UX Portfolio Review: Making Effective UX Case Study with UX Research
Sometime back I asked my viewers if there's anyone who would like to get their UX portfolios reviewed and shared with the broader audience. While it must be daunting to put it out there, constructive feedback and specific pointers can make all the difference. I've received a few asks to review the portfolios and this video will mark the fourth request by one of the UX/UI and product designers from Spain. In this video, I'll cover a few of his cases and highlight some areas that might make it much more effective: UX case study and how to make it flow, showing more than telling, and other tips. More importantly, I'll share why user research powered UX case study will always trump the UI design and branding examples in the UX portfolios.
Would you like your UX design portfolio to be reviewed with constructive pointers? Drop me a line below or hello@vaexperience.com. Please be explicit that you are ok with me to share it in a video.
Imposter syndrome is a condition every growing person will face in their lives. The complex and messy field of user experience is no exception to it and everyone who's trying to get in or progress within their UX design career will struggle with it. In this video, I'll share a few thoughts and tactics on effectively dealing with it. As with everything in UX, the solution can only be found through a deep understanding of the root causes.
This is part 1 of the short series on dealing with self-doubt, fear and resulting Imposter syndrome.
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What should you add to your UX resume (for user research or UX design positions) if you have no formal, commercial, or business experience? There are at least a few things that people often overlook or forget to explain in a right way.
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In this short highlight video from the recent UX live stream, I'll share some thoughts on what juniors and entry-level designers in UX should focus on. While an approach might seem like an unpopular opinion, delayed gratification and focus on everything but the monetary reward is the way to ensure that you set yourself up for long-term success.
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?. I started this channel in 2018 to upskill my design team on user experience methods, rapid UX prototyping, service design, and more at a scale. Gladly the material I use is also relevant for other people across the globe (like yourself).
? Who am I: UX research and design team manager, experience design leader, strategist, and design educator. More: https://vaexperience.com
? Get in touch: quickest option - @va_experience on Twitter; also - hello@vaexperience.com. Note I try to respond to every email, however, given the time constraints it might take a while. The shorter, respectful and more specific the query the quicker the response!
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An insightful evening UX chat with a fellow design thinker, UX architect Sean McGuire. We talk billboard design thinking method, best practices, his top tips to handle difficult stakeholders and answer some of your questions. This is a must-watch for new and the experienced UX design and design thinking workshop facilitators.
Some of the topics we covered:
02:48 - What makes Billboard Design Thinking method so effective?
05:05 - How to make sure that running a UX workshop results in the right findings?
08:40 - Design thinking and agile
12:44 - How to convince business to run design thinking workshops
14:05 - Cultural differences in design thinking across the globe
16:04 - Driving the room
18:03 - How to make a billboard for Billboard Design Thinking workshop
20:44 - How to deal with difficult stakeholders during workshops
24:50 - Giving design workshop participants homework
26:28 - What to do after the workshop is done?
29:04 - When you design think ideas that are doomed to fail
33:34 - Desing Thinking for startups
36:34 - Design Thinking moderator should be the dumbest person in the room
41:10 - How to convince stakeholders to include users in UX workshops?
44:10 - Advice for new UX and Design Thinking workshop facilitators
48:56 - The future of Design Thinking
You can find out more about Sean McGuire and his billboard design thinking method by joining Sean's Linkedin group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8780360/
UX Chat is a videocast series with inspirational design leaders, where I try to dig what makes experience design practitioners effective. We will cover design thinking, new methods, design ops, UX, CX and many other topics.
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From time to time I get asked for feedback on different product design and user experience deliverables. Today it’s a mobile app UX/UI design for Votap on iOS.
Originally requested on Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-suggestions-to-improve-my-app-s-UI
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Episode 25: Illustrations for Product Designers and Startups
This week’s pick: Drawkit.io. A superb resource to find your next set of illustrations for brand new startup website or product. This resource contains masterfully crafted illustration sets, illustration design systems as well as animated kits. Best of all you can try it out by downloading a vast amount of fully editable (.svg) vector graphics to make it your own. Needless to say, this is a worthy resource to bookmark for any product, UI or UX designer: https://www.drawkit.io/
Note: we're not affiliated with the tool makers. It's just a great UX tool you should know about.
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I'll share some of the best picks I've encountered to date. You'll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools.
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Because we are constantly bombarded with a few success cases, the "boring" design challenges, projects, industries, and jobs are some of the most overlooked opportunities for growing UX researchers and designers out there. In this video, I'll unpack some of the principles and thoughts on why you must seek these opportunities out.
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