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 fourth video, and as mentioned in the previous session I have a special guest who is a user for one of the most loved (and hated) products from Amazon family – Goodreads; As a reader and a user, our guest will help me map the key journey...
This mini-series of videos on experience and UX journey mapping has been in the books for over the year! it’s time to bring it to live and quickly introduce and upskill those who have not to approach UX design with a discovery mindset (and methods). Journey mapping with adequate...
This week’s design tool pick is not really a product and UX design tool, but a method. I’ll showcase a powerful daily practice that will train your proverbial idea muscle. Like with any other skill ideation and coming up with the best new thing can be enhanced by repetition....
There are some questions that entry and junior level UX designers and researchers ask repetitively. One of these is definitely to do with the recent boom in product design and UX bootcamps. These intensive courses offer to teach UX as a craft in a matter of weeks. Some also...
This week’s Design Tool Tuesday is atypical. Instead of covering a specific tool and its benefits, I’ll cover one of the burning challenges in the UX community: gathering enough strong material to make UX portfolio case studies shine. Using the product design challenge ideas I’ll share some tangible actions...
It might be tad ballsy to say that every one of UX designers (let’s bunch all designer types in this one) will experience difficulties in their projects and potential burnout. I’ve been there several times myself. What helped me is understanding why we tend to experience this and what...
This week’s pick: An Human-Centered Design kit from Ideo. This is a set of methods, thinking principles and case studies that been transformative in my own experience design and UX development. It’s also a set of tools I recommend every designer to refer to regularly, especially when it comes...
I don’t need you to tell how hard it really is to come up with a strong junior UX portfolio, especially if you only got a UX Bootcamp or a few months (even years, really!) of commercial experience under your belt. Recently one of the viewers reached out asking...
Sometime back I asked my viewers if there’s anyone who would like to get their UX portfolios reviewed and shared with the broader audience. While I understand it must be daunting to put it out there, constructive feedback and specific pointers can make all the difference. By complete accident...
Making a UX Portfolio is one of the biggest challenges user researchers, product design, and user experience professionals face. While most material you find online covers how to structure the UX case studies and make your portfolio stand out, rarely do senior designers mention one critical bit – the...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: Before covering what’s next, let’s first look into the past year or so to better understand the underlying themes then it comes to design, tech and customer experience. The real MVP...
I keep receiving the question of choosing the right UX portfolio platform way to often to ignore. Whilst I believe that a simple PDF or a WordPress blog turned UX portfolio is enough to get a job within the field, having a public site with living content can help...
In this video, I’ll share #1 tip to any UX designer’s career progression: Showing your work, sharing of the raw process, showcasing how the sausage is made rather than focusing on the packaged up deliverables. Depending on your seniority showing your work could mean adding more contextual design information...
Coming up with great first UX case studies for your UX portfolio (junior or senior) is a daunting task. Having reviewed hundreds of portfolios over the years, I can see the same mistakes across a variety of UX specialities and seniority levels. In this video, I’ll give you a...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: I’m not going to tell you again how important it is to get a perspective and routine to maintain the positive mental outlook on things, as that was last month’s topic....
You’ve asked for it: UI gamification is this Axure UX prototyping challenge theme. The rules are simple – you get a high-level product design brief and simple scenario. The rest is up to you: UX research, UX exploration and UI fidelity, visual expressions, interaction design methods and prototype depth…...