Projects
🕵️ UX Inspector - usability analysis for e-commerce companies [2017]
Even though many usability experts have done dozens of great research studies identifying design best practices that help improve the user experience, the number of easily resolvable UX issues is mind-boggling.
Projects
🎁 Obrigado - personalized gifts for realtors' clients [2017]
Real estate agents realize the value of investing in their client relationships, and many of them do this by showing their appreciation with gifts.
Designpreneurship
🗜️Drilling Startup Tools - reviewing startup tools and systems [2018]
Many startuppers procrastinate starting a business because they don’t know what tools to choose for their needs.
Projects
🥽 Get Prototyping Academy - educational resource for digital prototyping [2017]
One of the most common causes for their failures and challenges is that they wait too long until they start testing their products with users.
Projects
💔 Got Let Go - tracking layoffs in tech companies [2016]
I started noticing more and more headlines about startups’ layoffs. It was hard to see the real situation, so I wanted to understand if it was an alarming trend or just too much buzz in the media.
Projects
🧧 Benefitus - crowd-buying of health benefits for independent professionals [2015]
One of the biggest disadvantages of being a contract employee is that they don’t get extended health benefits like permanent employees do.
Projects
🍔 Evil Foods - health ratings for food ingredients [2018]
What if there was a mobile app that could scan the UPC code of a product and give you a verdict on whether the product is “evil” or not?
Projects
🎪 Geeky Events - a directory for discovering cool events around the world [2014]
One of the best ways to learn and grow your network is to attend conferences, workshops, training, and other professional events.
UX Career
🥋 What makes a good designer
Being empathetic is good for any human, not just designers.
UX Career
📦 How to hand-off designs to developers?
Short answer: Discuss it with them and align on the right way together.
UX Career
🧞♂️ Why many startups look for experienced designers?
They don’t have the time and resources to train/onboard new designers, and want them to start rolling from day 1 and own it.
UX Career
🧰 Should you list all the tools that you can use?
Short answer: Unless you know only 5 tools, you shouldn’t =))
UX Career
🧑🔬 Do companies look for UX specialists or generalists?
Short answer: as with many things, it depends.
UX Career
👛 Why companies low-ball candidates?
Short answer: they don't get the value, account for bargaining, have limited budget, or you didn't show your true value in the interviews.
UX Career
🧑🎨 Should I use creative or standard resume as a UX designer
Short answer: standard, but clean and easy to scan, potentially with minor creative elements for the surprise and delight effect, not cluttered and messy.
Newsletter
🧸 How to add more projects to UX designer portfolio?
Short answer: work on your own project solving your personal pain-point.
Newsletter
🦗 Sorry for the silence...
Finally, we moved to our permanent apartment 🚚. Now, we live in a different town (more like a civilized village 🤭)
UX Career
🏢 Design @ Amazon. Part 2 - Diverse
Amazon is huge AF. There are certain pros and cons because of its sheer size and reach. One of my favourite pros is its diversity, diversity of everything.
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