Nick Blanche

Still a bit of a work in progress, but I'd love your feedback. Let me know your thoughts. nickblanche.com #newportfolio

Who are the best designers to follow in the AI space right now? Who’s doing cool stuff?

@Spotify is there any way to get your DJ to stop putting me on blast for skipping songs?

Heya 👋 I’m looking to deepen my understanding of how design impacts business metrics. If you—or anyone you follow—writes, works, or is passionate about this space, I’d love to connect! Who should I be following? Who’s doing great work in this area? Let me know! 🙏🤗

What’s the thing that helped you improve most as a product designer? What experience, mentor, course, book, articles, YouTube channel, etc etc help you the most?

@vponamariov TIPS

I've compiled my top 30 tips 🔥 If you want to become better at UI/UX every day, Like and comment "TIPS" and I will DM you to count you in.

Building product is hard isn’t it. There’s gota be a better way!

@Dominic__CRO File

The #1 reason big brands are profitable is Conversion Rate Optimization Their custom landing pages generate millions of $$$ So I made a swipe file with 20+ high-converting landing pages Like & Comment "File" and I'll send it (Must be following)

@thepixelgeek Do it dude!

Tomorrow will be the first time in my 20 year career where my full time employer/boss is myself. This is such a strange experience for me. I'm thinking of doing a #buildinpublic type of vlog on my YouTube channel. Should I do it and would it be interesting to you?

Imagine having the audacity to mix peanut butter and jam for the first time. That person was wild!

After a 7-year run I'm on the job market. I was unfortunately part of a layoff at Headspace. Although I'm not in a rush, I'm excited to have conversations and plot out my next move. Looking for Lead/Principal Product Design IC roles. Wanna chat? Shoot me an email: f@francoisbach.com

All of these dorky masculinity accounts talk about struggle & 24/7 hustle and whatnot. They never stop to consider that the most masculine thing you can do is build a life where you spend more time with your spouse and kids.

Anyone got any good podcasts on what building good product looks like?

@thepatwalls Great read, thanks for sharing Pat!

Cringe alert. Nearly 10 years ago I took this embarrassing selfie. It was my first day in corporate America. I woke up at 6AM, put on a very uncomfortable suit and snapped this photo. I was so excited about my big new career. “I made it.” I’d spent over $200K and thousands of hours for this moment (4 year degree). But within 8 hours, I realized I’d made the biggest mistake of my life. Here was the reality of that “career”: - Working 80 hour weeks - Doing meaningless work to create more billable hours - Happy hour every night with people you don’t even like - Begging your boss to leave at 8PM on a Friday That day, I knew I had to change something. But I was scared sh!tless thanks to the “sunk cost fallacy”: - I’d already invested $200K - I’d spent thousands of hours in the library studying for this - I’d spent 4+ years attaching my personal identity to this career. What would people say if I threw all of that away? The problem with “careers” is that we invest so much into them before we know if we’ll truly love the work. And this sunk cost fallacy only gets worse the longer you let it fester. The next 5 years after this selfie were not pretty... I jumped from job to job and career to career, hoping that I’d find the “career for me”. Never did. After 5 more years I realized that no “career” would ever fulfill me. And that’s what led me to starting my very first side project starterstory.com. In a matter of days, I realized entrepreneurship was the only “career” with no limits. Endless challenge and endless possibilities. There is no ceiling. It’s not for everyone, but it’s the game I want to play for the next 60 years.

Accurate

Not sure if anyone uses Snapchat anymore, but it use to be so easy and any time I open it now days I get so lost 😞 Granted I could just be old.

Any designers out there still drawing rectangles and using them for alignment and spacers in their work?

Believe in yourself and good things will start happening.

It takes discipline not to insist on doing everything yourself.

Who’s done a really good product course recently? - Product design - Product strategy If you have, what was the course and what made it good in your opinion?

It's not the lack of intelligence, it's the lack of focus that is stopping you.