Whether you’re just starting off your design career or a seasoned pro looking to get involved in growing the design community, mentorship can be a helpful starting point. Share and receive career advice, polish your portfolio, interview techniques and develop leadership skills by getting connected.

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Here are some things I wish I knew before starting my first few design jobs:

1. Continue building a portfolio of work

Part of your growth as an early designer is to build out a portfolio of work. If you’ve just graduated, it’s ok to have your portfolio be composed of mainly student projects.

It’s more important…

Nowadays, there’s a growing number of UX conferences (gone virtual) that deliver sessions on a range of topics from UI design, usability, interaction design, front end design, branding, career growth and research, in every single format imaginable. …

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Feedback from customers have a tendency to bounce between extremes, you’ll either hear from those who hate your business with a burning passion or are delighted fans (hopefully it’s the latter).

Customer support often has to be the receivers of bad news and deliver gentle words in difficult and emotional…

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Without using your job title, what do you do?

I build and launch tiny internet projects, and in…