We’re forty editions in, and firstly, thank you for being here. Thank you for reading, replying, sharing, and sticking with this project. It feels like a small milestone worth marking.

Over the past few months we’ve explored skills, mindset shifts, hiring insights, and the small habits that make a big difference in a design career.

Before we move the newsletter to its new home, I wanted to pause, look back, and highlight a few lessons that have stuck with me and hopefully with you too.

Edition 32: Competence, Confidence & Humility

When you’re in interviews and throughout your career, it’s important to show the people you work with that you have confidence, competence, and humility. When these fall out of balance, things can quickly go wrong but when they work together, they create a designer others trust and want to work with.

Edition 27: Skills Hiring Managers Value

Time management, communication, and attitude might not be flashy, but they’re what hiring managers really look for. Being reliable, organised, and easy to work with often matters more than your tools or your style.

Edition 25: The Perfect First Job Doesn’t Exist

Your first job doesn’t define your career, it starts it. It won’t be perfect, and it doesn’t have to be. What matters is getting moving, building experience, and learning from real work.

Edition 21: Insights from Daniele De Vecchi

Great ideas come from conversations. Daniele’s advice was simple but powerful: talk to people, ask questions, stay curious, and don’t be afraid to say something wrong. Connection builds careers.

Edition 35: Using LinkedIn to its Limits

LinkedIn is one of the strongest tools you have as a designer. It’s not about going viral, it’s about being visible. A clear profile, smart activity, and a bit of consistency can open opportunities you didn’t expect.

Hired in Design is moving to Substack

Kit has been helpful, but it’s time for something cleaner and easier to grow with. Substack will give us:

• A better reading experience
• A proper archive for past editions
• Cleaner layout
• Comments and community tools
• A writing environment that feels good to use

Nothing changes for you, I’ll move your subscription across, and from next week onwards, all editions will come from Substack.

The Move

What’s one lesson that’s stuck with you this year?

Reply and let me know.

Thanks for being here.

See you next week!

Tom​
​Hired in Design

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