Jessica Gaddis is a Product Designer at Twitter that taught her way into the field. She worked at Netflix and did some pro-bono work too. Listen in on her secrets to learning:

6:30 How she discovered product design and started learning

13:38 Why she didn’t go to a bootcamp (but still used one)

19:28 Getting experience without a job

22:38 Product design is impossible without collaboration

23:56 Real-life design is different from those listicles

29:45 Process for kicking off her job search

33:14 The structure of tech company’s like Netflix teams

38:16 Finding peer mentors to make the first year easier

45:50 Difference between designing internally vs. for clients

52:40 What she would do if she was trying to break into product design today

54:35 What designers need to do in their first year of their career

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