Free LinkedIn career lessons carousel template
Lessons From Years
“X lessons from Y years”: a giant italic numeral per lesson, the year it was learned, and a question to close. Aubergine and peach in Fraunces and Karla.
- Platform
- Size
- 1080 × 1350 (4:5)
- Slides
- 7
- Price
- Free
Opens in the editor: describe your topic and AI rewrites every slide in this design, or edit it yourself.
What’s on the slides
- Slide 1
2014 → 2026 · product design
12 years in design. 5 lessons I’d tattoo on my younger self.
Learned the expensive way, at four companies and one failed studio.
- Slide 2
Learned 2015
Nobody reads your deck. They read your first slide.
Put the decision you need on slide one. The other 20 are an appendix.
- Slide 3
Learned 2017
Taste is just reps you didn’t skip.
I redrew the same checkout flow 40 times that year. That’s where my eye came from.
- Slide 4
Learned 2019
Ship the ugly version on Tuesday.
Real users in week one taught me more than the three polished months that came before.
- Slide 5
Learned 2022
Your manager is a user. Design for them.
A two-line weekly update got me promoted faster than any portfolio piece.
- Slide 6
Learned 2025
Leave rooms where you’re the smartest one.
My studio failed partly because I hired people who agreed with me. Never again.
- Slide 7
What’s the lesson you paid the most for?
Drop it below. I’ll collect the best into a part two.
How to use this LinkedIn template
- Open it in the editor with “Use this template”. No install.
- Make it yours: type your topic and let AI rewrite every slide in this design with matching photos, or change the words, photos and colours yourself.
- Export at 1080 × 1350 (4:5) as a PDF for a LinkedIn document post, and post.
