Preparing for layoffs as a designer

It’s going to be okay

Aaron Cecchini-Butler
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readNov 8, 2022

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Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash

The news of the layoffs at Twitter was tough. And I feel bad for the huge number of talented people who are now unemployed.

That being said, layoffs happen at companies of all sizes, all of the time. Companies are regularly trying to find budgetary equilibrium, and employees, at the end of the day, are a line item. A very expensive line item.

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Senior Systems Designer at Grubhub working on Cookbook (our design system) — as well as contributing to product design work.