This Overlooked Design Skill will Accelerate your Growth

How to achieve results an order of magnitude above others

As a design lead, I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates for visual, product, UX, UI, and interaction design positions. Of all of the candidates, there is one skill that is always present in successful ones — and that’s the ability to critically conduct a retrospective on your work post-shipping. It sounds straightforward, but roughly 70%+ of the candidates I’ve interviewed have never mentioned it. They either have no inclination to do it, aren’t aware of it, or simply implement it incorrectly. It’s the one skill I wish I cultivated sooner in my own career, instead I ran around bumping my…

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