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#9: UX Career: How to research potential employers?
I’ve been through many interviews and did A LOT of research on potential employers.
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#8: UX Career: What I am changing in 2021, and What makes a good designer?
Do yourself a favour and sit down for 30 minutes to recollect and write down all the good things that 2020 brought you. Appreciate what you have.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.