⚡ The shifting job market and all the recent layoffs mean that now is a good time to think about your design career. Below are a bunch of helpful links on creating opportunities for yourself, crafting your design career, and some handy guides to identify leadership opportunities, help your team through burnout, and prepping for a job interview.

💪 Through all this, remember that even this experience through uncertainty will help you. Ambiguity and uncertainty are essential elements in a designer's career, and navigating through this time with resilience will stand by you for years to come!

🦫 Your Career

Have you ever had an idea that you wanted to be involved in and execute, but it never quite happened for you? Instead of asking for permission or waiting for opportunities to magically unfold before us, Kristy Tillman (Design Director for Society of Grownups, ex-IDEO) challenges us to make our own opportunities. How? By inviting yourself to the table.

5 ways to show you can lead — even when you don’t have a leadership role — ideas.ted.com

Just because you don’t have a title, that doesn’t mean you’re not a leader. Working on any team creates opportunities for leadership that you can take advantage of!

A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout, and Perfectionism — review.firstround.com

Uncertainty, burnout and perfectionism are holding teams back — Liz Fosslien is here to share tactical advice (and her signature witty illustrations) on how managers can help.

How to Craft a Fulfilling Career — insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu

The last few years have ushered in new ways of working that have made some of us feel uncertain about our present jobs: here are some practical tips for aligning your values with your work and crafting the right career for yourself.

What to do before, during, and after an interview — www.creativelivesinprogress.com

A cute and handy step-by-step guide to preparing for an interview.

🍏 Eye Candy

Cimbalom Circle by Design studio Daily tous les jours — designawards.core77.com

Winner of the Interaction Award in the Core77 Design Awards 2022, Cimbalom Circle is a series of musical tiles that create impromptu orchestras out of pedestrian choreographies.

Science, emotion and electronica fuse to form propulsive digital art — psyche.co

Max Cooper, who holds a PhD in computational biology, brings a keen eye for visual expression to his dazzling audio-visual work and collaborates with the most talented emerging online digital artists. It all started when he began to wonder how to bridge his interests in music and science, and many of his videos take a more technical approach, often featuring imagery born of real data visualizations.

‘Modern Women/Modern Vision’ Celebrates the 20th Century’s Most Influential Photographers — www.thisiscolossal.com

This show in Denver celebrates those who helped develop and define the genre as it grew throughout the 20th Century, and features Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Eva Besnyö, and Imogen Cunningham among others, showcasing their distinct aesthetics, politics, and styles.

🌿 Stay confident and stay inspired,

@soosixty & @jdallcaps