How to get into design, UX, user research? What books, courses, methods and techniques should one apply? What uncommon tips can you give for one to progress quickest? – In this section, I’ll try to cover these and other questions junior designers tend to raise.
In this quick follow-up on the previous few episodes on UX job interviews, I’ll unpack a simple 4 category framework to help candidates in UX research, product design, or any other UX specialty prepare. Too often candidates struggle to come up with relevant and deep questions in the UX...
In this video, I’ll cover one of the key personal, professional, and experience design as craft pet peeves today: UX and product designers focusing on app design like it’s the only way to deliver good user experiences. Chances are your UX portfolio is also filled with apps as an...
Have you ever wondered if your UX portfolio and that UX case study are good enough to get the foot in the door? In this video, I’ll unpack a few principles that user experience, product and service design team managers like myself consider. The decision models when it comes...
If you’ve been following the UX review series, you probably already noted down several fundamental go-to’s that I tend to highlight in each video. These are based on the underlying principles that I as a hiring manager look out for in my UX job openings and the applicant UX...
These are the top 10 mistakes in the UX interviews candidates make. I’ll breeze through are super common and as a UX team and hiring manager, it saddens seeing how many people leave some things to chances. This is a must for any designer or user researcher who wants...
This short will be relevant to absolutely any UX designer or user researcher. I’ll cover the super simple approach to onboarding yourself into a new UX design project space that will allow you to set yourself up for success. As with everything the answer to assure that you perform...
This short will be relevant to absolutely any UX designer or user researcher. Understanding the fundamental decision making and thought processes your users make and help grasp user behaviour. The thinking fast and slow author Daniel Kahneman researched and summarised the thinking processes into 2 very simple, yet powerful...
In this latest installment of UX portfolio reviews, I’ll walk through the latest viewer UX portfolio submission. This time I’ll review and give quick improvement points to a junior UX designer who is in the process of a career change to UX design. Sometime back I asked my viewers...
A few months in the making, it’s time to launch our official Design Squad UX community on Discord. Previously I’ve shared a handful of invites to join our discord server to help test and shape the channels further. Around 100 people contributed and discussed all things UX: UX mentorship,...
In this short snippet, I’ll share a few points on empathy and its place in product and UX design. Because of evolution and devolution in UX processes over the years, there has been a lot of flavours of empathy in UX. You might have noticed people use empathy to...
The other day I helped one of the people I coach in UX to figure out how to easily assess between UX job offers they received. It came down to 3 root factors that I thought would also benefit any other growing or established designer who might find themselves...
In this recent highlight taken from the Get More Done in UX Design Livestream, I’ll walk through one of the most important process frameworks for any UX designer. Too many, especially growing designers, focus on the outputs and production on the deliverables instead of focusing on much more important...
In this recent highlight taken from the Get More Done for UX designers Livestream (part 2), I’ll walk through some of the easiest and most straightforward ways to become confident in UX. While presence, influence, and confidence in the way you interact with other people can be honed over...
My previous video on 13 UX job ad red flags resonated a lot and some of you have reached out sharing the insane job ads for product design, UX design and user research. One shared example took me aback in particular – a lengthy, jaded and outright insane spec...
In this quick video, I’ll cover one of the most requested topics recently – dealing with the take-home assignments during the UX interviews. While at the surface it seems like a simple request from the potential employers, where are a few things a designer or UX researcher needs to...
Continuing on the getting into UX, the UX job, and the design hiring intricacies topics, this time I’ll share some of the common red flags in choosing to apply for potential opportunities. UX job ads are probably the most important part of attracting the right talent for the hiring...