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Pick up some required reading

A well-written and thorough book can be an amazing path to build deeper understanding on Design and also act as a handbook as you discover the internet's vast resources.

Many resources around the web are based on these books, so they are a great place to start.

Consult places like Goodreads and Amazon to get the widest possible selection, as well as input from other peers on which books to pick.

Work with one of our 475 Design mentors available

Self-teaching is a great tool, but working with an experienced mentor can accelerate your learnings by 10x.

Our mentors are hand-picked Design experts who will help you learn Design and guide you towards your goals.

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I designed and built most of HubSpot's observability platform, and have handled realtime (sub-15s latency) streams of millions of datapoints per minute, and terabytes per day. I've improved Amazon's open source balancing algorithm for Kinesis to support downtime-free rebalancing over thousands of concurrent shards. I wrote the first endorsed Java …

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Hi there! I'm Riccardo, an Italian UX Design Lead living in Tokyo since 2010. With 13+ years of relevant experience in UX Design, Interaction Design, and Design Thinking, I spent most of my career in Japan, designing for startups as well as big corporations. Nowadays I work as Lead UX …

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Hi! I'm Addy, I'm a software engineer @Booking.com and an interview engineer @Karat. I'm an ex software engineer @Amazon and @Microsoft. I have conducted 1350+ interviews for different companies, and I have been interviewed by 500+ companies in the last 10 years. I have passed the technical interviews as a …

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Hi, I'm Cat Achieng, A UX Designer specialising in Digital Product Design, Web Design, and User Interface/Experience Design. Previously, I was freelancing full–time as a Web Designer / Developer for 8+ years, creating websites that are simple, beautiful, and easy to use. I am happiest when working on a UX …

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I see myself as a Senior Technical Engineer, but truly I wear many hats over my career. I have to build many teams and teams of teams and products and people. I focused on Site Reliability Engineering, Security, Data, Quality and Software Engineering. I am a public speaker, a coach …

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So I'm John a product designer of services/applications, I'm a South African by birth with an Irish mother. I have an obsessive nature for the understanding of complex and beautiful things. Be it software, gadgets, people or even macro systems. This has naturally found me designing software and services for …

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Nice to meet you! I'm currently a Sr. UX Designer at JPMorgan Chase with 4 years of design experience. I'm leading projects for Voice Operations at Chase. Prior, I worked at a B2B/B2C design agency and freelanced to B2C clients. I made the jump to design from being an Executive …

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Originally an engineer who moved into Product Management 10 years ago, I am passionate about the user and product space. I understand technical complexity well and have used that knowledge to build products in companies as small as a 5 person startup and as big as eBay and Zillow. My …

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Work under great Design instructors through courses

Get a bit more hands-on with your learning by taking a course. Courses are a great way to get started with Design and get a bit more practical experience.

Many courses are also accompanied by a community, which can be a great way to get feedback and help from peers.

Finally, courses can get you beyond the basics of Design and into more advanced topics, certifications and even job opportunities.

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