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How to Build Your UX Career?

Tips from our guest speaker- Jan Mráz, the Co-founder & Head of Product Design at Atheros Intelligence.

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Feb 1, 2022
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Hello 👋, welcome to ADPList’s Weekly Pulse - a weekly newsletter dedicated to helping our community members to learn and grow together; with helpful design tips, upcoming group sessions, and community happenings.

🔥 Learning of the week:

How to build your UX Career? ✨

The learning of this week is shared by Jan Mráz- the Co-Founder of Atheros Intelligence in a past group session (Fundamentals of UX/UI Design Industry). In case you missed the session, or need to read on the go, here is a quick recap!

1. Build these soft skills

  • Patience - Learn and practice daily.

  • The will to work hard -Be ready to work hard and be active in searching for new trends, and more.

  • Communication skills - Expect to be working with teams whether you are an employee or a freelancer.

2. Own a Desktop/Laptop

  • Not all tasks can be done on a tablet.

  • Having a desktop or a laptop could help to support your tasks workflow efficiently.

3. Study and practice the 5 UX Design Process

  • Empathize: Understand your users better through user interviews, stakeholders interviews, surveys, data analysis, focus groups, competitor analysis, and customer journey maps.

  • Define: Define your design through empathy maps, user stories, personas, surveys, jobs to be done, and problem statements.

  • Ideate: Structure your idea through brainstorming, information architecture, user flows, card sorting, or mind mapping.

  • Prototype processes: Sketches, wireframes, Hi-Fi prototypes, mockups, and micro-interactions. You should start your UX Design journey with prototyping as this stage takes lots of practice.

  • Testing: Usability testing, SUS surveys, A/B testing, Analytics, and Eye-tracking. 

4. Build your Portfolio

  • Showcase your design process

  • Explain your case studies

  • Show how you can help the business grow. It is advisable to build your portfolio on your website.

5. Build your designer identity using social media platforms

  • Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Behance, or Dribble.

  • LinkedIn and Behance are the best platforms to find job opportunities and attract clients for future projects.


⚡️News Flash✨

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Top-rated Group Sessions:

Join this session to learn about design reviews and critiques. In this talk, Minjun will introduce the framework and share how we give or respond to critical feedback from cross-functional teams. Happening on Wednesday- 2 February 2022, 8 PM EST.

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Join Elsa’s fun workshop! Elsa is a Visual Designer, Adobe XD Ambassador, and ADPList Ambassador. In this workshop, she will be showing you how you can create fun and interactive microinteractions in Adobe XD. Happening on Thursday- 3 February 2022, 11 AM EST.

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Come to the first in a series of group sessions where Rachel, Yang, and Andrej talk about their experience designing for Web3. You'll also have an opportunity to ask them questions. Happening on Monday- 7 February 2022, 3 PM EST.

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📅 Happening this week

✨An Intro to Digital Accessibility - Tue 1 Feb, 3 PM (EST) (RSVP)
✨ Ask Coach Gloria: The Secret Sauce of Confidence - Thu 3 Feb, 1:30 AM (EST) (RSVP)
✨ Ask Me Anything about UX Research - Sun 6 Feb, 1 PM (EST) (RSVP)
✨ Breaking into service design (America regions) -Sun 6 Feb, 8 PM (EST) (RSVP)
✨ Hiring and growing a UX team from scratch -Mon 7 Feb, 2 PM (EST) (RSVP)

View all our upcoming group sessions

🦄This Week’s Quote✨:

“My promotion didn’t come when I was overworking myself. It came when I stepped back, slowed down, and focused on what I want.”

Rachel Miles
UX Strategist at IBM


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