The document provides an overview of careers in user experience (UX) design. It defines UX as encompassing a user's interaction with products and services. The document discusses the different roles in UX, including UX designers, user researchers, interaction designers, and information architects. It encourages the reader to consider a career in UX due to high job satisfaction and outlines steps to get hired, including developing a portfolio to showcase skills and past work.
UX 101: A quick & dirty introduction to user experience strategy & designMorgan McKeagney
A quick & dirty intro to UX strategy & design. Some context, some fundamentals, some current & emerging trends, and some useful resources for the absolute beginner.
First delivered @ the NDRC Launchpad startup accelerator in Dublin, Ireland, 16/10/2014. (www.ndrc.ie)
Your guide to picking the right User Interface (UI) and creating the best User Experience (UX) in just a short amount of time. Learn how to quickly create mockups, landing pages, and build mock integrations that turn into large ideas.
Have more questions about UX/UI? Contact mvp@koombea.com for additional information or questions and we will get back to you shortly.
A brief introduction to User Experience (UX) Research (in English and Bahasa Indonesia). This lecture was delivered on 19th February 2019 at Ciputra University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
UX 101: A quick & dirty introduction to user experience strategy & designMorgan McKeagney
A quick & dirty intro to UX strategy & design. Some context, some fundamentals, some current & emerging trends, and some useful resources for the absolute beginner.
First delivered @ the NDRC Launchpad startup accelerator in Dublin, Ireland, 16/10/2014. (www.ndrc.ie)
Your guide to picking the right User Interface (UI) and creating the best User Experience (UX) in just a short amount of time. Learn how to quickly create mockups, landing pages, and build mock integrations that turn into large ideas.
Have more questions about UX/UI? Contact mvp@koombea.com for additional information or questions and we will get back to you shortly.
A brief introduction to User Experience (UX) Research (in English and Bahasa Indonesia). This lecture was delivered on 19th February 2019 at Ciputra University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
This was a presentation done for a basics of UI/UX for basecode.
For more informaton, you can reach out to me on
Aroyewun Babajide
aroyewunbabajide@gmail.com
https://twitter.com/damaroy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aroyewunbabajide/
https://www.behance.net/damaroy
A presentation on UX Experience Design: Processes and Strategy by Dr Khong Chee Weng from Multimedia University at the UX Indonesia-Malaysia 2014 that was conducted on the 26th April 2014 in the Hotel Bidakara, Jakarta, Indonesia.
UI UX design and product design is a course that leads you to a good career. To be a good UI UX designer, a person needs to be creative and a good design thinker. UI UX design is a non code design career where you just need to do research and design a good perfect one.
You can even choose this as your career guide and project topic for computer science students.
UX is omnipresent nowadays and will grow more and more the tool of innovation. Companies are becoming aware of the vitality of adopting this technology from the start. The Importance of UX is a presentation of how we as a UX Design Team implement UX in projects.
This presentation is an introduction to the fields of User Experience and User Interface design that I created for a Google Hangout talk for Saigon CoWorkshop.
An introduction to UX - User Experience.
Where does UX come from, what are the benefits of using it, and how can it be applied to day to day agency work?
Understanding the User Centred Design process and how UX is an integral part of every piece of digital work that is produced.
In the modern day when people develop hundreds of software applications, websites or mobile apps the term UX (User Experience) is getting more and more significant, particularly in the IT industry.
Design and its fundamental process have changed with time, growing challenges among the users, devices and different platforms for UI and UX process.
In Design Fundamentals, a day-long thorough workshop, we will try to understand the fundamentals of UI and UX process, and follow the standard process and approaches to create a user-centric design. With basic Design Principles as the the backbone for our design, of course!
Best Practice For UX Deliverables - Eventhandler, London, 05 March 2014Anna Dahlström
TAKE THIS WORKSHOP ONLINE & GET 20% OFF WITH CODE 'SLIDESHARE'
https://school.uxfika.co/p/best-practice-for-ux-deliverables/?product_id=325265&coupon_code=SLIDESHARE
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Slides from my 'Best practice for UX deliverables' workshop that I ran for Eventhandler in London on the 05th of March 2014.
http://www.eventhandler.co.uk/events/uxnightclass-uxdeliverables3
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Please note that for copyright reasons & client privacy the examples in this presentation are slightly different than from the workshop. The examples included are for reference only in terms of what I talked through in the 'Good examples' section.
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ABSTRACT
Whilst the work we do is not meant to be hanged on a wall for people to admire, nor is meant to be put in a drawer and forgotten about. Just as we make the products and services we design easy to use, the UX of UX is about communicating your thinking in a way that ensures that what you've defined is easy to understand for the reader. It's about adapting the work you do to the project in question and finding the right balance of making people want to look through your work whilst not spending unnecessary time on making it pretty.
Who is it for?
This workshop is suitable for anyone starting out in UX, or who's worked with it for a while but is looking to improve the way they present their work.
What you'll learn
In this hands on workshop we'll walk through real life examples of why the UX of UX deliverables matter. We'll cover how who the reader is effects the way we should present our work, both on paper and verbally, and how to ensure that the work you do adds value. Coming out of the workshop you'll have practical examples and hands on experience with:
// How to adapt and sell your UX deliverable to the reader (from clients, your team, in house and outsourced developers)
// Guiding principles for creating good UX deliverables (both low and high fidelity)
// Best practice for presentations, personas, user journeys, flows, sitemaps, wireframes and other documents
// Simple, low effort but big impact tools for improving the visual presentation of your UX deliverables
This keynote opened the first UX Camp in Melbourne on November 2023. The talk addressed three key themes that have caused concern and anxiety in the practice of UX in recent years: growth of product management, recent redundancies, and the rise of Gen AI. The purpose of the talk was to alleviate these concerns, and inspire the audience in continue to pursue a career in UX.
Working with frog's UX experts, Melinda curated, collated and edited the GE User Experience Playbook for all those charged with designing GE products and services.
We’ve all had discussions about the great ‘UX’ of a product, or the poor ‘UI’ of a website. Is it a secret language you will never be lucky to know more about it?
Actually, it is very simple, For example: While User Experience is a bunch of tasks focused on optimization of a product for effective and enjoyable use; User Interface Design is its complement, the look and spirit, the presentation and interactivity of a product.
Designing for Customer needs: A UX PerspectiveRichard O'Brien
A brief 20 min talk I gave to the Head Start meetup (@HeadStartAus), introducing some Lean techniques to help them consider the customer throughout the product & biz development process.
An intro to what people (and myself) think UX is. Also who is "doing" UX and how you can do it better. Originally presented at Product Camp Nashville - Sep 2018
This was a presentation done for a basics of UI/UX for basecode.
For more informaton, you can reach out to me on
Aroyewun Babajide
aroyewunbabajide@gmail.com
https://twitter.com/damaroy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aroyewunbabajide/
https://www.behance.net/damaroy
A presentation on UX Experience Design: Processes and Strategy by Dr Khong Chee Weng from Multimedia University at the UX Indonesia-Malaysia 2014 that was conducted on the 26th April 2014 in the Hotel Bidakara, Jakarta, Indonesia.
UI UX design and product design is a course that leads you to a good career. To be a good UI UX designer, a person needs to be creative and a good design thinker. UI UX design is a non code design career where you just need to do research and design a good perfect one.
You can even choose this as your career guide and project topic for computer science students.
UX is omnipresent nowadays and will grow more and more the tool of innovation. Companies are becoming aware of the vitality of adopting this technology from the start. The Importance of UX is a presentation of how we as a UX Design Team implement UX in projects.
This presentation is an introduction to the fields of User Experience and User Interface design that I created for a Google Hangout talk for Saigon CoWorkshop.
An introduction to UX - User Experience.
Where does UX come from, what are the benefits of using it, and how can it be applied to day to day agency work?
Understanding the User Centred Design process and how UX is an integral part of every piece of digital work that is produced.
In the modern day when people develop hundreds of software applications, websites or mobile apps the term UX (User Experience) is getting more and more significant, particularly in the IT industry.
Design and its fundamental process have changed with time, growing challenges among the users, devices and different platforms for UI and UX process.
In Design Fundamentals, a day-long thorough workshop, we will try to understand the fundamentals of UI and UX process, and follow the standard process and approaches to create a user-centric design. With basic Design Principles as the the backbone for our design, of course!
Best Practice For UX Deliverables - Eventhandler, London, 05 March 2014Anna Dahlström
TAKE THIS WORKSHOP ONLINE & GET 20% OFF WITH CODE 'SLIDESHARE'
https://school.uxfika.co/p/best-practice-for-ux-deliverables/?product_id=325265&coupon_code=SLIDESHARE
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Slides from my 'Best practice for UX deliverables' workshop that I ran for Eventhandler in London on the 05th of March 2014.
http://www.eventhandler.co.uk/events/uxnightclass-uxdeliverables3
---
Please note that for copyright reasons & client privacy the examples in this presentation are slightly different than from the workshop. The examples included are for reference only in terms of what I talked through in the 'Good examples' section.
-----
ABSTRACT
Whilst the work we do is not meant to be hanged on a wall for people to admire, nor is meant to be put in a drawer and forgotten about. Just as we make the products and services we design easy to use, the UX of UX is about communicating your thinking in a way that ensures that what you've defined is easy to understand for the reader. It's about adapting the work you do to the project in question and finding the right balance of making people want to look through your work whilst not spending unnecessary time on making it pretty.
Who is it for?
This workshop is suitable for anyone starting out in UX, or who's worked with it for a while but is looking to improve the way they present their work.
What you'll learn
In this hands on workshop we'll walk through real life examples of why the UX of UX deliverables matter. We'll cover how who the reader is effects the way we should present our work, both on paper and verbally, and how to ensure that the work you do adds value. Coming out of the workshop you'll have practical examples and hands on experience with:
// How to adapt and sell your UX deliverable to the reader (from clients, your team, in house and outsourced developers)
// Guiding principles for creating good UX deliverables (both low and high fidelity)
// Best practice for presentations, personas, user journeys, flows, sitemaps, wireframes and other documents
// Simple, low effort but big impact tools for improving the visual presentation of your UX deliverables
This keynote opened the first UX Camp in Melbourne on November 2023. The talk addressed three key themes that have caused concern and anxiety in the practice of UX in recent years: growth of product management, recent redundancies, and the rise of Gen AI. The purpose of the talk was to alleviate these concerns, and inspire the audience in continue to pursue a career in UX.
Working with frog's UX experts, Melinda curated, collated and edited the GE User Experience Playbook for all those charged with designing GE products and services.
We’ve all had discussions about the great ‘UX’ of a product, or the poor ‘UI’ of a website. Is it a secret language you will never be lucky to know more about it?
Actually, it is very simple, For example: While User Experience is a bunch of tasks focused on optimization of a product for effective and enjoyable use; User Interface Design is its complement, the look and spirit, the presentation and interactivity of a product.
Designing for Customer needs: A UX PerspectiveRichard O'Brien
A brief 20 min talk I gave to the Head Start meetup (@HeadStartAus), introducing some Lean techniques to help them consider the customer throughout the product & biz development process.
An intro to what people (and myself) think UX is. Also who is "doing" UX and how you can do it better. Originally presented at Product Camp Nashville - Sep 2018
Going from Here to There: Transitioning into a UX Careerdpanarelli
A lot of people are curious about transitioning into the field of User Experience Design (UX). In this talk, I talk about a few different ways that you can transition into a UX career, be it grad school, night classes, or the ol' school of hard knocks, backed up by case studies. This talk was given at NoVA UX Meetup in the offices of AddThis, hosted by organizer Jim Lane.
UI/UX Designer in the year 2020 | Developers Day Nov.19Lena Lekkou
What it's like to be a designer in the current year, what difficulties we all face and what soft skills everyone should invest in the following years so that they become future-proof in their discipline.
This deck covers:
What is user experience design?
How lean concepts changed our approach to UXD
How to begin a successful UX project
How to implement user research to get actionable insight
My keynote from the UX South Africa 2014 conference in Cape Town, South Africa
It's a look at the state of play including:
- It's still easy to find poor website UX in South Africa
- Informing digital strategy by making and launching things
- Problems that executives of traditionally non-digital companies face as software slowly eats the word - and some solutions: Proactive research, digital product management, agile...
- Some of the skills and talents that unicorn UX designers need to have
User Experience Design: The Past, The Present, The FutureCharbel Zeaiter
In our mostly true exploration of the history of UX and the current space we're in, we look to how UX Designers will be called upon in the future to create experiences that matter.
Here are the slides from the UX Portfolio Workshop I did at exploreUX on 4/22/14. The workshop was part presentation and part activities to get participants in the right mindset for creating their UX portfolios.
The slides go into the specifics on:
• What to put in your UX portfolio
• How to figure out what (of your stuff) to include
• How to add what you’re missing
• What tools and resources to use in building it
• What’s a good (and bad) portfolio
User Experience Design + Agile: The Good, The Bad, and the UglyJoshua Randall
There's a rumor going around that user experience design (UXD) and Agile don't play well together. In this talk, I'll explain that they do -- most of the time! Learn about the historical reasons for why these two disciplines sometimes butt heads, as well as the good/bad/ugly of various approaches to integrating design and development.
An overview of how UX Research is conducted in entrepreneurial Lean UX organizations. Principles and practices of Lean/Agile UX teams in high-tech, mostly Silicon Valley, settings.
Presented by Susan Wilhite to startupUCLA, an accelerator for UCLA students, on June 7, 2012 on the campus. Watch the startupUCLA web site for a video of the live presentation.
Do you ever wish there was a formula you could use to improve your audiovisual design for the people who use it? Well, there is!
In this talk I’ll introduce you to Human-centered Design, a framework for identifying and designing solutions for the people who use your products. You’ll learn how this approach can be leveraged to create solutions that resonate with your users, drive engagement and adoption, and ultimately deliver more meaningful experiences.
Human-centered Design is a design process that puts the user experience at the center of your design decisions. This framework includes tools to help you understand your users’ needs, generate ideas on how to solve them, test out prototypes of your solution with the people you’re designing for, and eventually get your innovative product out into the world.
Welcome to management - Learning how to lead your first UX research team Rebecca Destello
You’ve spent years honing your craft as a researcher and in recognition of your hard work, you’ve been promoted to lead a team of your very own! Welcome to management, now what?
UX management is fulfilling, but is not a direct next step from being a strong UX practitioner. Your UX projects didn’t prepare you for all the paperwork! Or taking disciplinary action! Or the myriad of other responsibilities that arise when your priority is to help others succeed.
Whether you are a new leader inheriting a team or building one from scratch, or aspiring to be one, come to this session to learn what you need to make the leap from individual contributor to team leader and while keeping your sanity (mostly) in check.
Now that you know how to plan for and construct bullet-proof usability script, take your experience to the next level - learn how to be an effective moderator!
Witness wednesdays informing agile software development with continuous user...Rebecca Destello
In the startup world speed to market is everything.
This talk covers how it is possible to embed user insights into a rapid software development cycle by conducting usability studies that break the stereotype that "research takes too long."
Justin Marx and Rebecca Destello illustrate how to plan, conduct, analyze and inform development sprints in just one week with what famously became known as "Witness Wednesdays."
Justin Marx, Product Designer and Rebecca Destello, Manager, Research & Insights - both with Atlas Informatics.
When you need to bring along the product team for help on a guerilla usability study, this is a quick intro to their role in the study and how to be a good facilitator.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
3. U…what…?
What is User Experience (UX)?
“User experience
encompasses all aspects of
the end-user’s interaction
with the company, its
services, and its products.
- Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/definition-user-experience/
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4. U…what…?
“User experience is the totality of the
effect(s) felt by a user as a result of
interaction with… a system, device, or
product, including the influence of
usability, usefulness, and emotional
impact during interaction, and savoring
the memory after interaction.
- Hartson and Pyla
PPeeoopplele
uussiningg
technolog
y (mostly)
technolog
y (mostly)
& how it
makes
them feel
& how it
makes
them feel
With credit to Emma Rose, PhD
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6. Why you should be interested
in a career in UX
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7. Why not?
High satisfaction: Most UX professionals love what they
do, because their work is fulfilling and the jobs pay well.
You might be a UX person if ...
You love good design
You like to organize things
You’re the one who always spots the bugs in software
or typos on the restaurant menu
You are a life long learner
You are a people person
Source: User Experience Careers Report by Farrell and Nielsen
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11. Architectural vs. UX Roles
Adapted from http://www.slideshare.net/rwinzenburg/ux-roles-and-job-titles
Surveyor Move Planner &
Closet Organizer
Interior
Designer
Drywaller &
Brick Layer
Plumber &
Electrician
Architect
User
Researcher
Interaction
Designer
Information
Architect
User Interface
Designer
Front End
Developer
Back End
Developer
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12. UX Roles explained
Interaction
Designer
•Interviewing
•Wireframe
•Prototypes
•Work Flow (usability)
•Excel
•Silverback, Captcha
•Omnigraffle, Visio
•InDesign, Axure
•Fireworks, HTML
Information
Architect
•Content Inventory
•Card Sorting
•Labeling
•Navigation
•Thesauri
•Search
•Controlled
Vocabulary
•Excel
•Optimal Sort
User Interface
Designer
•Design Principles
•Usability
•Typography
•HTML/CSS
•Photoshop
•Illustrator
•Fireworks
•JQuery
Front End
Developer
•HTML
•CSS
•JQuery
•JavaScript
•Flash/Flex
•ActionScript
User
Researcher
•Field studies
•Personas
•Observation
•Focus groups
•Usability testing
•Morae
•Ovo Studios
•Excel
•Word
•SPSS
•PowerPoint
UX Designer Interactive Designer
Adapted from http://www.slideshare.net/rwinzenburg/ux-roles-and-job-titles
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13. 2 common roles
User
Researcher
UX
Designer
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14. UX Designer
Job titles
UX designer, UX architect,
interaction designer (IxD), UI
designer, information architect,
visual designer
Must be good with
Creating solid design from fuzzy
ideas, keeping up with current
trends, thinking outside the box,
creative thinking, color theory,
design theory
User Experience
Designer
UUXX UUnniiccoorrnn!!!!
+ extra points if you understand
code and usability
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15. User Researcher
Job titles
UX researcher, user researcher, usability
analyst, usability specialist, UX tester,
UX consultant
Must be good with
Making people feel at ease, interviewing,
listening, analysis, collecting loads of
information and distilling it into
meaningful data, public speaking
User
Researcher
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UUXX PPeeggaassuuss!!!!
+ extra points if you
understand
design theory
17. Get hired
If you’re not sure what you want to do – apply for what
interests you and learn more through interviewing.
Specialize, but don’t pigeon hole yourself.
Consider contract or freelance work to gain experience.
Use an agency.
Have a portfolio.
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18. “The purpose of a portfolio is to create a sense of personal
ownership over one's accomplishments, because ownership
engenders feelings of pride, responsibility, and dedication.”
- Paris, S & Ayres, L. (1994) Becoming Reflective
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19. First, a note about portfolio types
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20. There are 2 types of portfolios
Website vs. Deck
Website portfolios are good for
• Lots of projects
• Show ALL of your work in one place
• Representing yourself online
PPT decks are good for
• One or two projects
• Talk about one or two projects in depth
• Representing yourself during an interview
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21. This one’s about deck portfolios
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22. Deck portfolios
Your portfolio should be simple. Forget fancy
transitions and layouts - focus on storytelling.
Must haves
Your name
A tagline (what you do)
Past work examples (details about the project,
what it looked like before and after,
challenges, and what your role was)
A list of your skills
An “About Me” page with a way to contact you
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24. S.O.A.R.
SOAR is a handy formula for discussing your accomplishments.
Situation: What challenge were you faced with?
Objective: What did you hope to accomplish?
Action: What action(s) did you take?
Result: What resulted from your action(s)?
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25. S.O.A.R. example
Situation
It was breakfast time and there was no cereal in the house.
Objective
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, therefore it is important
to eat something before going to school.
Action
After investigating around the kitchen, I was able to combine cooked
oats, raisins, cashews, and a little bit of honey to create a healthy
alternative
to cereal.
Result
By combining these ingredients with milk, I was able to create a
new breakfast meal that helped me make it through the day.
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26. “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people
will forget what you did, but people will never forget how
you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou
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27. Deck portfolio tips
• Read the book "Presentation Zen” by Reynolds & Duarte.
• Having a meter on every slide that shows where you are in
the presentation (to give a sense of progress).
• Have an agenda slide. People should know what to expect.
• Don't use slide transitions (aka: strip tease presentation).
• Always practice with a friend beforehand.
• Give credit where credit is due. Be explicit about your
participation in projects and of what you accomplished.
• End with your contact info.
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28. Public Speaking 101
• Make eye contact.
• Don't fidget, stand straight, comfortable, and
professional.
• Speak slowly at a normal volume.
• Always stop to ask if anyone has questions.
• Know your material. Don't just read the screen.
• Don't be afraid to let your personality come through.
• SMILE! Remember, you love doing UX work!
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29. Network!
Join special interest groups, get memberships, go to
conferences, attend meetups, join LinkedIn
(www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccadestello)
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30. Examples
A few deck portfolio examples…
UX Designers
• brynnevans.com/files/portfolio.pdf
• laura-simpson.com/wp-content/
uploads/2012/06/lsimpson_UXportfolio20121.pdf
UX Researchers
• userpages.umbc.edu/~huijuan1/file/HuijuanWu_Portfolio.p
df
• mukeshnathan.net/assets/nathan-portfolio.pdf
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