Junior UX Portfolios: Top 3 Things You Must Get Right
I don't need you to tell how hard it really is to come up with strong UX design 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 about the top 3 things hiring managers typically look for in the portfolios. I decided to reframe this a bit to instead cover the three things that you must get right. These are fundamental and so are super relevant for all seniority levels.
Be sure to check out this video to better understand how hiring and design managers assess your UX portfolio here: https://youtu.be/AdWDjj01PlA
In this Livestream, we will discuss the key UX industry development themes and trends for the user-centric craft. The past couple of years have been brutal for tech careers, which is enough time for UX to transform into something different. This and many other topics are exactly what we will cover in this session. Tune in and let's hangout.
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Timestamps:
00:03:00 Intro and welcome to the stream
00:05:00 UX Project Challenge Brief to redesign commute based location finder app
00:10:30 Case 1
00:34:59 Case 2
00:58:53 Case 3
01:02:10 Competitive analysis vs actual user experience with competitor apps
01:05:00 How to pick the right fidelity for the UX prototypes (low fi vs high fidelity)
01:10:14 Proto-personas
01:12:09 Empathy mapping: why, when and how to use it?
01:14:10 How to pick the right UX tool, method or activity - there has to be a reason for you to run every UX activity
01:24:14 What entry-level UX designers need to focus on in their first 2 years
01:28:23 UX Mentorship
01:30:26 Get Into UX Book: A Foolproof Guide to getting your first user experience job
01:31:36 Case 4
01:52:12 For everyone who has missed this UX project challenge
Time for another Livestream - In this eighth UX project challenge instalment, I'll review 4! strong case study submissions from the viewers.
It's time for another UX design, user research, UI and prototyping challenge. The key aim in this challenge is for every designer who is currently struggling to come up with a good challenge and produce a case study for their portfolios.
UX background material/requirements sheet shared before: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lzl7_pQ=/
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Let the challenge begin!
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Welcome to the new series on Axure RP 9 prototyping: Axure RP - Noob to Master. Axure is a muscle tool for high-fidelity prototypes and killer UX design.
Session #18: Animating objects on scroll and card animation
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Session #99: What's New in Axure 10: Repeaters, Dynamic Panels and Forms
In this session, I'll walk you through the key new developments in Axure RP 10 - the recent update that just went out public. I'll showcase some of the most exciting bits: Axure UI facelift, a pleasure to work with dynamic panels, rediscovering Axure's best feature - repeaters, form and error states and many other bits. While the majority of the updates are usability focused, newcomer and seasoned product and UX designers will definitely get something out of these features.
Welcome to the new series on Axure RP 9 prototyping: Axure RP - Noob to Master. Axure is a muscle tool for high-fidelity prototypes and killer UX design.
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Episode 35: Coolest Color Palette Generator?
This week’s pick: Coolors. In the last decade, I've swapped quite a few colour scheme generators and apps. Most recently, I've discovered this super simple beauty - a tool that one can come up with great colour schema within minutes. I'm sure most UX, UI and product designers will find this refreshing.
Note: we're not affiliated with the tool makers. It's just a great UX tool you should know about.
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
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Episode 22: Design Principles
This week’s pick: Design Principles. A collection of almost 1500 of various design principles, maxims, cover values for what specific established experience design teams stand by. This is a web app/open directory for anyone to get inspired from some of the most well-known user-centred brands out there: just in the video, I've covered Gov.uk, Airbnb, Fjord and other awesome design principles. It's a perfect resource for new seniors, design managers and leaders who want to drive user-centricity within their immediate teams as well as wider organisations.
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
Note: we're not affiliated with the tool makers. It's just a great UX tool you should know about.
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Long in the making, the Get Into UX Book is finally out in the physical format. As you might be aware I tested the first version as an MVP through ebook format and have adapted the experience to paper experience. Make sure to watch the video why this book might be the one you've been needing to get unstuck and finally land that user experience job. This book was written to help entry, junior, career-change, senior and any other product UX designers and researchers to boost their potential and hack their way into this competitive field.
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Episode 23: Sitemap and User Flow Design System for Sketch
This week’s pick: Sitemap and User Flow Design System for Sketch. This is a super flexible and minimalist framework for any UX designer, architect and user researcher who needs to quickly put together user flows and sitemaps. Because of a variety of components (decision-making gates, labels, action points etc.), this design system can cover service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and other experience mapping efforts too. I recently started using it, and it saves a lot of time. If you are a Sketch designer, I'd highly recommend to check it out.
You can find the framework here: https://madebysidecar.com/products/sketch-sitemapping-user-flow-template
Note: we're not affiliated with the tool makers. It's just a great UX tool you should know about.
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
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