built by @louyi.ux — receipts on remote design career building
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💡 How to use this page: Duplicate it to your own Notion (top right → Duplicate). Then work through one skill at a time, check the boxes as you go, log your progress, come back when you need a kick. This is a tracker, not a TED talk.
I'm a self-taught senior product designer. No degree. Fully remote. I figured out the hard way that the thing keeping juniors stuck isn't their Figma skills, it's everything around the design work.
These 5 skills are what got me hired senior and what's keeping me there in 2026 while AI is eating half the junior pipeline. They're not glamorous. They're not "10 Figma plugins you need." They're the actual leverage.
Work through them in order if you're starting from zero. Skip ahead if you already know what your weak spot is.
Ready? Check the box. Let's go.
Tick these off as you complete each skill. Don't lie to yourself, half-doing it doesn't count.