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333: Writing an Effective Self Review

Podcast |: Design Details
Publisher |: Spec
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Design,; Interview,; Product Development,; Society & Culture,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Design,; Technology
Publication Date |: Feb 12, 2020
Episode Duration |: 00:36:24

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This week, we discuss the ins-and-outs of writing an effective self review: What should you talk about? How important is it? What does a bad self review look like? As always, we share our cool things of the week, this time including a new provider for Marshall's favorite esport, and a movie that is "cool" or...something.

Golden Ratio Patrons:

Sisu is looking for a thoughtful and data-savvy designer to help build the next generation of analytics software. You can find out more at sisu.ai. (You might recognize Sisu from our interview with Michie Cao)

Pathrise is an online mentorship program that you land a great UX job. Previous fellows have been placed at Google, IBM, Atlassian and other exciting companies. You can learn more at pathrise.com/details

Latest VIP Patrons:

Huge shoutouts to our latest Very Important Pixels!

Loukas Papantoniou
Wan Jung Hung
Ryan Koble
Billy Purdy
Michael Fitzgerald

Follow-up:

We don't hate XD, we just don't know how to use it!
Cal Rowston shared a very bad side effect of using the internet: every tiny thing you do has the potential to turn up in a background check.

Tweets:

Mukul Agarwal asked about how to specify responsiveness during developer handoff.
Big Al(ison) uses Design Details to keep company - that makes our day!
Samuel Bernhardt expects some juicy followup about the latest Figma Auto Layout updates. Tl;dr: things are better, but not perfect.
Sahil Chaturvedi can't stop thinking about how good Parasite is. Us too!
Krishan has a theory about why we're seeing more tweets to @designdetailsfm, and it makes a lot of sense 🤔 It might have something to do with what we said in our 2020 resolutions episode.

News:

Figma Auto Layout added certain constraint support. It's a big win, but still not perfect. Either way, we're happy!
- Marshall also has a challenge for you!
Figma's first conference, Config (aka figCon Copyright© 2020 Marshall Bock) was a lot of fun. If you have a chance to go in the future, we recommend it.

Listener Question:

Kevin Gutowski asks: "What do you think of self assessments? Do you do them at your current job? How often do you do them? What do they look like? What are some of the questions that you answer? Are they a part of how you can get a raise? What makes a good assessment experience or a bad one? I wanna know the deets so I can compare notes."
- We talked about performance reviews in episode 279 over one year ago.
- Brian has also tweeted about self reviews with his framework for writing them.

Cool Things:

Brian shared 6 Underground, a not-that-great movie that he lasted 20 minutes watching. How far will you make it?
- Joel Califa + replies felt similar.
Marshall shared that Overwatch League is headed to YouTube Gaming! The new season has started, and YouTube's live features allow for DVR-like rewind and pause, making it much easier to keep up with the games.

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