STAR Interview Method for Product Designers
STAR interview method is a powerful tool that product designers can use to showcase skills during job interviews.
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I’m Trong, a product designer based in Singapore.
This is my 🌱 digital garden — a 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.
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Atomic Essays
Opinionated, shortform narrative writting
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
Highlights from Lily Konings’s sharing on how to land a product design job at Facebook
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.
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 talker—
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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 — 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
📗 And I got an offer 🎉
Oh Yeah. I got an offer.
After almost 3 months of unemployment and many rejections, I got an offer. I
3 min read
Feb 08 2023
📗 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
🌱 📗 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 — to make it my primary website.
It
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Jan 04 2023
📗 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
📗 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
📗 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
📨 Letter from Audience #01
💌Hi Trong,
I am Yurong, a product designer based in Singapore. I chanced upon your article on LinkedIn and when
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