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🥶 10 Sobering Realities Every Brand-New UX Designer Needs To Accept
☝️ Excellent take on some of the main challenges and misconceptions of a UX career
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🥋 What makes a good designer
Being empathetic is good for any human, not just designers.
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📦 How to hand-off designs to developers?
Short answer: Discuss it with them and align on the right way together.
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🧞♂️ 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.
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🧰 Should you list all the tools that you can use?
Short answer: Unless you know only 5 tools, you shouldn’t =))
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🧑🔬 Do companies look for UX specialists or generalists?
Short answer: as with many things, it depends.
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👛 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.
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🧑🎨 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.
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🧸 How to add more projects to UX designer portfolio?
Short answer: work on your own project solving your personal pain-point.
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🏢 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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🏢 Design @ Amazon. Part 1 - Decentralised
This was my first “shock” when I joined Amazon in 2018. Thinking about this now, I understand why it is as it is. Do I think it’s perfect?
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🎙 New podcast episode
Sarah Donaldson is a gem! Lots of insights 🔥
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UX Talks Podcast - Josh Loh, Full list of published design team profiles.
Josh talks about his career journey and how he transitioned from engineering into UX. He speaks to the differences between working as a consultant and as a permanent employee.
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Why are companies low-balling you, Christopher Behr, The portfolio case study is broken, Design @ Clio
In this issue:
* ✍️ UX Career Q&A: Why are companies low-balling you.
* 🎙 UX Talks Podcast: Christopher Behr – Design Lead.
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Why are startups looking for more experience, how language shapes the way we think, Design @ Impala
🎊 Happy New Year, y'all! I hope you all had a marvellous holiday break and ready for new experiences and adventures in 2022!
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Why are startups looking for more experience, how language shapes the way we think, Design @ Impala
🎊 Happy New Year, y'all! I hope you all had a marvellous holiday break and ready for new experiences and adventures in 2022!
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Design @ Copperleaf, Developer hand-off, Contrast Figma plugin
I am trying to be as open as I can to the varied processes and tools that developers have and I try to tailor my hand-off process to my design artifacts “users”.
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Design @ Polyform, What makes a good designer, Spellchecker Figma plugin
Even though technically, you don’t have to feel empathetic for your users, and you can design stuff with just knowing the user-centred process and following it.