UX Career Playbook
🤑 Salary Negotiation
The market is changing regularly, and you do not want to ask for an outrageous number or miss out.
UX Career Playbook
UX Career Playbook
🪧 Whiteboarding Exercises
Many great designers shine during deep thinking time, and this is the opposite of that.
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😴 Take-home Design Tests
The majority of companies use these to measure candidates' design skills, and very few do it in a ethical way.
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🤝 Interview Etiquette
These tiny details may be that last bonus point that you may lose to another candidate.
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🗯️ Questions To Ask Interviewers
The questions you ask have a chance to earn you more bonus points with the interviewers or lose them.
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🙋🏼 UX Designer Interview Questions
Most of their questions (at the last and most intense stage) are behavioural
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💬 Interview Process
There are many varieties with additional steps, which sometimes increases the timeline to quite frustrating lengths.
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🗣️ Interview Tips
When you are starting, try to do as many interviews as possible.
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🗺️ Design Your Career
Treat this planning as a temporary "map" of the next few years and keep revisiting this to iterate and refine based on the current situation at the time.
UX Career Playbook
🧪 Personality Tests
Some employers believe in these and are interested to know what kind of personality a candidate has.
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🤩 How To Stand Out
Treat it as your unique strength. There is no other person in the whole world with the exact combination of those.
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🦄 Personal Brand
The only way to truly stand out and find your way is to crystallise your brand.
UX Career Playbook
🚀 Side Projects
My very first UX design case study was a side project. It helped me go through the whole process and share my thoughts.
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🔦 Portfolio Examples
Trends come and go, if you decide to ride a trend wave, chances are it will get outdated very fast.
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📑 Case Studies
The main interest is primarily your thinking and decision-making, and visual design is secondary. But...
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🍱 Portfolio Tips
I find lots of advice valuable, but keep in mind that some hiring managers may have different opinions (as humans usually do 😄)
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🤐 Hidden Job Market
Some companies have more favourable treatment of referred candidates, while others are fairer and do not give any extra points when evaluating talent.
UX Career Playbook
👔 LinkedIn Profile Tips
LinkedIn has become a monopoly in the corporate jobs world. It gets less and less usable, but it's still the major channel for finding a job.