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Been a few weeks since my last newsletter, but I have a new one tee'd up and ready to go out. • Influencing as a Staff Designer • How Customer Service can benefit from Ai • How to survive American politics • A map of the Milky Way's history Subscribe: tedgoas.com/newsletter/

Newsletter | Ted Goas
Ted Goas is a reliable product designer and front-end developer working on websites, applications, and HTML emails.
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Hey all, I wanted to share a very bittersweet update here before we shared it anywhere else. First, the hard part — we’ve made the difficult decision to wind down Read.cv and Posts starting this month.

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🔎 We're looking for an amazing Creative Director to join our team, remote in the 🇺🇸 US! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4120…

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🔎 We're looking for an amazing Creative Director to join our team, remote in the 🇺🇸 US! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4120…

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I wrote about how Senior Designers gets hired / promoted, and some thoughts on the current state of social media in my newsletter. Plus some fun links and a neat website: tedgoas.beehiiv.com/p/how-senior-d… Sign up here: tedgoas.com/newsletter

How senior designers get promoted
Plus... am I quitting social media? Maybe.
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📣 Dialpad is hiring Multiple positions in 🎨 Design, 🛠️ Engineering, 🧠 Product, and more. Generally if you're in the same country listed in the ad, remote is ok. I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral dialpad.com/careers/open-o…

Dialpad - Cloud Communication Platform Powered by AI | Dialpad
Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communication platform that makes it easier and more efficient to connect and collaborate with your team. Try for free!"
Ted Goas

📣 Dialpad is hiring Multiple positions in 🎨 Design, 🛠️ Engineering, 🧠 Product, and more. Generally if you're in the same country listed in the ad, remote is ok. I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral dialpad.com/careers/open-o…

Dialpad - Cloud Communication Platform Powered by AI | Dialpad
Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communication platform that makes it easier and more efficient to connect and collaborate with your team. Try for free!"
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🔎 Estamos buscando un Sr. Product Designer increible en 🇦🇷 Argentina! (Hablamos íngles, pero español tambien). Estaré disponible para charlar si tiene preguntas o quiere una referencia. Full description here: grnh.se/35b6b72a2us

Senior Product Designer, Dialpad Connect
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ted Goas

🔎 Estamos buscando un Sr. Product Designer increible en 🇦🇷 Argentina! (Hablamos íngles, pero español tambien). Estaré disponible para charlar si tiene preguntas o quiere una referencia. Full description here: grnh.se/35b6b72a2us

Senior Product Designer, Dialpad Connect
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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🔎 We're looking for an Sr. Design Manager to join our team remote in the 🇺🇸 US! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. Full description here: grnh.se/99c8b0462us

Sr. Design Manager, Connect
Austin, US
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🔎 We're looking for an amazing Senior Staff Product Designer to join our Mobile & Devices team, remote in the 🇺🇸 US! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. Full description here: grnh.se/6b04f6532us

Senior Staff Product Designer, Mobile & Devices
San Ramon, US
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🔎 Looking for yet another amazing Sr. Product Designer to join our growing team in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London area! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. Full description here: grnh.se/848eac292us

Sr. Product Designer, Dialpad Connect
London, UK
Ted Goas

🔎 We're looking for an amazing Senior Staff Product Designer to join our Mobile & Devices team, remote in the 🇺🇸 US! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. Full description here: grnh.se/6b04f6532us

Senior Staff Product Designer, Mobile & Devices
San Ramon, US
Ted Goas

🔎 Looking for yet another amazing Sr. Product Designer to join our growing team in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London area! I'm happy to DM / chat if you have questions or want a referral. Full description here: grnh.se/848eac292us

Sr. Product Designer, Dialpad Connect
London, UK
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Christmas haul

Three books: Escape the build trap, what’s our problem, and Engineering management for the rest of us.
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I'm sending my last newsletter of the year today and am trying a new format: A few small thoughts and good links from around the web. Sign up here: tedgoas.com/newsletter/

Newsletter | Ted Goas
Ted Goas is a reliable product designer and front-end developer working on websites, applications, and HTML emails.
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I love finding someone's home-made blog (not a Medium or Substack or something) and binging three years worth of articles in one sitting. Plz keep making your own websites folks, the world appreciates it ❤️

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Black Friday / Cyber Monday (and the waste it produces) is out of control. It's time we think beyond the instant gratification and short-term profits. Without getting too preachy, I wrote some thoughts in my newsletter, going on Wednesday: tedgoas.com/newsletter/

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I've pretty much abandoned twitter at this point if anyone wants to hang with me on 🦋 Bluesky bsky.app/profile/tedgoa… (Obviously I love Posts too!)

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I've pretty much abandoned twitter at this point if anyone wants to hang with me on 🦋 Bluesky bsky.app/profile/tedgoa… (Obviously I love Posts too!)

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“Move fast and break things” gets a bad rap these days, but I think there’s still a place for it in modern times. I wrote about that (plus a short note on the US election) in my newsletter going out later today: tedgoas.com/newsletter

An old-timey, worn out street sign that reads 'move fast and break things'
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As a manager, my days are packed with meetings. I’ve written about a few techniques I use to get enough breathing room each week to stay grounded and keep myself sane. tedgoas.beehiiv.com/p/how-i-manage…

How I manage a packed calendar while keeping my sanity
A few lessons learned from being a product design lead and manager at a late stage startup.
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Does your work calendar look like this every week? Mine too? Monday's newsletter discusses about what I'm doing about it. tedgoas.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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my toxic trait is going into my spam folder and marking legit emails as not spam

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"Any newsletters you’d recommend?" My next newsletter is about newsletters. And some other stuff too. Sending Tuesday evening. Subscribe here: tedgoas.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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What's it like being the only designer supporting a bunch of engineers? I wrote about my experience in my latest newsletter, sending this Monday: tedgoas.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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"Designers don't need to code, but damn it sure does make things a lot easier" is a thought I've been gravitating towards more and more.

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Management is disappointing people at a rate they can absorb. Reality will always mess with our perfect world, so it’s our responsibility to coach our teams through it: tedgoas.beehiiv.com/p/managing-dis…

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Leadership (and management) is disappointing people at a rate they can absorb. Email goes out Tuesday 👉 tedgoas.beehiiv.com/subscribe

The Last Two Weeks
A fortnightly newsletter product design and leadership
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I'm hiring a senior product designer on our design systems team at @dialpad! You'll get to make stuff all day, have a lot of ownership, move quickly, and help us evolve our design system. Remote (in americas) full time. Happy to answer any questions! grnh.se/4992012a2us

Job Application for Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Dialpad
Austin, US
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I sent a newsletter that mentioned politics and only got 1 unsubscribe, I'd consider that a win. Also most of the newsletter is about a really good book I read: tedgoas.beehiiv.com/p/road-less-st…

The Road Less Stupid
And a quick word on 🇺🇸 politics…
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My favorite Figma #Config2024 talk so far is Joyce Croft's talk on emotional intelligence. Because design is more about working with people than working with tools: youtube.com/watch?v=JLjcdZ…

Config 2024: Design as therapy: emotional dynamics of aerospace engineering | Figma
Config 2024: Design as therapy: emotional dynamics of aerospace engineering As a designer at NASA JPL, Joyce wears many hats – researcher, designer, interviewer, UXer, pixel pusher, collaborator, translator, educator, strategist, leader – and her engineer coworkers believe that designers just make things pretty. Joyce works with system engineers to build a software suite that helps JPL model new mission concepts. To do that, she has to build trust to listen to engineers gripe about historical tools, methods, and processes. A lot of times, they talk endlessly about problems and pain points. Joyce is their therapist. Featuring: Joyce Croft, Senior Human-Centered Designer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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For the past ~10 years I've kept a brag document. I honestly couldn't imagine doing a performance review or job interview without it. I finally wrote about what a brag document is and how to start one: medium.com/@tedgoas/why-y…

Why you should have a brag document
It’s your secret weapon for performance reviews and job interviews
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Alright it's been almost a month since my last newsletter and I swear this weekend I'm gonna finish a post about brag documents! Sign up here: tedgoas.com/newsletter/

Newsletter | Ted Goas
Ted Goas is a reliable product designer and front-end developer working on websites, applications, and HTML emails.
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So far I only have the tabs part of the Figma update and honestly I'm good we can just stop here.

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If you can't be a fan, don't be a critic.

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After 20+ years in design, it still feels great to code. Figma is great for so many things, but to be able to type a few characters and have the actual website / product reflect my changes... to this day, it still feels magical.

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Love moving Ai towards different UIs and away from text boxes.

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I’ve been a design manager for a year and I’m still figuring out if I like it. Some days I feel I’ve nailed mgmt and others I feel like a fraud If you have similar thoughts you’re not alone and you’re likely doing better than you think tedgoas.beehiiv.com/p/dont-like-job

I don’t like my job
Well, not every aspect of it anyway...
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I’ve been a design manager for a year and am still figuring out how much I like it. Some days I leave work feeling like I’ve nailed this whole management thing, and others leave me feeling like a fraud. More detail in today's newsletter: tedgoas.com/newsletter/

Newsletter | Ted Goas
Ted Goas is a reliable product designer and front-end developer working on websites, applications, and HTML emails.
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Last month I installed rollerblade wheels on my office chair. It makes moving around really fast and at first I was crashing into things daily. But after a few weeks I'm happy to report that I've mastered the ability to drift back and forth between my work and personal desks 🏆

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Who is using Sketch for UI design? (I love❤️ Figma just can't justify the cost for personal projects.)

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Got promoted to Product Designer Manager after a year of being a player / coach, can I get a hell yea from the chat.

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"Delight" is such a hard thing to define in design. It is animation? Visual polish? A new way of doing something? How do you define "delight" in design?