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Tyler White | ROI of Design

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Your work shipped. Nobody knows what it earned.
I help product designers prove the ROI of design.
Start with the 15 Minute Case Study.

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Happy 4 year anniversary😍 by @mrtylerwhite

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3 years ago

Funnel analytics for SaaS, finally visual.

After 15 years of clunky dashboards in Mixpanel and Google Analytics, I built the view I always wanted. Every step from first click to paying customer, with the conversion rate at each one.

Plug in your numbers and it ranks the fix worth the most money, from landing pages to onboarding emails. Signups, activation, LTV and CAC on one screen.

It's a free Claude skill. Comment FUNNEL and I'll send it to you.

https://www.mrtylerwhite.com/funnel-simulator/

#saas #productdesign #growthmarketing #startupfounder #claudeai by @mrtylerwhite

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6 hours ago

There are two kinds of designers. The artist designer, all white space and stylish type. And the builder designer, the one who also touches code and ships things. The real difference isn’t skill. It’s what keeps you moving.

I learned HTML, CSS, and PHP in a course at Herzing before I ever had a design job. That gave me the tools. What made me a builder designer was what came after: Smashing Magazine, Team Treehouse courses, anything that kept me current, because I never wanted to just design what’s cutting edge. I wanted to build it. That’s how I ended up doing both coding and design at my first job while the engineers handled the backend. I thought that was just how the job worked. Took a new job and a few years to learn most designers don’t operate that way. I’d been in a bubble, and the bubble was the mindset, not the skill set.

Four and a half years in, the itch came back. CSS3 and HTML5 were taking over and I didn’t want to fall behind, so I told my employer I wanted to leave. He offered more money to stay. An artist designer takes that deal. A builder designer can’t, because money doesn’t fix the actual problem. Our architecture wasn’t evolving. We were still supporting Internet Explorer 6. I wasn’t chasing a bigger paycheck. I was chasing something new to build.
You can keep an artist designer with money. A builder designer needs something to build, or they’re already looking for the door.

#productdesign #uxdesign #designcareer #buildermindset #careergrowth by @mrtylerwhite

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2 months ago

Your Hero Section Is Just the Setup #productdesign #uxdesign #figma #designcareers #designpodcast by @mrtylerwhite

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2 months ago

I refuse to take design take-home challenges.

You’re asking for hours of my time. Unpaid.

If I don’t get the job, that’s not a learning experience. That’s a lost investment.

Because you’re shit at qualifying employees any other way.

The test measures whether I can disappear into a tunnel and come out with a shiny deliverable. Alone.
That’s not the job.

The job is talking to stakeholders. Doing the research. Getting feedback rounds in before you ship, not after.
Nobody hands their team a surprise.

One process tests if you can perform design in a vacuum. The other tests if you can actually do the job.

If your hiring process only rewards the first one, you’re not hiring designers. You’re hiring people who are good at homework.

#DesignCareers #UXDesign #ROIofDesign #HiringDesigners #DesignLeadership by @mrtylerwhite

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3 months ago

Someone asked me if giving free trial users access to features outside their plan is a dark pattern.
It’s not. It’s just good business.
Here’s what designers get wrong about pricing pages. They think the page is the whole job. Three cards, a popular tag, done.
But every pricing page looks the same on the surface. What makes it work happens on the back end.
Say plan A doesn’t include webhooks. Plan B does. Someone signs up for a plan A trial.
During the trial, you let them touch the webhooks anyway.
Is that bait and switch? No. You built that feature. It has real value. You’re showing them what they’re missing, not hiding what they paid for.
There’s a sunk cost to build a feature. There’s a break even point. And then there’s revenue.
Showing the value of what you’ve invested in isn’t a trick. It’s the whole point of building it.
The dark pattern would be the opposite. Burying a feature so nobody ever sees what they’re missing, so nobody ever upgrades.
Your pricing page is just the gate. What happens after someone walks through it is where the real design work lives, and that has to be tailored to your customer base, not copied from a template.
Where’s the line for you between smart upsell and dark pattern?
#ProductDesign #SaaS #UXDesign #PricingStrategy #DesignROI by @mrtylerwhite

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3 months ago

Here’s the Instagram version — tighter, hook-first, built for the caption format:
Your save button might be quietly wrecking the experience. Ours was.
Users clicked “save” expecting to save their progress. Instead it kicked them out and pushed them to the next step. So they’d go back in, edit, save, get kicked out again.
Over and over.
The old way to catch this: weeks of back and forth with a business analyst digging through data.
The new way: I connected Claude to GitHub and Mixpanel’s AI agent and asked it to pull the tags and show me the high volume flows.
It came back with way more edit events than create events, almost no time between them.
That gap was the signal.
People weren’t editing because they loved the screen. They were editing because they got kicked out before they were done.
The fix wasn’t a redesign. It was a “save progress” button and a copy change on the one we already had.
Three or four sprints of investigation, done in half a day.
The best AI workflows for designers aren’t the flashy demos. They’re the boring stuff — connecting the dots between data you already have so you stop designing on assumptions.
Full story in this episode of The Design Table Podcast. Link in comments.
What’s a “small” fix in your product that’s actually saving you way more than it looks like?
#productdesign #uxdesign #aiindesign #designleadership #uxresearch by @mrtylerwhite

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3 months ago

Half of the “I’m falling behind” feeling in design isn’t real. It’s manufactured.
Someone posts “I don’t even need this anymore, look how fast I am.” That’s not helping you. That’s a pace you never agreed to run.
You see it. You panic. You go find the same tool. Not because you needed it. Because you didn’t want to be the one still doing it the old way.
That’s not FOMO. That’s peer pressure with a UI.
Most of that flex is social media, not signal. It’s not your manager. It’s not your roadmap. It’s a feed built to make “behind” feel permanent.
The designers earning their seat at the table aren’t chasing every new tool the week it drops. They know why the tool they’re using solves the problem in front of them.
Are you adopting tools because they solve a real problem, or because someone bragged about dropping the old one?
Pair with the clip.
#ProductDesign #UXDesign #DesignCareer #DesignTablePodcast #AIinDesign by @mrtylerwhite

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4 months ago

Design does not end when the file gets handed off.

The real work happens in the messy middle.

Talking through edge cases.
Checking the build.
Catching the small details before users do.
Making sure what shipped actually matches the intent.

That’s why collaboration and visual QA matter so much.

Because a great design in Figma means very little if the final experience feels off in production.

Designers, developers, and product teams all need to stay close until the thing is actually live.

The handoff is not the finish line.

It’s where the quality work begins. #ProductDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #VisualQA #DesignQA by @mrtylerwhite

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4 months ago

I hate hustle culture. But I love monk mode.

There are seasons where you need to go quiet, cut the noise, and actually take the thing seriously. Not forever. Not as your personality. Just long enough to build the skill, earn the reps, and prove to yourself that you’re committed.

That was me during my second design program. Barely talked. Stayed late. Did the work. Extreme? Maybe. But sometimes the season you’re in requires a different version of you.

#ProductDesign #DesignerLife #CareerGrowth #MonkMode #CreativeProcess by @mrtylerwhite

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4 months ago

Everyone’s trying to skip the design phase and jump straight into vibe coding.

I’ve tried.

A lot.

The problem is the code isn’t the hard part.

The hard part is figuring out what you’re actually building.

You still need to understand the user.
You still need to understand the problem.
You still need to decide what success looks like.

AI can generate screens.

It can’t tell you which screen matters.

The more I use AI, the more I realize the design phase didn’t disappear.

It just moved upstream.

#ProductDesign #UXDesign #VibeCoding #DesignThinking #AI by @mrtylerwhite

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4 months ago

The difference between 97 and 100 is usually ego.

That one misaligned icon. That tiny UI bug nobody else noticed. That prototype recording you restarted 25 times because one spacing detail looked weird.

Designers have this internal defect detector that never shuts up.

Sometimes it makes the work better. Sometimes it’s the reason the thing feels polished, intentional, and actually designed.

But sometimes it’s just a gremlin in your brain convincing you that 3 pixels are worth ruining your night over.

The real question is not whether designers should care about details.

Obviously we should.

The question is whether this detail is worth the cost of caring.

New episode of The Design Table drops tomorrow.

#ProductDesign #UXDesign #DesignPodcast #Designers #TheDesignTable by @mrtylerwhite

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