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Design Career Ladders

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Our skill guide for design career ladders explains what a career ladder is, what the different levels in design are, how to make a career ladder for a design team, and 5 examples of design career ladders from Intercom, Zendesk, GitLab, and BuzzFeed.
  1. Learn Design Career Ladders with the Practica AI Coach

    The Practica AI Coach helps you improve in Design Career Ladders by using your current work challenges as opportunities to improve. The AI Coach will ask you questions, instruct you on concepts and tactics, and give you feedback as you make progress.
  2. What is the career progression for a product designer?

    These articles provide frameworks for how to think about product designer careers, and answer these questions: * What levels and titles are common across companies? What do they mean? * What are the skills and skill groups that exist specifically within product design?
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  3. How to Make a Design Career Ladder

    The Design Career Index shows that 71% of design organizations don't have a career progression framework. Lack of clarity in Career Development has been shown to be a key reason designers leave their jobs. To address this challenge, Helena Sao explains her process, decisions, and learnings throughout the process of building a career framework at DoorDash. Todd Zaki Warfel provides an alternative perspective from his experience at Invision on how to create career ladders and assess competencies.
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  4. Design Career Ladders From Leading Companies

    These examples can help you compare and contrasts what different companies have developed for their product design career ladders.
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