When I was stating as a User Experience Designer, I came across an ocean of UX Job Titles. I was confused. There were -

UX Designer, Product Designer, Visual Designer, Digital Designer, Interaction Designer, UX researcher, Content strategist, UX Unicorn (Yep, I’m not kidding about this job title!)

And how do I level up if the demands of the role keep changing constantly?? 🤯

But here’s the thing…

The titles are often just a vanity thing and they’re not what you should be focusing on

What you should be focusing on and what helped me out was “Career Tracks”

This method of going through career “tracks” isn’t only for UX Designers but for anybody!
Regardless of the role and the industry, there are two career tracks that you can…

I’ve written about what user-centred design is a lot of times. For fun, here are some things that it is not.

User-centred design is not

…3 people editing the same Figma document.

…having post-its on your desk.

…putting a survey on the homepage.

…a new CMS.

…having a design system.

…having a content designer.

…having a service designer.

…having a UX designer.

…having personas.

…asking colleagues if they can think of any usability issues.

…asking colleagues what they think of the prototype.

…recruiting real users (yay!), but then asking them what they think of the prototype – instead of asking them to complete tasks and observing any usability issues. …

UI Design Tutorial

Glassmorphism is a visual design trend noticed in late 2020. It is not an entirely new thing because we already have seen UI that use glass material years ago, with Windows Vista.

Nowadays, designers started to use glass wisely in an attractive and usable way. Good examples of UIs that use glass are Apple’s iOS, macOS and Fluent Design System by Microsoft.

Creating Glassmorphic Elements…

If you would like to create just a single visual element in Glassmorphic style. Feel free to follow 6 simple steps I included in the tutorial — How to Create Glassmorphic Card UI Design. …

A UX case study on designing a children book website with a focus on curation, description, and a virtual book-keeper.

Timeline
2 weeks, team of 4

My Role
User and Competitive Research, UX, UI, Branding, Motion Design, User flow, Task Analysis, Information Architecture, Prototyping, and Presentation

Deliverables
1xWebsite prototype, 1x Client Presentation

*We are not affiliated with Readings in any way, shape or form. This was a conceptual project done as part of further learning with General Assembly*

Case Study Summary 📦

What we did

We were approached by Readings, a Melbourne based bookstore, who are seeking to expand their online services with the focus on children’s books. …

Presenting work is a really underrated skill, at all levels of our career.

It’s something that is central to the success of us landing our dream job, but we are mostly then left to our own devices when it comes to presenting projects internally to stakeholders who typically:

a) Lack project context
b) Are mostly non-designers
c) Care more about their own work
d) Don’t know why they are in the room

There are a few things we can do though to smooth over these cracks, and ensure that at every opportunity we’re maximising return.

Wouldn’t it be great if we left every meeting we have with tangible action points! …