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You have the talent. The craft is solid. But promotion isn’t about being the best designer. It’s about operating like a senior before the title. Start with the free Senior Designer Readiness Checklist.
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01Entry Guide
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10 Tips for
Product Designers
Most designers get stuck not because they lack talent, but because they’re focusing on the wrong things. This guide cuts through the noise and shows you exactly which habits, mindsets, and skills actually move the needle.
In an AI world, knowing what to get good at matters more than ever. 10 practical tips. No fluff. The kind of clarity that normally takes years to develop.
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What’s inside
01
The mindset shift that separates designers who grow from those who stall
02
How to use AI without letting it replace your judgment
03
The habits that compound fastest early in your career
04
How to build a point of view that makes you unforgettable
05
What senior designers do differently in every single meeting
06
The one career move most mid-level designers never make
+ 4 more tips inside
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02The Playbook
€49 · Instant PDF Download
Senior Product
Designer Playbook
The designers getting promoted aren’t always the most talented. They’re the ones who’ve figured out how to make their work impossible to ignore. This playbook gives you the exact framework to do that.
10 chapters covering the hard skills, soft skills, and senior qualities that move you from “solid designer” to the person everyone wants on their team.
Best for designers 3–7 years in who are ready to stop guessing and start operating at the next level.
Bonus included
Quarterly Promotion Readiness Checklist + “What to Do If You’re Not Promoted” guide
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Inside the playbook
01
Why talent alone won't get you promoted, and what actually does
02
How to make your design judgment visible to the people who matter
03
The specific behaviours that signal senior-level thinking
04
How to manage up so your manager advocates for you at review time
+ 6 more chapters inside
Instant PDF · 10 chapters · Bonus checklist included
03AI Edition
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The Senior
Designer’s
AI Playbook
Senior designers aren’t paid for output. They’re paid for judgment: framing the right problem, making sound decisions, and raising the quality of everything around them. AI used well changes the economics of that work.
The tasks that used to consume a week, synthesising a dozen interviews, writing a decision record, preparing rationale for three different audiences, now take a fraction of the time. That time gets reinvested in the work only you can do.
7 chapters covering every area where senior designers create disproportionate value, plus a full prompt library and five workflow cheat sheets designed to keep open while you work.
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Inside the AI playbook
01
How to use AI to frame problems before a single stakeholder meeting
02
Synthesising 12 interviews in an afternoon without losing the signal
03
Writing decision records and rationale faster, without outsourcing the judgment
04
Raising the quality of your team's work using AI as a thinking partner
+ chapter on when NOT to use AI
Instant PDF · 7 chapters · Full prompt library + 5 workflow cheat sheets
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10 Tips for Designers
The 10 habits every designer needs to keep growing in an AI world.
€10
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- 10 actionable habits
- Practical frameworks
- For early-to-mid career designers
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Senior Designer Playbook
10 comprehensive chapters on how to operate at senior level and get promoted.
€49
- Instant digital download (PDF)
- 10 in-depth chapters
- Promotion readiness checklist
- For designers 3–7 years in
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Senior Designer's AI Playbook
How to use AI for senior-level work: problem framing, research synthesis, decision-making, and impact.
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- 7 in-depth chapters
- Full prompt library (Appendix A)
- 5 workflow cheat sheets (Appendix B)
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Written from 8 years in the trenches
Not theory. Every chapter reflects real patterns from working as a senior designer and watching others get stuck, and unstuck.
Specific, not generic
No "be more strategic" advice. Concrete behaviours, frameworks, and language you can use in your next 1:1 or design review.
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About Design Growth
Design Growth was built by a senior product designer with 8+ years in the industry. These guides are built from observing real patterns across dozens of designer promotions and rejections at design-forward companies — the signals that separated people who advanced from people who plateaued.
Most useful career advice never gets written down. It lives in 1:1s, in feedback that’s too blunt to say out loud, and in the unspoken criteria that hiring managers use. These guides exist to make that visible.
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Writing on promotion, visibility, and the craft of growing as a designer.
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Both guides are digital downloads available as PDF. Instant access after purchase. Read on any device.
Early-to-mid career designers who want a clear framework for what skills to focus on, especially in an AI world.
Designers 3–7 years in who are stuck on promotion and want specific, actionable strategies to operate at senior level.
Two bundle options: 10 Tips + Playbook for €52 (save €7), or all three guides (10 Tips, Playbook, and AI Playbook) for €80 (save €18, best value).
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