Kirill V
Kirill V
Father of 3. Designpreneur. UX @ Amazon.
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My thoughts, ideas, advice, and opinions on entrepreneurship and building businesses as a UX designer, UX career, travelling, and stuff.

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#7: UX Career: Weekly Digest

Years ago, before I went into UX, I was designing websites, and the hand-off process was rather unreliable (as I am analyzing it now). I would create png mockups for each page and give them to the developer.
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#6: UX Career: Weekly Digest

Every company is unique and there could be a number of reasons for seeking more senior designers to hire.
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#5: Weekly Digest

The ability to learn quickly, knowing the design process, evidence that you can deliver results and produce high-quality work working on a team are more important elements than knowing particular tools.
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#4: Weekly Digest

After getting to know different environments, my observation was that the larger the company the more specialized the roles tend to get.
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#3: Weekly Digest

Think for yourself. Everyone has a unique picture of how things work and function, and yours is as valuable as anyone’s.
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#2: Weekly Digest

I believe that resumes are not great to answer the questions that the hiring folks have in their head when they evaluate applicants. I think this is a pretty bad “deliverable” for this.
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#1: Weekly Digest

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Card Sorting [Archive]
UX Career

Card Sorting [Archive]

The main idea he is pushing is that card sorting limits you to choose only one single way of presenting the information.
Benefits of Prototyping [Archive]
UX Career

Benefits of Prototyping [Archive]

If used properly, the value of prototyping can be tremendous. If not, the insights can lead you down the wrong path.
Prototyping Definition [Archive]
UX Career

Prototyping Definition [Archive]

A prototype is supposed to help you save time and gain insights from your users faster, which makes it impractical to fully develop it, so some people can call it fake.
🙉 Noise-Cancelling System For Environment
Startup Ideas

🙉 Noise-Cancelling System For Environment

Street noise gets in the way. Why can’t we use existing noise-cancelling technology in spaces vs headphones?
🚰 IoT Water Quality Sensor
Startup Ideas

🚰 IoT Water Quality Sensor

People (in developed countries) assume their water is clean, which creates risk of drinking water with harmful chemicals.
🩻 AR Banners
Startup Ideas

🩻 AR Banners

Advertisers decide to pack as much information (text and graphics) as they can, which often results in poorly-designed banners with bad readability and lack of clarity.
🥡 Crowd-Buying Food Containers
Startup Ideas

🥡 Crowd-Buying Food Containers

For a small/midsize restaurant, the cost of the take-out food containers is higher than it could be.
📊 Affiliate Dashboard
Startup Ideas

📊 Affiliate Dashboard

If a person has multiple affiliate sales initiatives they have to log into each of their affiliate partner accounts to check their stats.
🧒 Kids Activities Platform
Startup Ideas

🧒 Kids Activities Platform

As a parent, it is a challenge to find new classes and sports programs to get your child into.
🧑‍🌾 Farmer’s E-market
Startup Ideas

🧑‍🌾 Farmer’s E-market

As a person who wants to eat healthier produce and other foods, it is a very manual and time-consuming process to find local farmers markets and go there to buy something.
🤝 Helping Others Platform
Startup Ideas

🤝 Helping Others Platform

As a person who wants to build stronger long-term relationships with other people in their professional network, one of the best ways to do this is by helping them with what they may need help with at the moment, without expecting anything in return.