Connie Chen

💫 My team is hiring! **US only.**

www.trueanomaly.space/careers

any of yall design freelancers into aviation/wanna work on some remote piloting interfaces

Don't let the decisions of companies, whether good or bad, define who you are and your craft. The moment you stop attaching your talents and craft to a company or job, the sooner you realize that nobody can *ever* take that away from you. You will always be in control, I promise.

This might be my favourite rebrand of the year. Especially because how well it respects where the brand is coming from.

lean component libraries are my weakness ❤️‍🔥 ...current emotional outlet: taooffigma.com

I've done about a hundred portfolio reviews. The single worst mistake you can make is revealing halfway through the call that you're actually just a large pile of hermit crabs, your thousand pincers snapping together to form a rough facsimile of human speech.

nobody generating shareholder value like you. will be endorsing you for geopolitical diplomatic relations and soft belly

To sell something new, you need to make it familiar, and to sell something familiar, you need to make it surprising.

give yourself permission to be a beginner

Goals are personal. Certain paths in life have to be walked alone. Tough horse pill to swallow. 

The flip side of heartbreak = the chance to seek clarity + grace amidst grief. 

Wrapping myself + all of Posts in one ginormous bear hug 🫂

You just need ONE thing to work to change your life. You don’t need to be a millionaire, or famous, or revered by an industry to be successful in your own way. Just find a path that works, and keep taking the next right step.

waiting for the client to get back to you with feedback so you can clock tf in

For any bay area folks we will have hats and totes available at Freddie’s shop in El Cerrito going forward!

https://freddies.shop

Shoutout Spotify wrapped for leaving out the days worth of lo-fi + brown noise I listened to this year

Helpful job-search hack I just discovered.
Go to google, type in "site:notion.site [your desired job role]"

Many tech companies use notion for their job listings. Sometimes these listings aren't available on public job boards.  This hack will take you directly to their notion

Fighting the urge not to purchase more physical books

If you (startup product designer) suddenly find yourself without any PMs / product directors (layoffs) and now report directly to Software... whatdafuk are your next moves?? 🕺🪩✨

Not me sending this to all my engineer friends/coworkers 😂💀 

“Silence engineer. Ideas guy is talking”

You must climb the mountain of cringe to arrive at the valley of slay

at this point i just love playing with scroll like a child

The most fascinating aspect of problem-solving is that, up until the design phase, everything operates on a meta level, free from subjective evaluation and driven solely by natural principles. This makes it a far more accessible field for innovation and the creation of new ideas.

"Sometimes it's inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific." 🍉🍉🍉

May you live long enough to be embarrassed by your best work

a new font will cure my depression, this time for sure.

No matter what, people will support people. There is still humanity here after all. If you're looking for support during this time or know someone who needs it, please reach out if you're able. Do yourself a favor, do not suffer alone.

Winter is gorgeous but sometimes I do miss the sun.

Any solo designers (no matter what level) at startups interested in creating a tiny group to hang out, discuss, share, give feedback, help out each other, etc. on a Discord server? 👀

Drop me a DM 🙏

Best practices/tips for Figma<>React handoff?

beginning to understand that stagnancy isn’t inherently bad - it’s time + space to let go and recalibrate towards where you’re meant to go next

Happy Lunar New Year Posts! I hope everyone on this app makes it rain mad red envelopes this year🧧

Who’s got experience designing React-based graphs/dataviz for dashboard apps? Would love to pick your brain box

When I was looking for my next role, one of the companies I was exploring assigned a take-home design exercise during the interview process, and I had to figure out how to proceed. 

Here's what I explained to them (+ a proposal)—if this is you, feel free to steal it! 👇

I am actively looking for a Senior UX/Product Designer with full-time opportunities in healthcare, biotech, or ed-tech. I appreciate your support and connections. Thank you.💛

conniechen.design

I used to hang out with body builders. And they would repeat "progress is progress".

Building a huge physique takes years. The changes are not really noticeable. 

So you have to trust the process, your job is to make a little progress, consistently.

Revisiting The Met as an adult with adult money and adult frontal lobe basically healed my inner kiddo