Advanced Figma tricks, nightmare UX job, content design playbook

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Fabricio Teixeira

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3 min readMar 4, 2024

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“Just like so many times lately, I had turned my camera off, even though it was the department meeting with all my design peers and leaders. It was unusual for someone to turn off their camera during this call but I was burned out, had developed a social anxiety, and just couldn’t bring myself to show my face, let alone speak.

‘Where did it all go so wrong?’, I was thinking.”

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