Design Table Podcast
από Nick Groeneveld, Tyler White
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Deep Design Skills Every Product Designer Needs in 2026
Deep Design Skills Every Product Designer Needs in 2026
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Get a seat at the table and build the design career you want. This podcast is for designers looking to break in, level up, and take control of their careers—whether you're freelancing, climbing the corporate ladder, or just trying to get noticed. Every two weeks, we dive into career fundamentals, design best practices, and the hottest topics in the design community.
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- Deep Design Skills Every Product Designer Needs in 2026 · 32 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 70Everyone says AI makes product designers ten times faster. So why does so much of what product designers create feel like the same copy-and-pasted template? Speed is one thing…
- 5 Signs You're About to Be Replaced as a Designer · 32 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 69Your manager asks you to build a design system. It feels like you're in demand and people appreciate your product design skills. Right?! Maybe. Or maybe it's the first step…
- Will AI Replace UX Designers? Vibe Coding and UX Jobs in 2026 | Feat. Danny Hope · 57 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 68Has any of the following ever happened to you? Your product manager shows you ten screens they vibe coded over the weekend. Or, and this is probably even worse, your CEO wonders…
- How a Product Design Director Uses AI to Explore 10 Ideas At Once · 37 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 67Design school taught us you should explore before you settle on a solution. In reality, most designers sketch two or three options, pick one, and hope nobody asks about edge…
- The One Way to Get Better at (And Still Enjoy) Product Design When AI Does Half the Work · 37 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 66Every designer wants sharper craft and better taste. But with the new tools generating close to all of your work, it's tempting to skip the design fundamentals entirely. I…
- The Best Way To Get Product Design Experience When You Have None · 29 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 65Junior product designers know what it is like. To get a job you need experience; and to get experience, you need a job. How do you break free of this annoying circle? The…
- Your Product Design Setup - How To Go From Idea To Live Prototype In Just a Few Clicks · 33 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 64Imagine you found a bug on your client's website. Back in the day, you'd have to get that issue on the agenda and agreed on before even starting to work on it. Today, Nick's…
- The Business Side Of Freelancing - How Nick Prices, Gets Paid, and Builds A Buffer · 25 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 63Nick's first freelance invoice was for six hundred euros, quoted with a straight face, even though he half expected the client to talk him down. In this episode of The Design…
- Design Quick Fire Round - Job Titles, Email Design, and Why AI Made Us Less Proud Of Our Work · 25 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 62Nick's biggest newsletter open rate was fifty percent when his list was small. Now that it's grown, he's happy with thirty, and neither of them can fully explain why. In this…
- Product Design Money Talk - How To Go From $50 To $95 An Hour Doing The Same Work · 24 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 61Nick's first freelance client paid him fifty dollars an hour. He said 'yes' before he knew what the market rate was, and it turned out to be exactly the right way to find out. In…
- I Got Fired Over Christmas And Nobody Told Me - Product Design Horror Stories · 29 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 60In 2015, Nick drove to an interview in his moms car. Three minutes in, the hiring manager told him he would never make it as a designer. 10 Years later, he loses his product…
- The 4 Skills Every Product Designer Needs Right Now (Figma isn't One of Them) · 34 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 59You can master every product design AI tool that exists and still get overruled in the meeting that matters most. That's because tools matter way less than what you read online…
- Is AI replacing designers? Not Really. There's A Bigger Danger · 33 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 58Someone on your team just built a landing page with Claude and skipped you entirely. It used to be a product designer's nightmare, but now... it is called 'Tuesday'. In this…
- 10 Things Companies Hiring Product Designers Want From You Right Now · 32 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 57Zero to one product design work. That's the main skill companies are hiring designers for right now. You'd expect Figma knowledge or being 'native' with the latest AI tools to be…
- Live Portfolio Review - Your Hero Section Is Costing You The Interview · 33 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 56Two seconds. That's how long you have before a hiring manager bounces off your portfolio. Most product design hero sections that time. In this episode of The Design Table…
- The take-home design challenge is broken. Here's how to survive it anyway. · 36 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 55Four hours of unpaid work. Seven rounds of interviews. And then a generic rejection email that reads like it was written by a robot. If you're hunting product design jobs right…
- Do you have to use AI to get a design job? (our listener asks) · 27 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 54One of our listeners wrote us while being stuck between two things: loving the product design craft and needing a job badly. He likes doing the actual product design work by…
- Is Everything You Design Already Copied? · 37 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 53Every product. designer has had this thought at some point: "Someone's already built this. Am I even doing anything original?" It creeps in during a login screen, an onboarding…
- You Are Not Behind: A Mental Health Check for Product Designers in 2026 · 31 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 52Every new product design AI tool feels like a deadline. You have to use it or you're left behind. That's what you read on social media at least. In this episode, Tyler and Nick…
- "Go Fix It Yourself" (The Best Thing A Senior Developer Told Me) · 37 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 51Product design is becoming more collaborative, more technical, and a lot harder to control. In this episode, Tyler and Nick talk about what happens when your design work stops…
