v1.8 — JTBD, Branding, Design Crits Hub
7 April, 2025
New Surface Activity page: Jobs-To-Be-Done
A structured guide for understanding user needs by focusing on the progress they seek rather than just surface-level frustrations.
New Surface Activity page: Branding
Practical guidance on aligning branding principles with product design.
New Notion Templates:
- Brand Discovery Form: Form template to send out to potential clients or stakeholders to gain their input and craft a brand that meets expectations
- Brand Guideline Doc (Blank & Filled): Document that translates strategic decisions into clear branding principles before the design work begins
New Figma Template: Branding Guidelines
Premium template to professionally present all the core components, principles, rules and constraints behind a brand.
Figma Templates: Most of our Figma templates got a fresh new look, with visual tweaks and global fixes.
Design Crits Hub: We’ve revamped our design critiques section, now we have a straight to the point hub made of five pages on how to effectively tackle, facilitate and ace these focused sessions, learn how to present your designs decisions and master one of the most important skills for designers.
v1.7 — New Templates, GPT Prompts & more
9 November, 2023
New Notion Template: Folder & Tasks
New Approach page: Whiteboard Challenge
- 32 Challenge Briefs
- 10 GPT Prompts for Whiteboard Challenge
New Figma Templates:
- Whiteboard Challenge
- Speedy Wireframing
Figma Templates update:
- Mood board
- Style board
- Web/App Starter file:Typography Variables & more
- Global fixes
Resources: Added a Spotify Playlist with powerful beats for your workflow
v1.6 — More Templates, New website & more
9 November, 2023
We’ve got a brand new website 🥂
Added new Visual Design Principles pages:
- UI Essentials
- Figma Variables
Resources Hub: Added a Job Board for designers
Added new Approach page: Management
- Added new page: PM Documentation
Added new Notion Templates (blank & filled):
- Releases & Tasks (+ guide)
- Sprints, Projects & Tasks (+ guide)
- Project Scope Statement
- Proposal Doc
- Product Requirements Doc - PRD
Improved Figma/Figjam Templates:
- Starter File: Restored the style structure.
- Design Crit: Better feedback experience
Global fixes on the manual and Figma community templates
v1.5 — Revised content, Case study template & more
8 July, 2023
Revised content: highly enhanced most of the content across the entire manual including all the activities and heads-ups.
Added a New Notion Template: UXC Case Study
Aesthetics: Added custom covers for the three chunks pages, new covers for Notion templates, and icons to every table in the manual
Figma Templates: Added examples to most templates for an enhanced and seamless workflow experience.
Starter File Figma Template: Added Variables (Primitives & Tokens), and information about color psychology.
v1.4 — More examples, New Figma Templates & more
3 April, 2023
Activity Hub pages: Doubled/tripled examples (blue toggles)
New Figma & FigJam Templates:
- QA Testing Figma Template
- Design Crit FigJam Template
Knowledge Base: Added Feedback-driven Techniques
Global fixes on the manual and Figma community templates
v1.3 — Global improvements
6 January, 2023
Added new Approach page: Design Sprint
Added new Knowledge Base pages:
- User Psychology & Behavior
- Dark Patterns & Ethical design
Added new Resources in the hub
Improved Survey Questions templates
Figma Templates (community):
Web/App Starter file
Design Brief
Added styles & colors
Improved auto-layouts
Global fixes