How Making This Redesign Of Facebook Changed One Designer's Life

His design went nuclear. Nerby says at minimum it's received 20 million views worldwide.

With such notice comes some perks.

Just twenty-four hours after his design went live, he says firms from around the world started reaching out to him. "I honest lost count after a couple of days," Nerby tells us over email. "Things changed drastically for me and I got invited to spend time overseas talking to a large number of companies and creatives within the digital space, both agencies and more product/platform based companies in the California region (Facebook being one of them) and also Australia, which has been fantastic!"

He wouldn't reveal much about his conversations with Facebook, other than he's not going to be working there. Instead, he says he took a job with a different firm, though he won't reveal where.

The lesson here: If you do good work, and it gets noticed, you can end up with a sweet new gig. It is a little bit of a needle in a haystack, but it's possible.