Tommy Geoco - How designers can bring their ideas to life
Dive Club 🤿10 Tammi 2024

Tommy Geoco - How designers can bring their ideas to life

In this episode we get to learn from Tommy Geoco who has launched countless projects, sold a startup, and built an audience of almost a million designers online. This conversation has everything—here’s a little taste of what you can expect:

- The wild story behind Tommy selling his first company

- Why design tools matter more than ever

- How to become better at selling yourself

- Tons of strategies for your next side project

- Tommy’s mental model for learning as a self-taught designer

- Why Tommy doesn’t care about being novel

- Ways to improve your “taste” as a designer

- Why Tommy acquired UX Tools (and his plans for it)

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