This document provides guidelines for good user experience (UX) design when conducting a career search. It analyzes the career websites monster.com and usajobs.gov based on principles like using clear visual hierarchies, conventions, defined areas, and relating elements visually. Final thoughts emphasize considering relationships between content and design elements like shapes, fonts, and colors, as well as quotes about design being the product of thinking and the relationship between form and content.

1. This is a “Don’t Make Me
Think” career search
journey

2. First look for the following simple rules for
good UX design
• Clear visual hierarchy on each page
• Use conventions (headlines) because they insight familiarity
• Break pages up into clearly defined areas
• Minimal noise
• Identify which areas are for what
• Nest/Group things so that you can tell what is part of what
• Relate elements in a visually logical way

3. Vertical Analysis of monster.com
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4. And monster.com

5. Where am I? Where should I begin? Why did they call it that? What’s important on this page?
Where did they put __? Why did they call it that?

7. Vertical Analysis of usajobs.gov

10. Final Thoughts
Consider Relationships
1.
Between content and shapes
2.
Between content and fonts
3.
Between content and colors
Paul Rand Quotes
“The design is the product of your thinking”
“Design is the relationship between form and content”
“The process of designing is from complexity to simplicity”