. But… I still get to be asked by other designers about this, both newbies and experienced. So I thought I’d write about this topic now. When people ask me about this -this is what I say. I’ve been […]
