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💸 Know Your Worth: A Special Survey Just for You
| I'm Femke – a senior product designer helping designers level up their design careers. |
Hey Reader,
The past years have been, without a doubt, a time of great flux. Industries have shifted, economies have adjusted, and the workplace as we knew it has transformed. Among these changes, one topic has consistently emerged at the forefront of professional discussions: salary transparency.
Why is it important?
- Empowerment Through Knowledge: When we are aware of industry-standard salaries, we can better negotiate our worth. It's not just about the paycheck, but recognizing the value of our skills and expertise.
- Addressing Inequalities: Transparent discussions around pay can highlight and help address systemic disparities, ensuring a fairer playing field for all.
- Shaping the Future Workplace: As remote work, gig economy jobs, and new roles emerge, understanding compensation becomes even more critical. Your insights will help pave the way for others.
With this in mind, I've created a survey exclusively for our community. By sharing your experience, you'll contribute to a deeper understanding of our industry's current state and future direction.
🔗 Take the Salary Transparency Survey
As we wave goodbye to summer and gear up for what’s next, let's take a moment for some collective insight. This survey will hopefully empower us to shed light on our value in the industry. Your perspective is invaluable, and together, we shape our community.
- Femke
Want to dive into more? Here’s some further reading:
- How to Evaluate a Tech Job Salary Offer
- 10 Essential Strategies to Land a High-Paying 100K Tech Job
- 20+ Reasons Why You’re Not Getting Interviews, And Ultimately An Offer
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🤖 Free Resources: A Round-up!
Uxcel
The best way to learn UX Design and one of my favourite resources. It’s like Duolingo for learning UX Design and it’s mostly free! (Ps, Community members get full-access for free!)
Humaaans
I love this completely free library! You can mix-&-match illustrations of people from their hairdo’s to poses.
Some of the most beautiful and versatile free font collections I’ve come across. There’s even a couple variable fonts in there!
Coolors
Seriously the best colour palette picker, generator, and contrast checker! Bookmark this one for future use.
Wordmark
Struggling to decide what typography to use for your project? Type in your text and this generator helps you find what font to use for your new project.
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👩💻 Who's Hiring?
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Gusto (Where I work!)
Do you have experience designing end-to-end customer journeys from software to service? Focus on crafting high quality, high impact solutions and get them in front of customers.
Multiple Sr. Product Designer roles open - US & Canada only
Intercom
Lead the evolution of the website experience, to fully utilize modern web technologies, and deliver great experiences to visitors while meeting marketing goals at speed and scale.
1 open role - Staff Design Engineer - Website
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