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🌱 Hi, welcome to my Digital Garden

I’m Trong, a product designer based in Singapore.

This is my 🌱 digital garden β€” a Β public notebook to 🌱 learn in public, write 🌱 evergreen notes, and plant the seeds for more ambitious works. Keeping a public log of what you build is an effective way to track your learning process.

It’s less than a blog but more than a tweet.

I send my best notes through emails bi-weekly. Subscribe if you're down with it.

Atomic Essays

Opinionated, shortform narrative writting

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STAR Interview Method for Product Designers

STAR Interview Method for Product Designers

STAR interview method is a powerful tool that product designers can use to showcase skills during job interviews.
iA Presenter is impressive

iA Presenter is impressive

The execution of iA Presenter is fantastic! I believe they will go much further soon.
How to prepare for your Facebook product design interview

How to prepare for your Facebook product design interview

Highlights from Lily Konings’s sharing on how to land a product design job at Facebook
Write first, present later

Write first, present later

Writing first and presenting later is one of the best pieces of advice I get in my career.

Evergreen Notes

Loose, unopinionated notes on things I don’t entirely understand yet.

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Jul 19 2023

Different High-level Designs

The more senior the designer, the more abstract the problem they should be solving. Designer Lvl 1: Design a form
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Mar 26 2023

🌱 Being a generalist helps you find the right career choice

Being a self-taught designer has been something that made me unconfident. I hated how I never specialized in anything in
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Mar 02 2023

🌱 Children who are later talkers

🌱 Feynman was an American theoretical physicist born in New York City. He’s a famous physicist, but many people know
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Mar 02 2023

🌱 Feynman

Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist born in 1918 in New York City. Feynman was a very late talkerβ€”
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Mar 01 2023

🌱 Fall in love with the process over outcomes

If you are like me and many other creatives, you have many interests and want to do many things. You’
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Feb 28 2023

🌱 You can improve anything with 30 min a day for 30 days

🌱 The Seinfeld strategy β€” Don’t break the chain encourages us to use a big calendar that has a whole year
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Feb 16 2023

🌱 Atomic essays

Have you heard of the term "atomic essay" coined by the Ship-30-by-30 creators? It's a fascinating concept that I absolutely
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Feb 14 2023

πŸ“— And I got an offer πŸŽ‰

Oh Yeah. I got an offer. After almost 3 months of unemployment and many rejections, I got an offer. I
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Feb 08 2023

πŸ“— A company I'm interviewing at has conducted a layoff

Do you believe that? Yeah, it's the truth. Anything can happen, mah. I was in the middle of an interview
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Jan 13 2023

🌱 Ask for quick sharing right after every user interview

Doing this will help you synthesize user research 2x faster.
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Jan 12 2023

🌱 πŸ“— Whiteboard challenge Step-by-Step & Tips

Some companies will have a whiteboard design challenge. I will have one session next week. It will be a case
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Jan 08 2023

🌱 Building a product isn't about whether it can be built

But about if people need it. Learning to code might be wise. I think everyone should learn to code nowadays.
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Jan 06 2023

🌱 Moving my website to Ghost

I’m building an entirely new website with Ghost. My goal is ambitious β€” to make it my primary website. It
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Jan 04 2023

πŸ“— Interviewing & Rejection

Yesterday I had only one interview with a designer from a big crypto company. The interviewer is very nice, kind,
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Jan 04 2023

🌱 Powerful life hacks for career, health, and relationship

Sahil Bloom is my greatest resource for learning. His newsletter and Twitter content always give me new and powerful lessons.
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Dec 29 2022

πŸ“— Two more chats with HR, and it was good

But today, I got two chats with HR from two new companies. Both are crypto companies, one is a startup,
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Dec 22 2022

πŸ“— Chat with Viki Recruiter

I had a Chat with a recruiter from Rakuten this morning. He's very nice and warm. Talking with him is
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Dec 21 2022

πŸ“¨ Letter from Audience #01

πŸ’ŒHi Trong, I am Yurong, a product designer based in Singapore. I chanced upon your article on LinkedIn and when
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