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Taking the Wheel of Your Design Career with Damian Martone

Taking the Wheel of Your Design Career

How do you use your design skills to improve your life?

There isn't much room for flexibility in a typical design career path. You’re supposed to start as a junior and work your way up on a linear path to manager. What if you want to design your own business or a side project?

In this talk, Damian Martone will share his unconventional career path and what he learned from going from designer to freelancer to founder of HATCH, a UX and design experts conference.

The talk will cover:

  • How to take a side-project into something that could pay your bills

  • How to plan ahead without being terrified

  • How to adapt to your experience and personality

In the talk, Damian provided a 50% discount for online tickets to HATCH on September 8, 2022

About Damian

Damian moved to Berlin from Argentina in 2013. He’s worked for companies like Kayak, Door2Door, and Lufthansa. Since 2016 he has worked as a freelance product designer, started an MVP-building agency, created a community for e-commerce merchants, and most recently, began HATCH, a hybrid conference for UX & design professionals. He’s also the creator and host of the Berlin Product Design Meetups in Berlin.

Damian’s Linkedin

About the Guild of Working Designers

The Guild of Working Designers is a group of designers working in the field, offering an opportunity to support, commiserate and activate one another. Designers in the guild build things for the real world. We turn ideas into reality. We don't just make things look pretty. We solve real problems.

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