Improve your chances of success with these tips — Hurray! You’ve passed the Portfolio Review and have now reached the final stage of the Product Design Interview: the Design Challenge. Admittedly if this is your first time interviewing, a Design Challenge can be nerve-wracking! I will walk through an example of a Design Challenge that I submitted as part…

Consider these questions when crafting your presentation — Congrats! You’ve passed the initial phase of interviewing and now you’ve been invited to attend a portfolio review. But what does that even mean? …

Improve your chances of success with these useful tips — Building a portfolio can be an extremely overwhelming and time-consuming process. In the last few months, I’ve received many questions from junior designers on how they should go about creating their first portfolio: How might I begin creating a portfolio? What if I don’t have any experience? What do recruiters…

A designer’s blueprint for success — In the last few months of joining Canva as a Product Designer, I’ve received many questions around what it means to be in Product Design. What is Product Design? What is the Product Design process? What skills do I need to be a Product Designer? I recently had the opportunity…

Are you the only designer or one of few in your company? Is the value of design being questioned by the people above you? Does anyone really know what you do as a product or UX/UI designer? Sound familiar to you? These are just some examples of the challenges that…

Think about the impact on society and beyond — As product designers, we play an important role in shaping our future. The products we create have the power to transform how societies think, feel and behave. For this reason, we must be conscious of the social and ethical responsibility that we have towards our users. We as designers are…