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.
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I’ve worked with a variety of great designers: from apprentices to directors, niche artists to jack-of-all-trades. As a team lead, I’ve also vetted resumes and interviewed design candidates, some of whom sounded great on paper but fell flat in reality. In fact, I probably fell flat too sometimes. Looking...
In this video I’ll take one key takeaway from Articulating design decisions (in user experience, lean and product design-development context), which I wish I could have gotten back in the day. During my career development as UI, Product designer and then UX designer and design leader I learned through...
Non-disclosure agreements and UX portfolios is one of the trickiest parts of any UX and product designer work. If you work on sensitive intellectual property work you almost never allowed to showcase it. This is one of those things that designers tend to either cover up with private portfolios...
Rightfully, most UX and product designers tend to focus on their technical skills, case studies. That’s definitely a must. Yet, the issue I see looking at countless of resumes and design portfolios is lack of personality or general dullness. Fact is, any hiring manager will look for team and...
If you want to get into experience and product design you’ll need a starter UX portfolio. This tends to be challenging for the beginner designers who might have just taken a few courses with mostly theoretical knowledge. In this video I’ll walk you through key steps on how you...
I get asked this question waaaaaaaaaay too often. And rightfully so, because people who are just starting out want to know if those readily available learning options are worth it. Let’s face it: you have a handful of options to pick from: Interaction Design Foundation, General Assembly, CareerFoundry, Udemy etc....
I get a lot of requests to cover the process of creating an effective UX portfolio. This time I’ll cover key principles and steps to creating powerful UX case studies. Some designers think that portfolio, be it product design or UX has to look good. In reality, a portfolio...
If you’re a UX designer you’ve probably encountered people who can’t really put a finger on what UX really is. Personally, it’s tough explaining what UX is about. If I need to give a short pitch on UX I either default to digital transformation, product/service strategy or simple marketing...
If you just started or are considering getting into UX design and User research, here are 4 solid reasons why NOW is the right time to make that career move.
Have you seen one of those job ads on Linkedin that go something like: “looking for a UX developer...”, “designers who can code, respond…”, or an ad about looking for a product designer with extensive knowledge in HTML5, JS, React etc?
In this overexposed and noisy video I’m going to walk you through the 3 kings of UX portfolio platforms. Depending on why you need a portfolio in the first place you might choose to go with one instead of the other. Perhaps all of them:
A few days ago I covered some of the key roles in experience design industry. Yet, I still frequently get asked what’s the difference between senior and lead designers? What does it take work as junior or apprentice designer? What do heads of design do? and many more seniority...
In this video I’m going to go through the key titles/roles in experience design (UX, XD) today: UX designer generalist Service designer Customer experience designer User researcher UX strategist Content strategist UX Copywriter Product designer (UX/UI) UI designer Graphics/visual designer UX architect Interaction designer UX engineer and one bonus...
So how does one get into UX and lands their first job with little to no experience? This is one of the most common questions I keep on answering online. I’ve scribbled some material on getting started here and here before, however the question keeps on popping up. Without...
The other day one of my designer friends asked me if I have any good books to recommend. He’s a junior designer who just recently got into reading. Just like more experienced designers he realized that the timeless wisdom can be discovered within pages. Furthermore, like myself he wears many hats daily....